Status Updates From Vogels op de wind

Having to look up the definition of Chinese words interspersed throughout the story is very distracting.
Don’t like the forward/backward timeline

“He wanted to hold on to this moment, or maybe what he wanted was to go back to an old moment, a moment before all the things they didn't talk about existed. Change something, somehow. … How he longed to live a synthesis of all the lives he had lived and not lived … ‘I'm greedy,’ he acknowledged out loud.

‘We don't get to be greedy," Suchi said. "We get to be content.’”

This is gonna be really good, oooh I’m excited

pretty low expectations for this one except hoping reading it fundamentally changes my molecular structure and at the same time remind me of ‘past lives’ but other than that, not expecting much