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pixouls@bookwyrm.social

Joined 4 years, 4 months ago

I primarily listen to audiobooks using Libby, and sometimes Audible. Feel free to ask me about how I have 11 cards on Libby.

Check out my book lists about things like Asian authors, or Autistic characters!

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2025 Reading Goal

76% complete! Pixel has read 38 of 50 books.

Elaine Hsieh Chou: Disorientation (Paperback, 2023, Penguin Books, Penguin Publishing Group)

I get that this is a book of satire but the way that the author writes queer characters is extremely uncomfortable and I couldn’t find out more about what’s up with that. The book is fun but feels predictable. Skipping mostly because I don’t feel a need to read more literature like this but if I hadn’t already read more like it, maybe it would be a good start.

(My Ahma is Fujian, which is more similar to Taiwanese than Mandarin)

I love how they talk about the distinction of mandarin and Taiwanese and the tension of being asked to learn the former even if the latter less used dialect is what connects us to family