Great review 👏

For me, there are two problems with this book: 1. R.F. Kuang comes from a very privileged background, and that's helped her immensely in the publishing world. The publishing world is NOT a meritocracy, even though Yellowface portrays it as such. If you're wealthy and have had an Ivy League education like R.F. Kuang, then you'll have a better chance at being published by a major house. So when you're talking about cultural appropriation and the horrors of the publishing world despite a life of privilege, it's very hypocritical. 2. The main character isn't likable enough to be involving as a reader. I don't mind unlikable protagonists but this character is such a sanctimonious, entitled jerk that I no longer wanted to hear her story. I think the book would've had a lot more bite if the protagonist was forced by the publishing house to pass herself off as Asian-American so the book would sell more.

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this video is amazing... perspective on point and enlightening. ❤

Sad or happy ending?

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Good explanation, thanks.

Thank you, I was really interested in this book but a lot of the reviews seemed negative. As you mentioned, not all the books have to be the same and I loved the comparison to Alexa’s book because I loved that one too. I am going to get film for her now for sure ☺️

where are you going to realise that U HAVE A AUDIENCE... and u have to be consistent for them 🫠🫠🫠

Il first start with the positive points: I liked the feel of the book, and its quirky depiction of a young girl who felt she didn’t fit in to the world around her… Now on the negative: Whilst I really tried to enter the mind of the author and get a real understanding of the book and the characters I have today that this book (especially the ending) is ridiculous. I understand trauma and how it can distance people from reality and make them feel separated from society. I thought this book would take the terrible experience of the characters and the their altered interpretation of reality and delve into what it meant for them as individuals going from traumatised children into their adult lives (in what ever shape or form that took). Instead I feel like it just plopped a bunch of taboos in for shock value and had no where to go with it. The end was TERRIBLE and the most ridiculous of all!!!! Bringing cannibalism in to the mix in such an unrealistic way, void of human emotion or feeling was just crazy to me. It felt like the author wanted to quickly finish the book in an over the top way. This book had potential to go into many different avenues but sadly lost its way.

after sontag, i read butler and reflected on her concept of grievability. i looked at the picture and the discourse surrounding aylan kurdi. very exciting.

Thank you for your review :)

it is a cozy nice book indeed .. i read it translated to arabic (my langauge ).

i know this video is old, but i just read this as my intro to murakami. i absolutely loved it. the writing style was so interesting. and i agree, after dark is a direct reference to nightlife, but is also definitely a metaphor for life after darkness, depression, hardship. i loved the description of eri's deep sleep and her trying to escape as well as the descriptions of maris sleep and not feeling quite herself when she woke up. i really liked takahashi as a character too. i feel like the cellphone in the grocery store is also the feeling that your past is trying to pull you back in. i found it overall quite wholesome and a very good intro. i also love you talking about feeling nostalgia for old japan. just thinking about sitting in a dennys reading with a cigarette in hand is very nostalgic lol

I've just read HtWS the last couple of days and was surprised about two things (although I have read many of his other novels): First, how good it is, despite the fact that for him his writing career began not before the Sheep Chase, and, second, how sad it is. I agree with almost everything you say, however I felt - or let's say, for me - it is not so much a novel about the protagonist and the Rat, their friendship seemed more like a context for what impressed me most: the tragic destiny of the three girls: the one who commits suicide, the other who had to have done that abortion and then disappeared without a trace, and the girl, you mentioned, who is tied to the hospital bed for the rest of her life. And that two twins seem to have nowhere to go and to have no place in this world. So I'm starting Pinball now ...

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It's a beautiful book, and the first Ruth Ozeki one I read. I recommend "My Year of Meats" which I read shortly after (also feels non-fiction-y to me because of the subject matter). A little background. I'm a librarian and I noticed that this book was put on our new book shelf, which jogged my memory that I read this around a decade ago. Looking around to see if there's a reason this is getting put on our new shelf, I stumbled upon several recent reviews of this book, including yours. :)

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its on my movie list!

I’m 8 minutes in, and I feel like there would be spoilers, so I’ll get back to the video after I watch the movie, but omg I’m so glad you’re back with another video yaay 🎉 and happy new year btw!

Love your review, thanks ❤

Loved the review and love from Assam! 💖

Thanks for your review. I have just started reading this novel and your review increased my interest in the book.

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The set up is really cute!! 😍 very very interesting haul! It was nice seeing books I’ve never heard about before and A Lover’s Discourse is one of my favourite books from the last years! 👏🏻

I used to read wind up bird chronicle back in my home country in english 2-3 years ago. Now I am living in Japan and currently reading Umibe no kafuka ( kafka on the shore) in Japanese. I had a very very tough journey, but now looking back, I think I have come quite a long way.. Nobody asked, I just felt like sharing. Sorry.

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Nice video. love from assam

Hi Shreya! Very insightful review you are so well-spoken.

The most thorough review of this book online. I read many novels by Murakami and never was shure if I should pick up these first two of his, if they are good enough not to be a disappointment after having read much of his later work. Now your video made me decide I should. By the way the next two, Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance, are the two of Murakami's novels I enjoyed most.

First things first, I'm super excited to see the video 🙈 .. now , I'll watch and I'll be back again ✌️

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Summarised so well ❤

I read the ‘Illness as Metaphor’ as a background reading to a couple of my NE Indian origin lit fiction texts. It was really good.

I hadn’t ever had the thought to read Sontag, but your conversation makes me want to grab some of her work!

Wow, never thought u would review Susan Sontag's works.

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The pup is soooo cute! :D

Simple and great review!

I think this was such a beautiful book- especially the way it explored what it means to be strong. Where we get strength from. Great review!

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I loved how this book is both heart breaking and heart warming.. absolutely an amazing read!

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