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LAST ONE

sorry keith p feldman im sprinting for my life

love it honestly think this will push me into gamer girl era

went from the worst rec of my life (prev book) to the best rec of my life (this one)

not to be dramatic but you ever experience the devastating, intimate, incredible feeling of reading something meant exactly for you

it's so interesting and actually hilarious hearing sang young park's voice + anton hur's translation specifically to american english, and attuned to queer culture (as opposed to other korean translators who do it to british english). the taste in pop girls!!

this is SO fun sang young park im saluting you

not me projecting onto bao

yes i will be making everyone i know read this and talk to me abt it

i just wanna say i hate minor feelings by cathy park hong. admittedly only read 2 essays, but feels slightly racist against me. the HOLD this book has on asian americans.........

anthony veasna so: "[I have a] fuck-boy approach to literature...I actually recommend everyone to stop taking books so seriously, so monogamously, as though the price of hardcovers were only justified through the number of titles logged into Goodreads. Never have I been more productive as a lover of prose."

basically goodreads challenge over fuckboy reading my new best friend

i do it for angela

every december without fail i frantically charge thru books even though absolutely no one cares if i finish this fucking challenge or not

charles yu is like i am going to be an asian man who is so self-aware

ok i think charles yu got me....

is this...the only academic book?? is saidiya hartman the Only good academic writer to exist??

EVERYONE SHUT UP I FINALLY GOT THIS

ok actually for some of these i'm like yes u are a straight man lol but others bang

dude was rly wild for this one now im trying to be a translator fiction writer reinventing my history for the ppl

i read the titular story and was like hey what the fuck no one told me ken liu bangs so now gotta commit to the rest of it

wah im depressed

wanted 2 read this for a long time and i have the skills! lets see why dương thu hương literally got exiled for this book