#taylor weik

[aefward]

Madison Weik wears The Headmaster Trench, Haunting Knit, Bramwell Pant by Viktoria & Woods and Reebok Aztec II.

[polyproticamory]

Tagged by @jamiethekeener right when I wanted to procrastinate on some work. ^_^

Rules: spell out either your name or username using only books or only movies that have your vibe, and tag some people.

P - The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

O - On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

L - Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Y - The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

P - The Pisces by Melissa Broder

R - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

O - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

T - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

I - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

C - Chemistry by Weike Wang

A - America Is Not The Heart by Elaine Castillo

M - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

O - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

R - Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Y - Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

So many P's and O's and Y's made this difficult lmao. But here's my ~book vibe~

Tagging: @sheshallfromtimetotime @urfvgrl @heynonnynonnie and really anyone who feels like doing this!

[noa-nightingale]

Steven Lim Appreciation Week: Watcher-era Steven

We are celebrating Watcher-era Steven and I want to talk about Hidden Narratives for this day of Steven Lim Appreciation Week!

From the description: “Steven Lim speaks with Asian American leaders across industries about how the coronavirus has impacted our community.“

There are six episodes and one of them is also on youtube. Keep in mind that these episodes were created in March/April 2020. More on that at the end of the post.

Quick disclaimer, I am not Asian American and it would be inappropriate for me to lead any kind of conversation about this podcast; therefore I attempted to keep this relatively surface-level. But I have to admit that I got carried away with this pretty quickly and I am not sure if I stayed in my lane. It was meant to be a short, appreciative post but it got out of hand - if I overstepped boundaries, please let me know.

A warning, this podcast deals with heavy and difficult topics, including racism, grief, pain, people losing their businesses, people hurting. It is also very focused on people coming together and how they can help each other - but these topics are still not easy. I still wanted to write about it because I think that Steven deserves all the appreciation in the world for his work.

The first words that come to mind when thinking about this podcast are “heart” and “dedication”. It has a lot of heart - and despite the not always happy topics, it is such a wonderful, beautiful podcast. You notice the hard work Steven put into it, the passion, the care.

In the intro of the first episode he said he was nervous when he made the podcast but that he hoped that people liked it because it would make him feel good. He explained where the idea came from: His friends talked about how the virus effected their livelihood, and he felt hurt and helpless. And he realized that he could share their untold stories.

Episode 1: How Coronavirus Shut Down A Restaurant in 24 Hours

In the first episode, Steven talks to his friend Deuki Hong, chef and owner of Sunday Hospitality Group, whose restaurants shut down in March 2020. He talked about the emotional impact of things happening so fast, trying to keep his employees safe and worrying about his team, having to question a lot of things he had been taught, and having to deal with the uncertainty.

Steven mostly asked questions and listened. Deuki Hong had to make some difficult decisions, and Steven was never judgmental about it - the podcast allowed for a very honest conversation about a very difficult situation.

The first episode very much was about trying to look out for each other, and that is a sentiment that continues throughout the entire podcast.

Deuki Hong said near the end of the episode: “When people are hurt, they just want someone to talk to, a shoulder to cry on, whatever that is, so be that person, just be kind, cause yeah, there’s a lot of hurt people right now.”

There is a GoFundMe set up for the team called Sunday Family Dream Fund. It is still open and has not reached its goal - the first episode of Hidden Narratives came out in March 2020 and the last donation to the GoFundMe was 8 months ago, so I am not really sure what the current state of affairs is. (I will come back to this at the end of my post.)

Episode 2: Why This NYC Restaurant Is Staying Open In A Pandemic

Steven mentions in the beginning of the second episode his “close emotional connection to the food industry” and that it is one of the reasons he started his podcast with two stories from two different restaurants. He also wanted to look at the topic of keeping the restaurant(s) open vs. closing it from two perspectives, and says that he does not know if there is a right or wrong answer.

Steven talks to Jimmy Ly, chef and co-owner of Madame Vo and Madame Vo BBQ. Jimmy Ly made the decision to keep his restaurants open. Steven started the conversation with: “Jimmy, thank you for sharing your story and I hope that those listening can gain a little more compassion, a little more empathy and a little more understanding.”

