Though the story that seems closest to Yellowface is the one surrounding Kristen Roupenian’s short story Cat Person (you can read it here). The main character is a depiction of mild mannered racist individuals who shroud themselves in acceptance as long as it doesn't affect them and balk at the idea of racism until directly faced with equality and the loss of superiority it gives them. it was very heavy-handed, and pretty self-indulgent, but i love three things in this life and those are mean girls, and b*tching with my friends, and books, and this was all three of them in one.

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Like she is pointing toward the book community, head cocked to the side, cheekily winking in our shared knowledge of their ridiculousness. If your ears perked up at horror story, there are some horror elements late in the novel (though perhaps not enough and it could have been threaded in longer, if I have one complaint it is that the novels episodic feel never quite let individual elements breathe enough and makes the last portion feel a bit like going one step more than needed instead of flowing from the book which would have sidestepped that feeling?it was like that trope that seems for some reason very exclusive to the mid-2000s in which people have the worst day of their lives are doomed to relive it, or die and go to purgatory or something like that enjoyed a specific renaissance in spirit in this book.

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Overall, this realistic and thrilling read left me feeling anxious and evoked a multitude of emotions including fear, hate, and sadness.It also speaks to a certain lack of, perhaps, awareness by Rebecca about how publishing classifies books. Over the summer in Taipei, I spent a lot of time wandering into the National Concert Hall and sitting in for whatever classical music programming they had on for the night.

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that is not me putting personal attack on the author, the author's identity, the subject matter itself, or any readers who enjoyed the book or their identities. But Juniper still basks in the glow of success – at least until Twitter raises its collective eyebrow and she’s mired in an ever-widening plagiarism scandal. I texted a friend afterwards that this film, based on the novel Le otto montagne by Paolo Cognetti, was “Elena Ferrante, but for the boys”. June is left with her only friend’s corpse and the first draft of Athena’s latest manuscript, which no one but her knows about. babel may not have been a book that i loved but i can still acknowledge and appreciate it, i was worried when i didn’t enjoy that, that i might just need a break from this author but boy was i wrong omg.

Yes, at times it makes its point bluntly/crudely and in an obvious way, though through this satire Kuang raises deeper questions too, such as whether anyone can remain truly ethical or generous in a brutally capitalist publishing industry. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. They did a breathtaking version of Danny Boy in which the accordion imitated the rushing wind, and the cello imitated birds chirping.