KC Cui

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KC is Currently Reading

KC Cui is currently reading

On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

by Kim Bo-young

bookshelves: currently-reading, contemp-lit, fantasy-sci-fi, korea, short-fiction, women

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Nov 23, 2025 10:06PM

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The Secret Place

by Tana French (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: thriller, currently-reading

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"This is my current treadmill and subway reading material" — Oct 01, 2025 05:55PM

Oct 01, 2025 05:55PM

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Last Tales

by Isak Dinesen

bookshelves: currently-reading

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“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: flowers, love, roses

956 likes

“Hopper’s paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly toxic and strangulating with age.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

tags: art, artist, beauty, edward-hopper, gender

15 likes

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.”
― Joan Didion

82 likes