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Finished The Litigation Master and The Monkey King : I was not aware of An Account of Ten Days at Yangzhou and the repression and erasure of history. It’s still very relevant in this day and age where it’s still happening and peoples pasts are being rewritten by those who “won”.

Finished A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel: as always with Ken Liu, I was lulled into a false solace that this would be a regular dystopian short story. However, he has managed to make the characters feel so real and the underlying emotions and tensions between racial and social divides and how the main character has forced himself to become numb to these in order to survive.

Just crying in bed at 1am, nbd. I'm fine, it's fine.

Good Hunting - 5/10. Fellas...I have seen the metaphor of "man overtakes magic" a hundred times before. Well done but I am not very interested in these characters.

The Perfect Match - 2/10. Ever read a story with a political message that you 100% agree with? Now have that be the most smug thing you've ever read to the point you hate it. That's this story. Yes phones and algorithms are eroding our culture, but I HATED how it just said it outright. There is no nuance, just evil corporation ruins world. Yes it's happening, but it doesn't say anything interesting.

Im tired of scifi