Ming Chen

Ming Chen: senior corporate executive

What are you reading?

Ernest Hemingway's A Move-able Feast, a collection of short stories the American novelist and Nobel Prize winner wrote about his time as a young starving writer in Paris during the 1920s. Great summer read as it transports you to Paris between the two world wars, when Hemingway befriend-ed a number of important Western writers, poets, artists who Gertrude Stein called "the Lost Generation" like Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford and James Joyce.

Do you prefer paper books or e-books?

Paper. I prefer "real" books because I like to hold them in my hand, and turn pages and know how many pages are left. Also, I use my Black Berry and iPad for work so much that I would rather put them away and just have a pure-reading experience that is not linked to my day job.

Who is your favorite writer this year?

I love reading so it's hard to say "favorite of the year". I love Wallace Stegner, an American fiction writer. This past month, I read all three of the Divergent series written by Veronica Roth, a best-selling young-adult series about a dystopian society. It's not as good as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins but it's still OK.

How much time do you spend reading every day, every week?

Probably about six hours a week of fiction and nonfiction books. And then regular reading (news-papers, magazines, etc) another six.

Do you bring a book when you travel?

Always.

If you had a free evening, would you read a book, or watch a movie or TV?

Read a book or watch an episode of Foyle's War for the fifth time (yes, the series is that good! )