I found it touching that Steven’s first question was “How are you doing?” - it was asked in a way that allowed for an honest answer. This is also something he continues throughout the podcast, and it is very obvious that Steven is a very thoughtful and considerate person.

Jimmy Ly talked about his decision and for him, too, it is about his staff and his obligation toward them - the wanted to take care of them. Steven summed it up with “It is a choice for them between their livelihood and their safety”.

He talked about the measures they took to keep their staff as safe as possible and about adapting to the situation as best as they can.

Jimmy Ly said, if somebody on his team contracted the virus, he would shut his business down. It was obvious that none of the decisions he had to make and has to make are easy. They also talked about how Asian owned business were hit the hardest, and the drop in business for many.

The end of the episode got emotional - Jimmy Ly talked about how people who had to close their small businesses would most likely not be able to open them again. He said he and many others worked hard and that it is unfair that they could lose everything.

Steven talked about the impact Madame Vo had on him and that he could tell that Jimmy Ly cared about his restaurant, staff and customers and the food and that he poured love into it. Jimmy Ly said that Madame Vo means family to him.

The episode description includes the link to the Madame Vo website - Madame Vo Kitchen is still open while Madame Vo BBQ is “temporarily closed”.

Episode 3: FBI Warns Asian Americans Of Racist Outbreaks Due To Coronavirus

In the third episode, Steven talks to Benny Luo, the founder and CEO of NextShark, about the surge of racism against Asian Americans. He said despite growing up one of the only Asians in his school and being attacked for it, he has never seen so many Asian Americans being attacked in his life before.

From the description: NextShark is “one of the leading sources of global Asian and Asian American news”.

Benny Luo talked about the cases of racism against Asian Americans rising and that him and his team work the hardest they have ever worked in the history of the company to be able to report the stories.

He also talked about the impact of being confronted with those stories regularly - that it is psychologically draining but that his team feels a responsibility to do this work and that he is proud of his team.

Benny Luo told about someone writing to the team about the momentous moments happening for Asian Americans in the past years - and how it felt like it all came tumbling down. He said it is hurtful but that he also hopes it will be a time in history where the entire Asian community will come together.

But he also highlighted the good - there are people doing important work, in the medical field and in other fields, and it is important to be proactive - and these stories should be covered too.

Steven called the conversation “enlightening and therapeutic”. Benny Luo said to Steven: “You’re a creator, you’ve been a representative for us, being an Asian face on a really really big platform and (...) you doing interviews like this with me and you speaking up, I mean, those things have a lot of impact so no matter what it is, I think that you’ve made a big contribution in helping advance us forward.”

Here is the NextShark website.

Episode 4: On Andrew Yang And How Proving Our "American-ness" Won't End Racism

The fourth episode deals with the controversial op-ed by Andrew Yang that advises Asian Americans to show their American-ness to combat racism. Steven said that he was hurt by his words but also by the way Andrew Yang was treated as a result.

In the episode, Steven talks to Taylor Weik, a Japanese-American writer who wrote an article in response to the op-ed. From the description: “Taylor shares more context on why Yang's call-to-action was dismissive to the history of Japanese-Americans and details the negative impacts of Yang's article on the Asian American community.“

In his reflection of the episode, Steven said he did not know how to feel when the article came out - he did not agree with Andrew Yang and he thinks what he said was harmful but people also dismissed all of Andrew Yang’s previous accomplishments. Steven said he can understand the outrage. He said that he thinks that Andrew Yang can learn and that they can grow as a community.

It was clear that this was a difficult topic for Steven but he did his best to have a balanced and fair conversation and to not condemn.

Episode 5: Why American Healthcare Workers Aren’t Safe From The Pandemic

In the fifth episode, Dr. Shuhan He, an emergency doctor and the co-founder of GetUsPPE.org, talks with Steven about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers.

They had a conversation about what exactly PPE is and why it was so hard to get. They not only talked about the importance of PPE in hospitals but also in nursing homes. Another topic was the importance of wearing masks.

Steven said: “A lot of people are grieving and (...) I’ve been feeling a lot of pent-up sadness and I don’t know how to channel the energy.” He asked how people can help.

