Additionally, no discerning reader who wants a book about Chinese labourers in WW1 would give a fuck about GCAs.

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the phenomenon where the author would gigglingly and obviously insert a few of their real-life favorite things into the story. a lot of readers will likely proclaim the fact you can’t unsee the hand of the author in the writing is The Point. I was delighted to discover Luxembourg-based cello-accordion act Duo Kiasma, whose clever arrangements both pay homage to and challenge the classical music canon.i can definitely understand how someone who isn't as aware of some of the meta-commentary would have more enjoyment.

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But loneliness does permeate this tale, and we see how authors can feel crushed under the way for-profit publishing makes it a competition who awards winners and losers.This industry is built on silencing us, stomping us into the ground, and hurling money at white people to produce racist stereotypes of us.

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But Juniper still basks in the glow of success – at least until Twitter raises its collective eyebrow and she’s mired in an ever-widening plagiarism scandal. Now everyone probably remembers 2020 was the year many corporations made pledges to be better at diversity, the publishing industry under extra scrutiny as Black authors and anti-racism books were topping the best sellers and showing there was indeed a market for such books, but lets look at the industry itself. While I don’t have extensive knowledge of her work, I think what Kuang is doing in this book is actually quite brilliant. i can somewhat tell she struggled with where to take the ending and i have more thoughts on why i felt underwhelmed by it, but i guess that’ll be for 2023, for when it's no doubt on all the 'Very Important Books of the Year' lists.We’ve all most likely criticized a stranger on social media, sometimes the pile-ups are too fun and humorous to not get a joke in, but Kuang tries to remind us that the targets are real people with real feelings. Juniper’s ill-gotten gains mean she can give up – wait for it – ghost-writing college application essays; and in one scene, she twigs that her agent is bullshitting her over the phone about Chinese politics because she’s reading the same Wikipedia entry as him at exactly the same time. It all boils down to self-interest…If publishing is rigged, you might as well make sure it's rigged in your favor. As a result, June is given a new name (the deliberately ambiguous “Juniper Song”) and positioned as being “worldly”. Rather predictably, we went for the Nobel laureates – I chose for her Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, and she chose Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.