Pint of Purple: Ann Yip, News Editor

What book are you reading at the moment?

Ha, I rarely have any time for reading. Reading? What reading? The last book I read over Christmas was Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson. It is a great book, but very dark and violent. The novel is about Tan-Tan, the mayor’s daughter who is ‘kidnapped’ or unknowingly follows her father into exile. Then things spiral into ‘what the fuck?!’

Who is your favourite literary character?

Emma Woodhouse from Jane Austen’s Emma: “ Handsome, rich and clever, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition”. She is such a fun character who is haughty, full of attitude, and unromantic, or even anti-romantic. But then again, she can be a bit ‘bitchy’.

What is the first book you remember reading?

When I was five, I read the easy-to-read versions of David Copperfield and Great Expectations. I loved following David’s and Pip’s stories and I would read the books over and over again. Another of my favourites was my first-ever visual HTML book for my ninth birthday. I absolutely adored it to bits as I was in love with website interaction and platforms.

What is your all-time favourite book?

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Heathcliff was the tragic demented villain that you could relate to and sympathise with. It is such a beautiful novel showing the distorted side of passion. Cathy was a little hopeless. And all the characters who bullied poor little Heathcliff!

If you wrote an autobiography, what would be the title?

I’m not Hipster, I’m just a middle-class girl pretending to be Ghetto.

Kindle vs. book?

I’m a traveler, so I know the importance of having a Kindle. If the course text is not on Kindle, I might not even read it! I am also a minimalist in a sense. I hate having too much stuff and too many things to bring around. I am that annoying Literature student who tries to get rid of all her books at the end of the year. I prefer the reading experience of a hard copy, but my modern practicality says Kindle.

How much is a pint of purple?

It’s only £1.5 in the Copper Rooms, but it’s something like £2 at the Terrace Bar and Bar Fusion? I don’t buy a pint of purple on its own anyway.

Image Credits: Header (Flickr/tout_moi), Image 1 (Flickr/Pamela), Image 2 (Flickr/smOK1nggnu)