Here is the link to Dr Shuhan He’s organisation GetUsPPE. Once again Steven mentioned people coming together and doing good.

Episode 6: Should Churches Gather During a Pandemic?

The sixth episode is very personal to Steven - his Christian faith is the most important thing in his life. He talks to Pastor Drew Hyun, pastor and leader of Hope Church Midtown in New York City. Steven attended Hope Church when he was still in New York.

They talked about churches gathering - Pastor Hyun’s churches are meeting remotely. He said that people were missing connectivity and that’s why they decided to make services interactive and using Zoom instead of having live streams. They also switched their style of services to a style that would allow more interaction.

Pastor Hyun said what makes the situation so painful is that people share the collective grief but are still physically isolated. Steven asked how people are doing spiritually - Pastor Hyun said there was a hunger, and that people are starting to think about faith and life and God.

He said they would not be gathering because they want to be a loving community - a loving community would serve the vulnerable, deliver food to the elderly, raise money for small businesses, serve non-profits. He wanted to lean into love and generosity.

Steven talked about the challenges with his own faith - why would God allow such a devestating thing? He said he can at least channel all the energy of grief, and that giving back has been therapeutic for him. He also mentioned that churches are now more accessible than ever.

They talked about some churches not being willing to stop gathering in person - Pastor Hyun said it is a grief to him and that the most loving thing that churches can do is not to gather.

Again, the end of the episode got emotional - Steven asked how Pastor Hyun personally was doing and he told about how he tried to support the restaurant of a friend and walked out of it crying. He said it would be easy for him to fall into despair and cynicism - but that he clings to the thought that God will do something. He talked about people suffering and how hard it is to watch - and that the situation is challenging.

Steven said he would keep him in his prayers. Pastor Hyun said: “Thanks for what you’re doing and I think it’s beautiful - you’re telling the stories of pockets of light in the midst of what’s happening.”

In his reflection, Steven said that he had been struggling with the situation every day but where he can find joy and peace and confidence is God and the belief that God has a plan for him.

A few closing thoughts: I admire Steven’s dedication. I think this quote from the end of episode 3 sums it up: “I spend my evenings editing this, it’s not part of our overall business plan and probably, you know, we’re losing money from it. It’s not supposed to be my priority. But I’ve been given the green light by my co-founders, by my head of development to continue making this show.”

That’s incredible hard work right there. And it deserves to be recognized.

The podcast was created in the early stages of the pandemic. I don’t know how the people who shared their stories are doing now, about a year later. I would love to have some updates - I thought about doing some research myself and create sort of a follow-up but, again, I don’t know if I am the right person to do it.

To conclude this already too lengthy post, I want to return to the main themes that could be found in all episodes: Coming together, helping each other, creating support, being kind, channeling negative emotions into positive actions, making positive changes.

That’s what Steven is doing with this podcast and with the rest of his work, and it is very very impressive, commendable and inspirational.

[vernorsgingerale]

books i read in 2020

the hound of the baskervilles by sir arthur conan doyle

curious toys by elizabeth hand

illyria by elizabeth hand (reread)

goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong (reread)

ghost wall by sarah moss (reread)

ways of seeing by john berger

wuthering heights by emily brontë

oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson

euphoria by lily king

landscapes: john berger on art by john berger, edited by tom overton

how the canyon became grand: a short history by stephen j. pyne

medieval bodies: life, death and art in the middle ages by jack hartnell

howl’s moving castle by diana wynne jones (reread)

weather by jenny offill

how to be both by ali smith

public library and other stories by ali smith

margaret the first by danielle dutton

homie by danez smith

mariette in ecstasy by ron hansen

a children’s bible by lydia millet

how steeple sinderby wanderers won the FA cup by j. l. carr

don’t call us dead by danez smith

the hand on the wall by maureen johnson

in the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship essex by nathaniel philbrick (reread)

real life by brandon taylor

autumn by ali smith

a room of one’s own by virginia woolf (reread)

meditations after the bear feast: the poetic dialogues of n. scott momaday and yuri vaella, translated and edited by alexander vashchenko and claude clayton smith

