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hii i moved to storygraph :) add me @ grocerystore!!

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hi hi i haven’t been on goodreads for a while lol i think i’ll update it properly tmr!!!

many thoughts on running away from (or repressing, or detaching oneself from) trauma (i.e. slavery) because running & having had to run was the trauma. i think this’ll be another 5 star read

this is about to be so insufferably orientalist but i’m also obsessed w/ supayalat so.

man this hits a bit too close to home lmao

thank you mark of burfee dot tumblr dot com fame for recommending me this. i love you

progress update just for my favorite quote from the second half because holy shit. ‘i tried to ask my parents to leave the room, but not my life. it was very hard. because the room was the size of my life. because my life was small. & wanted to eat candy corn instead of confrontation. raising one’s voice in a small space felt at once godlike and childish.’ ????

"In New York we read Darwish, we write broken sonnets finally forgiving the Broken English of Our Mothers, we eat pork & chive dumplings, & I know, it’s such a 90s fantasy of multiculturalism that I am rehashing, bust still, in New York I feel I can tell you how my mother & I used to make dumplings together, like a scene out of The Joy Luck Club." chen chen i swear to god

rlly enjoying this one so far!! the translator did a great job

finally rereading a dnf from last year! hopefully i can finish it?

i’m in my classics era again i suppose 😮‍💨

a very promising read so far!! haven’t touched this book in three weeks because of work and school but i’m back 👍🏽

abandonment issues!

i think hannibal would get along well with the narrator (at least at the very beginning) 🤔 ‘cruelty and mercy are one and the same. existence in this world relegates good and evil to the same status. cruelty and evil are only natural, and together they are endowed with half the power and half the utility in this world’ wow okay lesbian dr lecter i love you already

we’re starting this one of with a bang! homophobia, baby!!
“… but he’s gay so he’s got no children to look after him, which she thinks is one of the sad things about being that way, when you get older and there’s no kids to look out for you. yes, gay isn’t the right word, i sadly concur.” huh what