Status Updates From Taipei Story

I love when I'm 25% into a book and I still don't know anything about the main character :D

"She was not impossible. She could have been."

"History mangled everyone. We weren't the only ones cursed. And my personal tragedy derived not from the fact that it had happened but the fact that no one had thought to include me in the story--a child's indignatiom that this was not all about me."

"Stop counting down the minutes. Ask for the words you don't know. Use your phone. Use your bad grammar. Be stupid, slow, and inadequate. Just be here."

"We couldn't defend our antipathy. We loved our grandparents; we had only the fondest memories of them. We just couldn't bear the static."

"We had revealed too much about how circumstances made us feel, and now we had to kill ourselves."

Just when I get my "in-progress" book count down, I add more to the pile. Oh well, I am what I am :D

this might be her first miss for me 🫣

LMAO I know a girl exactly like Anna, Kuang captured the essence of this kind of person perfectly!

Less than half of book to go and only now what was promised comes into play. Curiouser and curiouser!

"We had revealed too much about how circumstances made us feel, and now we had to kill ourselves." This is a funny line but it doesn't do anything for the paragraph it's in and doesn't fit into the text it's in neither. I would send four laughing emojis to a friend if they sent me a screenshot of this as a tweet though. This is how most of the book is going so far, it's all quite boring and empty!

This is v odd, I DNF Kuang's last novel because I didn't click with the plot and style, but it at least sounded like it was written by the same Kuang who wrote Babel while trying something different, but this novel doesn't sound anything like her, it's as if she wasn't in the room when this was written, what is this????

yo is anyone else reading this rn?

I just feel so smart and literate rn

"You all seem very attentive, very diligent.”
We beamed. We were, at the end of the day, good immigrant daughters.