midwest futures by phil christman

the waterworks by e. l. doctorow

the case of the missing marquess by nancy springer

fieldwork by mischa berlinski

n.p. by banana yoshimoto, translated by ann sherif (reread)

lie with me by philippe besson, translated by molly ringwald

chemistry by weike wang (reread)

the case of the left-handed lady by nancy springer

intimations by zadie smith

darkly: black history and america’s gothic soul by leila taylor

the only good indians by stephen graham jones

fierce femmes and notorious liars: a dangerous trans girl’s confabulous memoir by kai cheng thom

winter by ali smith

earth keeper: reflections on the american land by n. scott momaday

last night in nuuk by niviaq korneliussen, translated by anna halager

kitchen by banana yoshimoto, translated by megan backus

weetzie bat by francesca lia block (reread)

witch baby by francesca lia block

mapping the interior by stephen graham jones

[thats-definitelynot-raven]

Reflections on books in 2018

As the year draws to a close, I feel like I’m in such a reflective state. One of the best things that I did this year was to start reading for pleasure again. Since officially becoming a PhD candidate (woot), I have some time on my hands to pursue things that I really like. One of which is reading anything other than dry primary literature all day. I challenged myself to read 52 books this year, one per week. I exceeded this goal by September, and then challenged myself to read genres that I don’t normally read. With just a few days left in the year, and a just 6 unread books on my kindle bookshelf, I found myself pondering what books were the best and wondering if my taste in literature has changed at all.

My conclusion? I have a new favorite book (They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera), and apparently really enjoyed books that had LGBTQ representation. In fact, in #twentygayteen I read books that had representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer individuals. I’m pretty pumped about that because that wasn’t even my goal, but it seems like authors are trying to make their characters more representative of the people who read. 

See my favorites from my reading list this year with LGBTQ reads bolded:

Fiction (best to worst)

·     They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera

·     The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

·     The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

·     The Martian, Andy Weir

·     Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan

·     Artemis, Andy Weir

·     Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli

·     China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan

·     Dread Nation, Justina Ireland

·     Alex, Approximately, Jenn Bennett

·     Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard

·     Wonder Woman: Warbringer, Leigh Bardugo

·     Three Dark Crowns, Kendare Blake

·     Chemistry, Weike Wang

·     You Know Me Well, Nina LaCour and David Levithan

·     Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo

·     Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan

·     Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertalli

·     To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han

·     The Prince, Jillian Dodd

·     A Simple Favour, Darcey Bell

·     Nerve, Jeanne Ryan

·     The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

·     The Angel Experiment, James Patterson

·     Personal Demons, Lisa Desrochers

·     Swarm, Scott Westerfeld

·     Mrs. Fletcher, Tom Perrotta

·     Circe, Madeline Miller

·     Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

·     The Testing, Joelle Charbonneau

·     Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

·     The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin

·     Maybe in Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid

·     A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas

·     Uninvited, Sophie Jordan

·     The President is Missing, Bill Clinton and James Patterson

·     All Grown Up, Jami Attenberg

·     The Circle, Dave Eggers

·     American Gods, Neil Gaiman

·     The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness

·     Ex-Heroes, Peter Clines

·     Girls Made of Snow and Glass, Melissa Bashardoust

·     The Wangs vs. the World, Jade Chang

·     The Eagle, Jillian Dodd

·     Replica, Lauren Oliver

·     Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here, Anna Breslaw

·     Gallows Hill, Lois Duncan

·     Dorothy Must Die, Danielle Paige

·     Ban This Book, Alan Gratz

·     Markswoman, Raati Mehrotra

·     School’s Out—Forever, James Patterson

·     The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert

·     All of This is True, Lygia Day Penaflor

·     Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci

·     Furyborn, Claire Legrand

*Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut. This was a re-read, and as such I felt like it would be difficult to rank next to the new reads. It is a favorite of mine, so it would be ranked high, in the top 5 at least.

