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christy

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Supporting* Women's Wrongs
Japanese Literary Fiction
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My Taste
Bury Your Gays
I Cheerfully Refuse
Boy
Strange Beasts of China

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Colored Television

Colored Television

Danzy Senna

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    Thoughts from 17% (page 48)

    Jane strikes me as a very negative person. She is constantly policing white and Black people alike, questioning their motives and whether they are performing their race the way she thinks they should. And now she’s imagining laughing about her (probably homeless) colleague with her husband? Yikes. Misery sure loves company 😬

    I think her tendency to negativity and judgment is coming from a place of dissatisfaction in her own life and a desire to feel morally superior to people who are successful or living the kind of life that she wants for herself but can’t admit to wanting. If I may offer another platitude here: comparison is the thief of joy. I really hope she isn’t like this for the whole book 😭

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  • It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
    christy
    Jun 09, 2026
    It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.5
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    What a beautiful, lyrical novel.

    I liked the use of the zombie trope as an extended metaphor for loss and grief, without ever bothering to explain how the world or the narrator ended up this way. One of the most profound zombie stories I’ve read or watched, to be sure; a close second would be the BBC’s series “In the Flesh,” which I highly recommend to readers who enjoyed this book.

    Even the use of second-person narrative did not feel strange.

    Took a point off because the body horror struck me in the wrong mood. I wasn’t always interested in reading about the things she did to her own body or others’.

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    It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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  • Audition
    christy
    Jun 07, 2026
    Audition
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.0
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  • Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir
    christy
    Jun 02, 2026
    Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir
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    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5
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    A surprisingly short graphic memoir about dealing with cancer as a young, queer adult. I found Kimiko’s perspective very honest and refreshing. She noted many differences in her experiences as a depressed queer, masc WOC from the mainstream representation of cancer survivors (i.e., white and defiantly optimistic).

    Interesting subject matter, but my feeling about the book is that it was just fine.

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