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Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
Rebecca Yarros
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took a break from this book to read katabasis. on my way back to oxford, haha!!
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Babel
R.F. Kuang
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banhmeowz commented on a post
i resonated with this book so deeply. i laughed. i cried. i pondered.
i don’t think i have any words other than to say that this book is beautiful.
don’t forget to look up 💖
banhmeowz commented on a post
I love this book. I have read Yellowface and am concurrently reading Babel, and I genuinely believe thaf, stylistically, this book is a marriage between Yellowface and Babel. It contains the wit, humor, and satire of YF, and the academic nature of Babel. I feel like I’m learning a lot while following Alice and Peter’s journey.
I do think that the promotional language around this book being a romance were overshot—the romance is such a small part of the story.
I am REALLY enjoying the Alice’s inner musings, though. Her character is exceptionally relatable to me as someone who was part of higher academia for a while.
As a Berkeley alum, I’m also enjoying the digs at my alma mater hahahahaha.
Post from the Katabasis forum
i resonated with this book so deeply. i laughed. i cried. i pondered.
i don’t think i have any words other than to say that this book is beautiful.
don’t forget to look up 💖
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The Dallergut Dream Department Store
Lee Mi-ye
Post from the Katabasis forum
I love this book. I have read Yellowface and am concurrently reading Babel, and I genuinely believe thaf, stylistically, this book is a marriage between Yellowface and Babel. It contains the wit, humor, and satire of YF, and the academic nature of Babel. I feel like I’m learning a lot while following Alice and Peter’s journey.
I do think that the promotional language around this book being a romance were overshot—the romance is such a small part of the story.
I am REALLY enjoying the Alice’s inner musings, though. Her character is exceptionally relatable to me as someone who was part of higher academia for a while.
As a Berkeley alum, I’m also enjoying the digs at my alma mater hahahahaha.
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Red City (The New Alchemists #1)
Marie Lu
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
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Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
banhmeowz commented on a post
Ngl why are people saying you definitely need to do background reading for this? It's so manageable. I don't feel out of my depth at all and I can't read classics. I can't believe that I let people intimidate me from this book.
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