Most of what I have been writing about over the last several months has focused on trauma and various authors’ ways of making sense of whatever event they experienced, whether that be assault, abuse, or examples of historical violence. This focus may seem like a surprise for some of you but, as I have mentioned […]
I first picked up Esmé Weijun Wang‘s The Border of Paradise earlier in the summer as a sample on Kindle and was immediately struck by her writing style. However, as is my habit, I set it aside for other books in my reading queue and didn’t actually read it until now. In some ways I’m glad that I […]
I mentioned on my Instagram a few months ago that I have very little experience reading Japanese-American literature, particularly when it comes to texts focusing on what it was like being Japanese during WWII. Aside from the classic No-No Boy by John Okada, which was assigned during one of my undergrad classes, I hadn’t picked up any […]
The last month or so has been an influx of good writing and since the literary stars seemed to be in alignment, I wanted to keep up the good reading streak with a book that had been on my list for a long time: Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. Two of the biggest […]
I think that many of us approach medieval or premodern texts with some sort of a bias; either these texts feel so far removed from our daily lives that they are utterly uninteresting or else they are seen as gorgeous texts that provide a look into a dreamy, transcendent world that is pure aesthetic fiction. […]
Like The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen (which was my previous read), Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being was a book that I saw make the rounds online before I finally picked it up — the cover is absolutely stunning, so I can’t blame anyone on Instagram for showcasing it. I finished The Sympathizer sooner than I had anticipated, […]
One of my goals for 2018 is to be better about reading through the books I have lying around my home. Although I am pretty good about actually reading the books I accumulate, there are still a few books sitting on the shelf that I saw recently and couldn’t believe that I hadn’t read yet. […]
