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A Novel
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE SELECTION * A MALALA BOOK CLUB PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A FAVORITE BOOK OF 2022 BY NPR AND BOOK RIOT * A MUST-READ MARCH 2022 BOOK BY TIME, VANITY FAIR, EW AND THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY GOODREADS, NYLON, BUZZFEED AND MORE
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startlingly tender debut novel.
Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her efforts are a junk food addiction and stomach pain. When she accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives one afternoon, it looks like her ticket out of academic hell.
But Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s message lead to an explosive discovery, upending her entire life and the lives of those around her. What follows is a roller coaster of mishaps and misadventures, from book burnings and OTC drug hallucinations, to hot-button protests and Yellow Peril 2.0 propaganda. As the events Ingrid instigated keep spiraling, she’ll have to confront her sticky relationship to white men and white institutions—and, most of all, herself.
A blistering send-up of privilege and power, and a profound reckoning of individual complicity and unspoken rage, in Disorientation Elaine Hsieh Chou asks who gets to tell our stories—and how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves.
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One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain. Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school.
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this book was just ok
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De: Joanna Goodman
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The Never Never Sisters
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- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Marriage counselor Paige Reinhardt is counting down the days to summer, eager to reconnect with her workaholic husband at their cozy rental cottage in the Hamptons. But soon a mysterious crisis at Dave's work ruins their getaway plans. Paige is still figuring out how to handle the unexplained chill in her marriage when her troubled sister suddenly returns after a two-decade silence. Now, instead of enjoying the lazy summer days along the ocean, Paige is navigating the rocky waters of a forgotten bond with her sister in the sweltering city heat.
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Julia Whelan makes it worth the credit.
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Jane Bites Back
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Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves, but now it's because she's the owner of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy college town in Upstate New York. Every day she watches her novels fly off the shelves along with dozens of unauthorized sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations. Jane may be undead, but her books have taken on a life of their own.
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Utterly Rediculous
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
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A smart, comic pause-resister about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things. When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for - until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.
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Easy and Enjoyable Listen
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For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
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Narrator is distracting.
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Blue Blood
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To the dismay of her high-society mother, Cissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks wants no part of the Junior League life - opting instead for a job as a website designer and a passel of unpedigreed pals. Now her good friend, Molly O'Brien, is in bad trouble, accused of killing her boss at the local restaurant Jugs. Though no proper deb would ever set foot in such a sleazy dive, Andy's soon slipping into skintight hot pants and a stuffed triple D bra to gain employment there and somehow help clear Molly's name.
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Lucy Valentine is as smart as can be, as single as you can get, and so not qualified to run a matchmaking service. But when her parents temporarily step down from the family business, Valentine, Inc., it's Lucy's turn to step up and help out - in the name of love. Plus, her rent is due. Here's the problem: Lucy doesn't have the knack for matchmaking. According to family legend, every Valentine has been blessed by Cupid with the ability to read "auras" and pair up perfect couples.
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Cute light listen
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Carolyn Mackler's Printz Honor book - starring the unforgettably funny, body-conscious Virginia Shreves - returns in this 15th anniversary edition featuring text updates and never-before-heard material from the author. Fifteen-year-old Virginia feels like a plus-sized black sheep in her family, especially next to her perfect big brother Byron. Not to mention her best friend has moved, leaving Virginia to navigate an awkward relationship with a boy alone. In order to survive, Virginia decides to follow a "Fat Girl Code of Conduct", which works, until the unthinkable causes her family's facade to crumble.
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LOVE this
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Bad Girls Don't Die
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When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks she is just being her usual weird self. Things get weirder, though, when their house starts changing. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner blasts cold air.
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Great for Halloween
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Brett Bohlinger has forgotten all about the list of life goals she’d written as a naïve teenager. In fact, at 34, Brett seems to have it all—a plum job at her family’s multimillion-dollar company and a spacious loft with her irresistibly handsome boyfriend. But when her beloved mother, Elizabeth, passes away, Brett’s world is turned upside down. Rather than simply naming her daughter the new CEO of Bohlinger Cosmetics, Elizabeth’s will comes with one big stipulation: Brett must fulfill the list of childhood dreams she made so long ago.
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Truly Terrible.
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Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology, an expert in human behavior with her own hidden past. But she's not the only one keeping secrets. When Sheila began an affair with her sexy graduate assistant Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, she was riddled with guilt when they were apart. Now she's finally engaged to a good man, and it's time to end the dangerous liaison. But Ethan has something different in mind. He intends to make her pay for rejecting him.
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The narrator makes all the difference. Unfortunately, this one needed a different narrator!
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From the author of the critically acclaimed “lively and engrossing parable for women of all generations” (Harper’s Bazaar) The Regulars comes a deeply funny and thoughtful tale of a young woman who, after discovering she has the breast cancer gene, embarks on an unforgettable bucket list adventure. The Bucket List cleverly and compassionately explores Lacey’s relationship to her body and her future. Both are things Lacey thought she could control through hard work and sacrifice. But the future, it turns out, is more complicated than she could ever imagine.
