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The People of Paper by Salvador Plascensia

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

Mountain by Cixin Liu

The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakmi

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson

Homecoming by Eddie Huang

The Matchlock Rifle by Walter Edmonds

Two Logs Crossing by Walter Edmonds

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

July 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Mortality – 4/5 Stars This is a partial memoir and final notes first published by Vanity Fair and then in book form from the final days of Christopher Hitchens. There’s a part in the middle of every thing where someone tells Hitchens something like “God works in mysterious ways” and Hitchens wonders what is so mysterious about a heavy smoker getting advanced lung cancer. That’s the basic idea here. First things first, it’s not secret that Hitchens is a bit of a bugbear, and for […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: adapt, cbr14bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Christopher Hitchens, cixin liu, Eddie Huang, hans christian anderson, haruki murakami, Haruki Murakmi, Salvador Plascensia, Sun Tzu, Walter Edmonds, Washington Irving, william maxwell

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:383 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: adapt, cbr14bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Christopher Hitchens, cixin liu, Eddie Huang, hans christian anderson, haruki murakami, Haruki Murakmi, Salvador Plascensia, Sun Tzu, Walter Edmonds, Washington Irving, william maxwell ·
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No wonder they changed it up for a sitcom

June 1, 2015 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I had never read Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat, nor had I watched the show, but I’d heard that Huang had reacted very poorly to the adaptation of his memoir for TV. Apparently they cleaned it up a lot for TV, and after reading it, I can totally see why. Huang’s experience growing up in Orlando was pretty rough — he was beat up at school and at home, he lashed out by drinking, doing drugs and stealing, his language is atrocious, etc. Still, beneath that angry, unhappy […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Eddie Huang

badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:86 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Eddie Huang ·
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