Mark Zhang (mzhang319) (Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan)'s Recent Status Updates Showing 1-30 of 205

Mark Zhang is 30% done with One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

— Jun 28, 2026 01:47AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 10% done with Blood of Elves

— Jun 05, 2026 09:39PM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 70% done with Passchendaele: A New History

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Mark Zhang is 25% done with The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Crazy to realize how little I understood about the Palestine-Israel war’s origin, despite being bombarded by media coverage on the subject. A modern colonial war.

— May 19, 2026 11:25PM Add a comment

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Mark Zhang is 30% done with Passchendaele: A New History

— Apr 20, 2026 11:06PM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 25% done with The Stranger

Anon is struggling to cope with his grief

— Feb 22, 2026 06:13AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 80% done with Arabian Sands

Two crossings of the Empty Quarter!

— Feb 16, 2026 12:20AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 50% done with Arabian Sands

Return through the empty quarter!

— Feb 11, 2026 10:17AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 5% done with The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1

Night by night with Frannie :-)

— Jan 26, 2026 04:24AM Add a comment

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1

Mark Zhang is 75% done with One Hundred Years of Solitude

Losing track of the number of Aurelianos, Jose Arcadios, and Remedioses 🥴

— Jan 26, 2026 04:23AM Add a comment

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Goals for the Month of January:

100 Years of Solitude
Masters of the Air
Confessions of St. Augustine

May or may not make progress with Dostoevsky (really want to get time for a chunk of Brothers)

Finish my SWO Engineering qual 🥴

— Jan 15, 2026 03:45AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 45% done with One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Mark Zhang is 25% done with Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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Mark Zhang is 20% done with Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

— Jan 11, 2026 03:45AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 40% done with House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

The reign of Phillip Augustus!

— Jan 01, 2026 03:28AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 20% done with House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

Plantagenets vs Capetians

— Dec 21, 2025 02:37AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 15% done with House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

— Dec 09, 2025 07:54PM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 95% done with The New Testament (King James Version)

On to Revelations

— Dec 09, 2025 07:54PM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 75% done with The Grapes of Wrath

— Dec 09, 2025 02:57AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 20% done with Arabian Sands

Brought my paperback with me to Japan this time! So refreshing to read Thesiger. I love the world and I love his wanderlust.

— Dec 07, 2025 11:43PM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 25% done with The Grapes of Wrath

Seamus I am once again renewing my fealty to Steinbeck. Also I hate the banks!

— Nov 30, 2025 04:28AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 15% done with Anger, Mercy, Revenge (De Ira, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis)

Commute book for when I don’t have my paperback Dostoevsky. Seneca is still as helpful as I found him years ago (maybe little character development on my part?).

— Nov 16, 2025 10:37PM Add a comment

Anger, Mercy, Revenge (De Ira, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis)

Mark Zhang is 25% done with The Sound of Waves

I love love stories

— Nov 15, 2025 01:42AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 15% done with The Sound of Waves

— Nov 14, 2025 10:07AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 5% done with The Brothers Karamazov

Bratja! Oh Brothers! Honestly have a lot of high hopes for this one - everyone I’ve talked to has hyped up Brothers Karamazov.

— Nov 11, 2025 06:31AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 40% done with Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

A hit of nostalgia - revisiting the streets of Novigrad ( memories of 2019 winter vacation and playing Witcher).

I can’t remember why I didn’t continue the series after Last Wish but gosh it’s different to read good fantasy.

— Nov 11, 2025 06:28AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 25% done with Selected Poetry

He was filled with faith and love
Faithful to his soul’s ideal
Blazoned AVE, MATER DEI
In his blood upon his shield

— Oct 26, 2025 04:46AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 85% done with The New Testament (King James Version)

To live is Christ, and to die is gain

Paul’s letters!

— Oct 25, 2025 06:37AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 75% done with The Idiot

Ippolitcore - bro just didn't live long enough to experience the joys of doomscrolling ans situationships. Oh Ippolit you would've loved 2025

— Oct 08, 2025 01:22AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang is 50% done with The Idiot

Catching up on my readings between 05:30 space walkthroughs and being dismissed at 23:00… incidentally not really having much to do from 1200 onwards.

Turns out Nepo baby got an inheritance and people started to like him and then others tried to scam him. Messy love triangle but if I were rich like that I’d also shoot my shot with the kept woman fr

— Sep 23, 2025 01:36AM Add a comment

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