Summer Media Round Up
Jun. 21st, 2022 11:10 amMedia round ups are where I talk about things I've been reading an watching recently, so here's some recent media.
A Summer Beyond Your Reach by Xia Jia— This Xia Jia’s, a Chinese science fiction writer, first collection in English. I’ve read many of her stories online and knew I liked her work, so I backed this on Kickstarter years ago. It’s been sitting on my ereader for a while, but recently I was in the right mood to start it. It’s very good! There are some of my old favorites here, but also a bunch of stories I hadn’t read before, many that hadn’t been published in English before.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)— I loved this! It's a story that centers a mother daughter relationship! The multiverse stuff is wacky and fun! There’s a lot of action inspired by martial arts movies. Michelle Yeoh was great! The whole thing is extremely my jam!
City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China by Linda Rui Feng— This book turned out to be as much about stories about Chang’an as it was about the city itself. But I’m interested in both of those things, so it worked out. It's clearly part of a very active historical discussion about Tang lit and also the history of the civil service exams. So reading it felt a bit like coming into a conversion that has been going on for a long time and trying to understand it.
( Girls' Last Tour, Beryl and Sapphire, All the Horses of Iceland, and Furari )
A Summer Beyond Your Reach by Xia Jia— This Xia Jia’s, a Chinese science fiction writer, first collection in English. I’ve read many of her stories online and knew I liked her work, so I backed this on Kickstarter years ago. It’s been sitting on my ereader for a while, but recently I was in the right mood to start it. It’s very good! There are some of my old favorites here, but also a bunch of stories I hadn’t read before, many that hadn’t been published in English before.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)— I loved this! It's a story that centers a mother daughter relationship! The multiverse stuff is wacky and fun! There’s a lot of action inspired by martial arts movies. Michelle Yeoh was great! The whole thing is extremely my jam!
City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China by Linda Rui Feng— This book turned out to be as much about stories about Chang’an as it was about the city itself. But I’m interested in both of those things, so it worked out. It's clearly part of a very active historical discussion about Tang lit and also the history of the civil service exams. So reading it felt a bit like coming into a conversion that has been going on for a long time and trying to understand it.
( Girls' Last Tour, Beryl and Sapphire, All the Horses of Iceland, and Furari )
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