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Babel

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  • Babel
    Thoughts from 11% (page 60)

    took a break from this book to read katabasis. on my way back to oxford, haha!!

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    Babel

    Babel

    R.F. Kuang

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  • Katabasis
    banhmeowz
    Oct 08, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.5

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  • Katabasis
    finished!

    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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  • Katabasis
    Thoughts from 54% (page 300)

    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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  • Katabasis
    finished!

    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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  • Katabasis
    Thoughts from 54% (page 300)

    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)

    Red City (The New Alchemists #1)

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  • Katabasis
    Thoughts from 34%

    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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    banhmeowz's 2025 Reading Challenge

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    It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)
    The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1)
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