coffee and inkLet the whole world crumble, so long as I can read another page. And then another after that. And then a hundred more. --Michael Dirda, Readings |
Also, I read Justina Chen Headley's Girl Overboard, and simultaneously want everyone in the world to read it right now and to keep it to myself because I feel protective of it. I've also realized that I have to make myself read stories about Chinese people or I just won't. It's like I've gotten so used to the idea of being invisible or in the background that putting our stories front and center is...IDK, hard to read. Part of it is fear of getting us wrong or exoticising us, but I think part of it is also expecting stories to be about white people that when it isn't, it's kind of weird and worrying. I mean, it shouldn't be easier to watch Firefly than it is to read Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix or Secret Identities, and yet... Guess which ones I haven't finished? I have these books because I like supporting these efforts. I just haven't read them...yet?