#Paper Menagerie

[boogiepopmeup]

I did my first event but it was pretty poorly publicized and barely anyone came. The shiny Clodsire i was so worried about was one of the only 5 things that sold lol. AND they took the Quagsire i sold as B Grade because it was such a mess… just goes to show you, you have to try.

Too bad almost no one came lol. I dont even feel that bad about it.

(So pretty much everything is still for sale lol hmu)

[flightdescending]

badly frankensteins the thing

[aseaofquotes]

Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

[reverie-quotes]

There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.

— Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

[riceballannie]

Cried my eyes out while reading Ken Liu's #thepapermenagerie for my university's book cover project. I combined traditional inking, graphite pencils and digital colouring :3

[haveyoureadthispoll]

A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards). A must-have for every science fiction and fantasy fan, this beautiful book is an anthology to savor.

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

THE PAPER MENAGERIE by Ken Liu (2011) (link) - tw: racism, death

A little paper tiger stood on the table, the size of two fists placed together. The skin of the tiger was the pattern on the wrapping paper, white background with red candy canes and green Christmas trees.

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1887) (link) - tw: depression, insanity

John is so pleased to see me improve! He laughed a little the other day, and said I seem to be flourishing in spite of my wall-paper. I turned it off with a laugh. I had no intentions of telling him it was because of the wall-paper — he would make fun of me. He might even want to take me away.

[litandlifequotes]

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

[tinynavajoreads]

Currently Reading: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

I'm loving short story anthologies that are written by the same author. And this one is interesting so far, I'm enjoying the stories and I'm excited to see what story comes up next :]

What do you like about anthologies? And do you like one author anthologies or multiple author anthologies?

[lizziestudieshistory]

05.02.2024 - I'm trying to do better about reading the 15 books I'm part way through... But I'm too deep down the Sarah J. Maas hole to address the teetering stack of books next to my bed. I am, however, being responsible and reading Ken Liu alongside because I'm supposed to be reading it with my best friend this month. So far I'm enjoying Maas more but Liu is making me think (which is very much needed with this latest development!)

Currently reading: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu; A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas; and too many other books to mention here

[apollogyas]

2023.02.05 | the paper menagerie and a milkshake

[cruelsister-moved2]

i really feel like ken liu was just like oh so really bad things happen to women, especially marginalised women and sex workers, under imperialism and colonialism. so i should just like show horrible things happening to women all the time and women being pushed into sex work because of imperialism. aaaand my work here is done #realism #gender

[elispyke]

"All life is an experiment. But at the end of our lives we'd know that no man could do with our lives as he pleased except ourselves, and our triumphs and mistakes alike were our own." - The Paper Menagerie, Ken liu

[paperscrapmae]

🐅 Weekly spread for the week of 5/17/2021

Quote from The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

[reverie-quotes]

You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It's for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.

— Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

[karmirsucculents]

Perhaps it is the dream of every parent to keep their child in that brief period between helpless dependence and separate selfhood, when the parent is seen as perfect, faultless. It is a dream of control and mastery disguised as love.

Ken Liu