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starting my dear friend Kristin’s book!!!!

second hanif abdurraqib book and this time I’m reading it for a man … but not complaining bc it’s another hanif book!!

DNF I’m sorry despite some good poems I can’t take this seriously for some reason

I’m very late to the game

ITS YUCKY SEASON

Save me transcendent kingdom ur my only hope

It’s reread season

only 2 chapters in and already can tell this is what little rabbit wishes it could be

Uh oh

third annual IDIOT reread

MANDATED REREAD

CREEPY ATMOSPHERE is all I can say..

The wintery af cover got me

let’s see if I can finish before it returns to the library

successfully getting me out of reading rut

am writing grad school app essay on this notoriously hard to understand book ha ha. so far I’m about halfway and it’s made me feel immensely sad but I also cannot understand it. The power of
Words fr

OH H*CK YEAH

FINALLY coming back to this

give me something Sigrid Nunez!!! also reading this bc it’s literally due today lol

reread for my first and last Cambridge summer

@EMILY I GAVE IN I BOUGHT IT 😭😭

this book is a wonder truly

no wonder he and Hua Hsu are friends lol

reading too many books at once again BUT shoutout the CPL central branch for having this one

Guys… It is romcom season

geeking at the California Asian American Berkeley subculture LMAO

this year’s most anticipated

a serendipitous moment finding this for $7 at eastwind books, and opening it to find it puts words to my experiences, brings context to my family history, and gives validity to my Big Questions

starting this to find words to my asian girlie in tech arc… & to get inspo for my future novel (/satire/exposé?)😈

laufey book club read it so I have to now