I wasn't planning to read the Harry Potter books for another ten years or so. But the other day Laura, who's seven and three quarters, started reading the first one to me and I'm hooked. We're on chapter three...
I am an English translator from Chinese, German and French. Between getting a B.A. in Chinese studies from Leeds University in England and M.A.s in Chinese history from Michigan and Harvard universities, I spent six years studying and working in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. I now make my home with my wife Véronique and daughter Laura in a small village in the Swiss Alps. This scrapbook is meant to help me remember, and if it amuses you, so much the better.