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page turner
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True Biz
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True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges listeners into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress.
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A good story with added features both intriguing and informational
- De A Signing Mom en 05-15-22
De: Sara Novic
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Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.
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I've never hated a character harder
- De ashelyn downs en 07-26-23
De: R. F. Kuang
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- Douglas Chu
- 02-28-23
A great listen
Wonderful story, excellently voice acting performance by the narrator. I only wish the pronunciation of the Mandarin dialogue had been more accurate.
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- Autumn bass
- 05-20-23
Felt conflicted about this one
I see the message that is trying to be put across but I found that at a lot of moments it was poorly done and that the main character seemed so sheltered that once something inconvenienced her she literally lost her shit and let the people around her influence her actions and thoughts. She did make some good points but most of the time her reasoning was in the wrong place.
I personally didn’t find this book funny at all. I chuckled a few times but a lot of the humor wasn’t funny it was hypocritical.
I feel I was more disappointed than anything I went into this book expecting a funny light story I was super excited but I got the opposite.
I do feel that this book hits on a lot of good topics and things that need to be talked about but the delivery was not there for me.
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- Zach Chitwood
- 05-12-22
Exceptional
Wow. I will be thinking about this book for a long time. I wish I could read it again for the first time. This was a wonderful read. Thank you to the author and narrator. Truly exceptional.
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- MLB
- 09-01-23
Captures the pressure of Doing Doctoral Work
This was a good book but not a great book for me. The good - the performance was excellent. The plot gave me a lot of things to think about. There were lots of things I hadn’t considered because they are not part of my experience. The complexity of identities and relationships and perception grounded in personal experience is really compelling. The course of events is in many ways probably exactly how things might have gone in “real life”.
The biggest strength of the book is in capturing the PhD experience. The comparison with others, the role of the faculty, the power dynamics and the self-doubt — this book does that better than any novel I’ve read.
Overall, I learned a lot, laughed a little (there are genuinely funny moments in this book that Al feel true to the characters), and I am left with a lot to think about.
There were some aspects I struggled with. While generally the evolution of the characters made sense, I didn’t understand every character’s shift in every moment. Or maybe I didn’t understand their starting point and that wasn’t made clear through their changes in the text.
Then there were some minor aspects that just would not have happened the way they were described. A little more research on student affairs in higher education could resolve those. A faculty member with no student affairs experience would not become a Dean of Students. It would be a pay cut for one thing and he would lack qualifications. Also “room and board” means housing and meal plan so there wasn’t a need to add “and meal plan”. Again, these are pretty minor in the scheme of the story.
Worth a read, but won’t be for everyone.
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- Kyla
- 10-14-23
Thought provoking and engaging listen
I really enjoyed hearing so many different perspectives on the subjects of appropriation, racism, the complexities of so many cultures colliding and the expectations of society within all of it.
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- S. Zhu
- 03-04-23
Interesting take on modern campus culture wars
Killer concept for a novel gives the author a chance to riff thought-provokingly and entertainingly on American culture and higher education. It’s a little bleak, but so are those two things these days, and the narrative is often funny and touching, the latter almost despite itself.
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- KB in EP
- 11-08-23
Best Book I've Read This Year
This book should be required reading. Encapsulates so much about American society and academia. OMG! Insightful and funny!
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- Ashleigh Marie Brown
- 06-30-23
Hyper-Deadpan Narration Takes Getting Used To
Love this book. Admittedly, I love Asian/Asian-American literature and film (as a non-Asian WOC). But I actually chose this book because I noted a critical review comparing it to Paul Beatty's The Sellout, and that comparison was right on the money. Just as with Sellout and Beatty's first book, The White Boy Shuffle, Disorientation is sharp, satirical, and sometimes raucously hilarious with interesting characters and a plot that twists, turns, and is ceaselessly revelatory.
I came to enjoy Jennifer Kim's narration, but it took nearly half the novel to acclimate to it. I think I would have started LOL a lot sooner in the journey if there had been more pointed inflections (and because of this, I plan to read it again by sight). But ultimately, the straight narration works out for the book, particularly once it's clear that much of the story is farcical. Kim's near-emotionless interpretation makes the absurd even funnier, and eventually I realized that was likely the plan all along.
There is a mild didacticism to parts of the text, one I didn't mind (and in fact appreciated), but I can think of a few people I know who would indeed mind. So that's the only disclaimer: that in some pockets of this novel, it veers into what the uninitiated (+ the probably ignorant) may call "woke". But wherever you fall on the spectrum when it comes to 'culture wars', I can assure you that you won't ever be bored by this story.
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- JDS
- 06-14-22
Learned a lot about cooptation of Asian peoples and culture but tedious in places
The story led me along but would have benefited from editing in places. I did appreciate the slow awakening of the Taiwanese main character to consciousness of how the dominant (white) culture shaped her behavior and choices. Ultimately, she went with her new awareness and an open heart, with many complex questions unresolved. I also liked that not everything got wrapped up happily at the end.
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- Michael Kedziorski
- 08-25-22
it's worth a read.
it's a great listen. I laughed put Loud a lot. it's also really sad
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