fuck my friend who recommended babel by rf kuang to me im literally always going to have these 4 (yes even the blonde bitch but for different reasons) babblers in my head forever. i feel like a drowned bee floating in an above ground pool. fucked up
+ some initial sketches of me just finding their faces and notes. might do a transcript, but truly the notes are just for me
You aren’t seriously jealous of yourself…
…are you?
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Oh Secret Crush/Puppet Dating Ortega route, we’re really in it now, aren’t we?
City of Last Chances • Adrian Tchaikovsky 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Brides of High Hill • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Traitor Baru Cormorant • Seth Dickinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔄🍷 Klara & the Sun • Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thornhedge • T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heavenly Tyrant • Xiran Jay Zhao ⭐️
🍷 Violeta • Isabel Allende ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍷 The Fox Wife • Yangsze Choo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Raven King • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔄 Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand • Gail Carson Levine 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Howl’s Moving Castle • Diana Wynne Jones 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🍷 James • Percival Everett 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Bloom • Delilah S. Dawson ⭐️
Sour Cherry • Natalia Theodoridou ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Besaydoo • Yalie Saweda Kamara ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📌🍷 The Frozen River • Ariel Lawhon
📌 The Monster Baru Cormorant • Seth Dickinson
📌 The Female Eunuch • Germaine Greer
Key:
📌 Currently reading
💀 DNF
🔄 Reread
🍷 For book club
in shock hearing people say that babel only takes a turn and becomes heart-wrenching at the end because that experience is so incomprehensible to my chinese diaspora ass that felt like their heart was being torn from their chest in the very first chapter likeeeee babel is underscored by such immense amounts of tragedy and loss and horror around colonialism and imperialism from the very beginning it's so crazy that white people can just read the first half of babel and not feel like every bone in their body was being dissolved in acid by the centuries of unspoken grief written in robin's experience SORRYYYYYYYY. average poc reading babel vs average white person reading babel truly LMFAOOOO
replying to coworker emails rn like do i sound weird. do i sound foolish. can they tell im in danger of surrendering to the house
the raven king was a rly fun book, genuinely scary in moments and had excellent beats for blue gansey ronan & adam, im so glad i finally read this series to the end 13 YEARS after starting it as a kid, but every time i think of a character who vanished from act 3 with zero follow-up or even a passing mention in the epilogue i take another half star away. where are my sweetie peas. artemus maura calla seondeok helen declan gwenllian mr gray laumonier i said where the FUCK are my FUCKING sweetie pees
Thinking about those ladies on the beach :’)
Amber Gris and Kodira are so wonderful
I've been rereading the broken earth trilogy and finally managed to nail down my Essun design