Nonfiction (best to worst)

·     The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, Mark Manson

·     The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany Haddish

·     Bossypants, Tina Fey

·     Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, Ruby Lal

·     Educated, Tara Westover

·     Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space, Margot Lee Shetterly

·     Here is Real Magic: A Magician’s Search for Wonder in the Modern World, Nate Staniforth

·     Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, Eddie Huang

·     Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff

·     Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson (the only people in a hurry that this book was for is a physicist)

Poetry

·     Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

·     The Sun and Her Flowers, Rupi Kaur

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Yesterday I was scrolling through Twitter and I came across a post that said “ Yellow Peril supports Black Power” and my initial reaction was this is awesome that minorities are standing together especially considering the oppression Asian-Americans have been facing during the Covid-19 outbreak. Not being to familiar with Yellow Peril I did some research and discovered that the Racist ideology of Yellow Peril is this fear the Western world had of a nameless horde of non-white others from the orient, at the very core they would image apes, lesser men, primitives, who possessed special powers. The sinologist Wing-Fai Leung explains that the term “ derived racialist ideology. The phrase yellow peril blends Western anxieties about sex, racist fears of the other and a spenglerian belief that the West will become outnumbered and enslaved by the East.” Reading this I could feel the disgust of this level of racism and It felt empowering knowing that one group who is well acquainted with oppression and violence is standing in solidarity with another group. However researching further into this statement, I discover that those in the BLM do not share my welcoming feeling of the Asian community supporting the movement, and I will share with you why.

“and while it’s being repurposed by Asian Americans as a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, some activists have begun speaking out against its use today, saying it detracts from the movement by equating Asian American struggles with black struggles.” ( Taylor Weik)

“ Yellow peril supports black power” is most often associated with the story of Richard Aoki, a japanese american activist who joined the black panther party in 1969 and rose in the ranks to become a field marshal and supplying the party with guns from his personal collection. “The Panthers understood that racism against Japanese Americans and Asian Americans was linked to black liberation, and that these communities were both oppressed by white supremacy.” This was a huge step in making progress against white supremacy groups, progress that Aoki made through his association with this group. However, after doing research into Aoki I discovered that in 2012, three years after Aoki died, documents were revealed that showed he was an FBI informant whose sole purpose was to infiltrate the Black Panther Party and report back.

Knowing that the root of this phrase “ Yellow peril stands with Black Power” is sourced in the FBI using the color of a man’s skin to gain control on a group's uprising against oppression and racism while using a term used to describe a racist ideology of a yellow race. This information puts a huge question mark on Aoki’s work and the origins of “yellow peril supports black power”. Even though at the time it was a way Asian Americans could voice their support for black communities and unite against oppressive forces. However, the controversy comes in the reaction of the claim that they are the same struggle. Most believe that Black Lives Matter is a different movement in a different era and are frustrated about the claim that they are the same. However the bias does surface when considering these claims that the very motion of the BLM community saying that the yellow peril and BLM are different struggles in different eras, suggests that the Asian community does not still face prejudices. It suggests that black lives matter, not all lives matter. It is a very interesting situation and I encourage everyone to look into this subject, and discover your point of view on the subject.

- Emma Welch

[vermiculated]

books 2017 so far

wow, tuv want to talk about why you haven’t kept a monthly book list? (because I am scared of my phone and also writing.) no. 

Reiffen's Choice - SC Butler

Flex- Ferrett Steinmetz

The Good Funeral - Thomas Long and Thomas Lynch

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley

The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie

The Invaders - Karolina Waclawiak

Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai

Adaptation - Malinda Lo

The Dream of Enlightenment - Anthony Gottlieb

Central Station - Lavie Tidhar

Why Did I Ever - Mary Robison (vg)

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor (vg) 

The Book of Tea - Kazuko Okakura

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

Unmentionable - Therese O'Neill

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua

IQ - Joe Ide

The Little Virtues - Natalia Ginzburg trans Dick Davis

The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch

Death's Door - Sandra Gilbert

Holy Anorexia - Rudolph Bell 

Hild - Nicola Griffith (vg)

Sum - David Eagleman

Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich trans Bela Shayevich

Everything is Teeth - Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner

Water Dogs - Lewis Robinson (vg)

