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Love in a Fallen City
Love in a Fallen City | Karen Kingsbury
Collects six tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life.
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Liz_M
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Occasional Weekly Report:

Finally finished the Rushdie. Excellent, wordy and I should have read it during a vacation. Also read Ivory Pearl which was delightful until it abruptly stops because the author never finished it. And read, start to finish, very quickly the love letter to NYC that is The World We Made.

Always reading Clarissa and about to start Love in a Fallen City and/or The Great Believes.

Chrissyreadit Happy Litsyversary! 6mo
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GatheringBooks
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#ItHadToBeYou Day 19: dark #chocolate covered macadamia. 💕🍫

AmyG Those macadamia nuts are 🙌🏻 2y
TheBookHippie Cover ♥️ 2y
Eggs Well done! 2y
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GatheringBooks
Love in a Fallen City | Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang
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I live for cheese! 💕 More Valentine Shenanigans. 💕

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GatheringBooks
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Valentine dinner with my Valentine of 31 years. 💕🥰📚💐

Yoricke_SouthAfrica That looks delicious. And 31 years, wow! 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 2y
batsy 💕 2y
Cathythoughts Divine 😋 2y
Cathythoughts Happy Valentines ❤️ 2y
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GatheringBooks
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#ItHadToBeYou Day 15: chocolate covered macadamia is my #Candy. 💕 Reading this book for Valentine‘s and #DecolonizeBookshelves2022.

Eggs 🤎🍫🌰❤️ 2y
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GatheringBooks
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#ItHadToBeYou Day 10: I am sure there is #LoveLost in this potential #NYRBBookClub title and also part of our #DecolonizeBookshelves2022 reading theme.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome cover!! 2y
Eggs Love it ❤️🤍❤️ 2y
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DrexEdit
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Here is the result of the library book sale this morning. I think we knew not buying anything was not going to happen. The tagged book was a NYRB title already on my#TBR. Score! Queen Hildegarde appears to be a YA story from 1889. And it's a series! Looking forward to checking that one out. A couple of books about books and a couple of classics. Pleased with this stack overall! #bookhaul

Lcsmcat I‘m longing to read the Smiley! Can‘t wait to hear your opinion. (edited) 3y
DrexEdit @Lcsmcat It is dense! Nearly 600 pages and she covers 100 novels. I think it's going to be a keep it on hand and dip in and out when I have a chance kind of book! 3y
Lcsmcat @DrexEdit Yes, it doesn‘t seem like a “straight through, front to back” book which is why I haven‘t checked it out of the library. 3y
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youneverarrived
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These stories were all beautifully written and translated. They have a sense of melancholy & almost a nostalgic type of feel to them. A lot of the characters were ‘unlikeable‘ but in a love to read about them way. I really enjoyed them all besides one (the one translated by Chang herself). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

BarbaraBB Hi Katie! How are you doing? Getting used to being a mother? 😘 4y
youneverarrived Hi @BarbaraBB 😘 yeah, it‘s the best thing. The first 2/3 months were tough but we‘re in a great routine now and Alfie is no bother, he‘s a pretty chilled out baby. How are you? 🤍 3y
BarbaraBB That sounds great, I‘m happy things are going so well! I am fine, all things considered. Still have my job, enjoy quality time with my family but miss the freedom of traveling and spontaneous actions. But our health is the most important of course! Enjoy your time with Alfie, babies are so cute 💝 3y
youneverarrived @BarbaraBB I‘m glad you still have your job and you‘re doing ok 💕 I know what you mean about missing the spontaneity and travel etc. Such a strange time to be living in. I will do ❤️ 3y
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Emilymdxn
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I can see why these short stories are an acquired taste but I really liked them. A mix of post revolution China and Hong Kong and almost Edwardian-English sort of manners, this wasn‘t quite like anything I‘ve ever read before. It seemed to have a different rhythm from anything else Chinese or English. I see why people found it too slow or over-mannered but I really loved it.

BarbaraBB Sounds good. And that cover is perfect ❤️ 4y
batsy Can't get over the cover every time I see it 😍 4y
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Emilymdxn
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Happy Sunday! Well, happy Sunday from your furloughed friend who hasn‘t known what day it is for several months. Today I‘m reading this which has been on my shelf forever and I‘m finally getting around to reading it. Such a striking cover, i can see why I had to buy it at the time lol.

MicheleinPhilly I have no concept of days or dates or even months. I forgot our 10 year wedding anniversary last week. 😬 4y
Jess_Read_This Same. I woke up thinking today was Monday. That book cover startled me, it looks 3D! What a neat cover! 4y
erzascarletbookgasm That‘s a great cover! 4y
Nute Happy Sunday to you, Ms. Emily! Whoa! That book cover is fabulous! I thought that you were holding a sculptured clay mask in your lap. 4y
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alisonrose
Love in a Fallen City | Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang
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I‘m tired & mentally exhausted from a long & busy work week so 1) I don‘t have much to express about this book, and 2) admittedly that might have affected my reading experience. But basically this mostly didn‘t work for me. The writing (or perhaps translation) was kind of odd & stilted but also emotions/reactions were often over the top. The characters were largely flat or clichéd. There was some good commentary but it just didn‘t grab me. 2/5 ⭐️

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alisonrose
Love in a Fallen City | Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang

But how sweet a fruit the “suppose” must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green; a fruit that hides the tart within the sweet.

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alisonrose
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One of my favorite Booktubers (Claire Reads Books—not sure if she‘s on here, there‘s someone with a similar username but it‘s not her) raved about Eileen Chang, and what she said about this collection in particular really got me intrigued. Plus, it was first published in 1943 so it‘ll work for one of the @thereadingwomen challenge prompts! #nowreading

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AshleyHoss820
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This was a fascinating read. We only looked at 4 of her stories for my Non-Western Lit class, but they were otherworldly. We‘ve been reading books that seem to have an old-world-clashing-with-new-world theme. They were brilliant, poignant, moving, and painful. I‘ll be returning to this again once the semester‘s over. “Between memory and reality, there are awkward discrepancies.”

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Tonton
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Short stories by Eileen Chang, about love, longing, family;finding ways to bridge traditional and modern society. Sexual politics, patriarchy clash.Elegant, incisive, lyrical description of a world now gone. Translated from the Chinese by Karen Kingsbury.

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CiViiLy
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Mehso-so

I'm not going to lie, I struggled to get through this book. Maybe it was because I was consciously translating the already translated text into Cantonese in my head but I just couldn't seem to tune into the stories completely. My favourite short story in the books was definitely 'Love in a Fallen City'. It was the only story that I really latched onto in the text. I am glad I read it in the end though.

#ReadHarderChallenge #Challenge17

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CiViiLy
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I don't know much about this collection but I think that's sometimes a good thing.

This is also my book for a classic written by an author of colour for the #readharder challenge.

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RealLifeReading
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#recommendsday everything and anything by the late Eileen Chang. Her stories are usually of troubled relationships, with beautiful cinematic writing, and such attention to detail.

RealLifeReading Also adding this to #womancrushwednesday! 8y
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