Symbol Lai·Mar 6, 2022What’s consent anyway?Lilith’s Brood, Xenogenesis 1–3, Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago.
Symbol Lai·Jan 1, 2022New Year resolutions for 2022 that I probably won’t keep but not for lack of trying.2022 is here and I’m feeling adventurous. I want to set some real resolutions. Not the concrete, practical ones I know I can keep. I’m in…
Symbol Lai·Dec 2, 2021Maybe I’m too dumb for fantasy. S.A. Chakraborty’s “The City of Brass.”S.A. Charkraborty’s The City of Brass is fun! Set in a Middle East inflected with the fantastic, the first book of the Daevabad Trilogy…
Symbol Lai·Nov 16, 2021“Crying in H-Mart” by Michelle Zauner.Michelle Zauner and I are AAPI and share an H-Mart. How about that? The H-Mart where Zauner goes to cry is the same one where I go for…
Symbol Lai·Oct 29, 2021“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang. Universalist or nah?If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound?A response icon1A response icon1
Symbol Lai·Oct 23, 2021The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinWhat a weird fucking book. The wackiest thing I’ve read in a while — and my go-to genres are science fiction and fantasy!
Symbol Lai·Oct 12, 2021Becoming by Michelle Obama. My first audiobook.I’m a sucker. I like, appreciate, or at least don’t mind the Obamas. I know.
Symbol Lai·Oct 4, 2021Audiobooks: what I listen to when I’m running.Even though audiobooks have been around for a while, I only started listening this year. Finally. I started training for a half marathon…