Selection Day - Aravind Adiga 

The Wicked Boy - Kate Summerscale

Nicotine - Gregor Hens trans Jen Calleja

Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton

Audition -  Ryu Murakami trans Ralph McCarthy

A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman trans Jessica Cohen

Zakhor - Yosef Yerushalmi

Citizen - Claudia Rankine

Blitzed - Norman Ohler trans Shaun Whiteside

Exorcising Hitler - Frederick Taylor

Being A Beast - Charles Foster

The Open Fields - CS and CS Orwin 

Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

The Mistletoe Murder - PD James

The Radius of Us - Marie Marquardt

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Apex Book of World SF 2- Lavie Tidhar ed

Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst

Traitor to the Throne - Alwyn Hamilton

Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown

Pain - Javier Moscoso trans Sarah Thomas and Paul House 

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England - Olive Anderson

The Regional Office is Under Attack - Manuel Gonzalez

The Vanquished - Robert Gerwarth

There is No Good Card For This - Kelsey Crowe

Death, Religion and the Family in England - Ralph Houlbrooke

His Bloody Project - Graham McRae

Violence in Early Modern Europe - Julius R Ruff

Snowblind - Ragnar Jonasson trans Quentin Bates

Today Will Be Different - Maria Semple

Martin Luther - Lyndal Roper

The Young Richelieu - Elizabeth Marvick

History Is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Inheritance - Malinda Lo

Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli trans Simon Cornell and Erica Segre

Long Hidden - Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older

Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Monstress - Marjorie Liu 

This Close to Happy - Daphne Merkin 

The Gin Closet - Leslie Jamison

Bilgewater - Jane Gardam (vg)

Colonial Spirits - Steven Grasse

Fragrant Harbor - John Lanchester

A Cup of Rage - Raduan Nassar trans Stefan Tobler

A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot trans Linda Coverdale

A Long Finish - Michael Dibdin

Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu

Powers of Darkness - Bram Stoker trans Valdimar Asmundsson trans Hans Cornell de Roos

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

Huntress - Malinda Lo

The Night Battles - Carlo Ginzburg trans Anne and John Tedeschi

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih trans Denys Johnson-Davies

Life's Work - Willie Parker

The Mothers - Brit Bennett

We Are Okay - Nina LaCour

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones

Time Travel - James Gleick

Questions of Travel - William Morris, ed Lavinia Greenlaw

Words on the Move - John McWhorter

Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang

Teeth - Mary Otto

Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz

We The Animals - Justin Torres

Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders - Anna Wirz-Justice et al

Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood

English, August - Upmanyu Chatterjee

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie 

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

The Girl Before - JP Delaney

The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent

Half-Bad - Sally Green

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Mr. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Mrs. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis 

Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Plucked - Rebecca Herzing

The Outsiders - SE Hinton

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Mind Your Manors - Lucy Lethbridge

Blood in the Water - Heather Ann Thompson

Blood Rain - Michael Dibdin

The Dry - Jane Harper

History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund

See Under: Love - David Grossman trans Betsy Rosenberg

Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar

Sarong Party Girls - Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser

The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

God's Perfect Child - Caroline Fraser

The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore

Otherbound - Connie Duyvis

Chronotherapy - Michael Terman and Ian McMahan

Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson (vg)

Bright Air Black - David Vann 

Out - Natuso Kirino trans Stephen Snyder

The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Dirty Snow - George Simenon trans Marc Romano and Louise Varese

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

And Then You Die - Michael Dibdin 

Medusa - Michael Dibdin 

Saga - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al 

The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu trans Joel Martinsen

A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume

My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul

Two Women of London - Emma Tennant

Stoner - John Williams

The Crest on the Silver - Geoffrey Grigson

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Oranges - John McPhee

Shrinking Violets - Joe Moran 

The Invisibility Cloak - Ge Fei trans Caanan Morse

The Water Kingdom - Philip Ball

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, vol 1 - Arigon Starr, ed

The Happy Traveller - Jamie Kurtz

Century's End - Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin

Saga vol 2 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth

Back to Bologna - Michal Dibdin

End Games - Michael Dibdin 

What If? - Randall Munroe 

Taft 2012 - Jason Heller 

Saga vol 3 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

Gentlemen and Amazons - Cynthia Eller 

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

God's Philosophers - James Hannam

Ravished - Amanda Quick

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson

The Weapon Wizards - Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot

Death's End - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

Chemistry - Weike Wang (vg)

