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Lisa Cai

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Lisa Cai is from Toronto, Canada. She graduated from York University with an Honours BA in History and a Master of Library and Information Science from Western University.

She has been published in Diabolical Plots, The Dark Magazine, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others.

When not reading or writing, she is probably wrangling with IT systems at a university, watching anime, taking a long walk, or solving crimes in Among Us.

2025 Reading Roundup

In 2025, I read 100 books. Below are works I’d like to highlight and recommend.

Fiction

The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim – I’ve been waiting for an unhinged horror story centered around an Asian woman and this book has delivered. The main character fights back against fetishization and stereotypes by taking revenge on behalf of herself and others who’ve been harmed by misogyny and racism.

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Toni Morrison
“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
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“This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!” Toni Morrison”
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James Baldwin
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”
James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985

J. Krishnamurti
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
J. Krishnamurti

Vincent van Gogh
“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”
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