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It's been a long time since I've posted here... I think I should try to do that more often. My birthday just passed and I want to upload my gifts here, as well as my progress with my project (and how I started another sort of adorkable project, in which I'm doing both simultaneously). Will share soon!

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Coming out is not some rite of passage allowing you to finally be proud of yourself. Read that again. You should be proud of yourself because you have jumped into deep and unknown territory on a quest to explore who you are. It’s a journey we, sadly, often start alone. We feel lost. We are in the dark, with no one to guide us. On this quest, we face many challenges. We have to fight self-doubt, denial, fear, society, and monsters. It’s scary. Every day we have to find the strength to take a step closer to accepting ourselves in a world where many discourage us not to. It’s one heck of a quest. The journey you are on takes courage. And a lot of it. It’s hard. And that’s why I don’t want you to think that you need to be out to be proud. For real, please take a moment to realize this. You are on a journey most people will never have to endure. Don’t you see how strong you are? If you are not already telling yourself this, I will: Dear beautiful, brave soul; I am so proud of you. Continue your quest. You will make it. All of us have your back. You are not alone. Never forget this. Stay proud. ~ Roderick

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (review)

I'm not going to go really detailed in this but, The Book Thief was extremely addicting; finished it in three days! All in all, it's a total 'B' for me.

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Opalescent Operation | Some Talk?

I'm done with the first chapter - just a zero draft though. I want to keep posting on here often. I barely even go on social media - hashtagsonotlikeothergirls - but I want to be active on this one. Perhaps I'll place a jacket summary here later... though that still depends on how I'm feeling.

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Teehee

I'm done with the Six of Crows duology (actually, that was like two weeks ago) and now I'm endeavouring The Hunger Games Trilogy. I'm on the second book, (Catching Fire) and I realized that I have yet to determine a review for it. After that, I'll send on my initial thoughts about a week from now.

Disregarding what I'm reading, what about topics that I have yet—to read? I recently bought The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and after reading the first 30 pages, it's quite intriguing! After Hunger Games, The Book Thief, here I come!

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Reading Lists and Opalescent Operation Progress:

I'm done reading Six of Crows and thus, I shall endeavor Crooked Kingdom! After Crooked Kingdom, Hunger Games trilogy, here I come! Then after that, possibly Sharp Objects, or Kafka on the Shore. Considering Writing... Opalescent Operation has been great! I've been working on an outline for quite a while, and I'm on the final part of the book (the big reveal and such) I'll update on my blog if needed, for now, please enjoy, nonexistent audience!

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Opalescent Operation

I'm certainly making some progress in my book. In Opalescent Operation, it's certainly has been quite the ride!

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New Book?

Yes. Yes. I am a whore when it comes to creating books. I have yet to finish the outline, but let's just say, it's going quite well. I'm liking the story, the dynamic, hell, everything! I am four pages into the outline, I'll update when I feel like it, but let's just say I have around...four chapters down.

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Gab and Uri is Still S-going...

My fucking God; my brain honestly is so annoying! I think I'll continue working on ‘Gab and Uri’ and put ‘Opalescent Operation’ on hold due to the fact that my outline meathod is so ineffective for me. I seriously need to find a method that works for me, maybe one that explains each chapter with one or two sentences? Perhaps that.

Leaving that to the dust, I think I shall re-read ‘Six of Crows’ because I need something to help drown ‘Oliver Twist’

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Re-reading Six of Crows

Yes yes; Oliver Twist has completely deprived me. All the verbose descriptions of England and self-humour are all taking a toll on my patience. Thus, I'm going to be taking a break reading, the one and only: Six of Crows.

Also, Update on Gab and Uri, I think I'll let it sit and rot for a while. You know, let it ferment. It's what I call, my first book (planned book) which is going to span about forty chapters and thus, I shall take a break from it. I'm going though, what I call, 'Author Turmoil' where I ultimately doubt my work profusely, before working on it again.