[bahhumpug]

Monkey is so excited to be in her first @bookofthemonthclub post! You don't even know how hard it was to keep them back from trampling over my June selections. 😧 * This month I chose The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (by Taylor Jenkins Reid), Chemistry (by Weike Wang), and The Sisters Chase (by Sarah Healy). I'm excited to read all of these & am loving the covers! Which ones are you going to pick? * #funaekbooks #funaekreads #botm #botmbookbassador #bookofthemonth #bookofthemonthclub #pugsandbooks

[thebookwars]

Top Ten Tuesday - Favourite Book Quotes

Top Ten Tuesday – Favourite Book Quotes

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is a delightful one for word lovers – Top Ten Book Quotes – here are some of our favourite lines. We’d love to hear some of your favourites in the comments below! Jane Oh, now this is an easy one. I have so, so, so many favourite quotes! Where to even begin? “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”…

[boxyladies]

Book of the Month - June 2017

Book of the Month – June 2017

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I am really excited about this Book of the Month box!! Not only are the selection options great this month, but we also have the option to add the latest David Sedaris book to our box! I love love love love David Sedaris. Side note: Be sure to make your book choice by June 5 in order to take advantage of this month’s selections and grabbing the new…

[aefward]

Madison Weik wears The Miracle Dress, Flare Hoops & Wilder Boot by Viktoria & Woods.

[amarenadgz]

Summer Book List

White Fur - Jardine Libaire

Chemistry - Weike Wang

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Still Lives - Maria Hummel

Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell

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Tweeted

"A Fictional Heroine’s Fitful Upbringing Is Set Against the Sino-Japanese War" by WEIKE WANG via NYT The New York Times https://t.co/01XjeURGvs

— Rhys Taylor (@rhystaylor77) February 2, 2018

[ahmarwolf]

Meet the ‘Cosplay Parents’ devoting retirement to costumes and conventions Taylor Weik for NBC News did a great piece of a retired couple Steve and Millie Tani who cosplay to have fun. Good for them read their story here

[real-pants]

Dr. Finck Joins Muse /A

Atlanta’s Shannon Finck has joined Muse /A Journal as an assistant editor. Shannon is now part of a team that includes Anya Vostrova, Simona Chitescu Weik, Shamar Hill, and Taylor D’Amico. Here’s a little bit about Shannon, straight from the source’s mouth (see what I did there?): I am a limited-term assistant professor of English and composition at the University of West Georgia. I earned…

[in--movement]

In Movement: Our Mission

So yesterday we received the following message: 

We'd very much like to address the problem to save from future misunderstandings. We are very grateful for the feedback and continue to encourage feedback. We recognize that perhaps our questions were not properly phrased so we first apologize if there was an offense that was made. But as an Asian American studies project, we are indeed focusing on Asian Americans and here's why:

In Movement's mission is to highlight Asian American involvement in the Southern California hip hop dance community. While not all members of this diverse community identify as Asian American, we find it important to raise awareness of those who do and who use their talents to express themselves through outlets not previously occupied by those of Asian descent.

We wish to examine dance as not just a hobby, but a lifestyle. We want to examine hip hop as a way for Asian Americans to build community and to make themselves known. 

If we look at all the facets of hip hop, we realize there's a deficit of Asian American representation in all these areas. But here in Southern California, many Asian Americans have found their niche in dance and have become inspirations to those like just like them. We watch YouTube videos and see these people who look just like us doing something we love to do, allowing us to find that positive Asian American image in our generation's main form of media (YouTube) that strays from the stereotypical representations, like the tech savvy geek, the math nerd and the woman warrior, that we often find in mainstream media such as film and television.

Regardless of the topic, the genre or the medium, we will always fall under this burden of representation... but that's just part of the battle. In light of the new generation and all our hopes to keep moving forward, we are pleased to spotlight and commend those who have stepped forth in movement of the Asian American Movement, whether they realize their historical impact or not.

Because we are all pioneers of a new movement. We are all In Movement.