So, with all that said, I think I'll be plotting for a new book of my, 'Opalescent Operation'. The plot has a general direction, and will be blogged right here in my Writing Board. To say I'm not excited would be a complete lie. The plot seems more coherent than Gab and Uri.

Am I going to start on it right away? No, not really; there are still things I need to do such as reading some manga/manhwa, and/or reading books or watching nostalgic Minecraft youtubers.

So, I'll leave all this here.

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Tomorrow, I swear.

It's 00:10; certainly, sleep is a priority. Sleep and streaming Popularmmos's Total Insanity, and also finishing Oliver Twist. I will work on Gab and Uri tomorrow.

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Cutest cat ever what do you think? 

via @aristonv

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May: Asian American Heritage Month: books to read

Titles that celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh (Editor), Elsie Chapman (Editor)

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings. These are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. Compiled by We Need Diverse Books’s Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, the authors included in this exquisite collection are: Renee Ahdieh, Sona Charaipotra, Preeti Chhibber, Roshani Chokshi, Aliette de Bodard, Melissa de la Cruz, Julie Kagawa, Rahul Kanakia, Lori M. Lee, E. C. Myers, Cindy Pon, Aisha Saeed, Shveta Thakrar, and Alyssa Wong. A mountain loses her heart. Two sisters transform into birds to escape captivity. A young man learns the true meaning of sacrifice. A young woman takes up her mother’s mantle and leads the dead to their final resting place. From fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge, these stories will beguile readers from start to finish. For fans of Neil Gaiman’s Unnatural Creatures and Ameriie’s New York Times–bestselling Because You Love to Hate Me.

We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer

Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. In We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. Iyer asks whether hate crimes should be considered domestic terrorism and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant surveillance. She looks at topics including Islamophobia in the Bible Belt; the “Bermuda Triangle” of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria; and the energy of new reform movements, including those of “undocumented and unafraid” youth and Black Lives Matter. In a book that reframes the discussion of race in America, a brilliant young activist provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America.

American Dragons: Twenty-five Asian American Voices by Laurence Yep, Kam Mak (Illustrator), Ann Tashi Slater

This collection of poems, stories and one short play includes works by Tibetan Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans and Thai Americans–known and unknown, young and old–who write about growing up, fitting in, and relating to the older generation. A 1994 ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self by Alex Tizon

Alex Tizon landed in an America that saw Asian women as sexy and Asian men as sexless. Immigrating from the Philippines as a young boy, everything he saw and heard taught him to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height. His fierce and funny observations of sex and the Asian American male include his own quest for love during college in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. Tizon writes: “I had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me.” And then, a transformation. First, Tizon’s growing understanding that shame is universal: that his own just happened to be about race. Next, seismic cultural changes – from Jerry Yang’s phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to actor Ken Watanabe’s emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to Jeremy Lin’s meteoric NBA rise. Finally, Tizon’s deeply original, taboo-bending investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of young Asian men today, in a landscape still complex but much changed for the Asian American man.

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This is what I'm working with:

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I swear, I should put a list on what I should read next--

I Wanna Feel Inside You: Seduced by a Sweet Devil - Yaoi (18+) - Completed

Shinnosuke Taoka seems like your average businessman, but his "habit" of soliciting other men after a couple of drinks is anything but usual. After experiencing various troubles in college, he cut drinking out of his life, but working tirelessly with nothing else to comfort him finally drives him to visit a bar by himself. That's when he notices a hot guy approaching some girls he's seated by. Next thing he knows, he's inebriated and in bed feeling more pleasure than ever before as this handsome stranger penetrates him with his enormous attribute...

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The Hunger Games.

It has come to my recent attention, that it being a year without reading The Hunger Games; It appears that I must, so I will. After I butcher Oliver Twist; Hunger Games, your head is mine.

I don't remember much of it other than I liked it as much as a B tier. To give it a proper rating, it shall be read.

Maybe the odds ever be in your favor.

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