identity metamorphosis: exploring the blasian perspective~
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First Entry pt. 1: Exploring the Blasian Perspective
Here’s the thing: people love to make assumptions about other people. Everyone knows that. The lesser common knowledge about this is that we also make assumptions about ourselves, based on our past experiences and watching how we act in certain situations. We learn that we can only live in this world as our one true…
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Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Overview Ladies and gentlemen, let us look together through our hearts, search engines and our little devices for a more devastating novel. Perhaps for the first time in my life I avoided writing a review not because of procrastination, but because I was afraid to look at it again, to put myself back in the…
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First Entry pt. 2: Exploring the Human Perspective
Why I am starting this blog? Well, I’ve always considered writing to be one of my strong suits, until I recently got a B- on a 10 page research paper. Starting from high school and later on in college, I’ve tried loosening the hold academic validation has on me; yet sometimes I think of academia as…
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Review: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Overview A long time ago, when I was younger, my Japanese mother told me to read this book. At that time, it hadn’t occurred to me that this was the one thing my mother loved with her whole heart that was Chinese — but she loved this book, and even watched the movie with me, so…
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Review: If Cats Disappeared From the World by Kawamura Genki
Genki Kawamura’s If Cats Disappeared From the World is a love letter to a mother, a father, and a cat—or cats, plural. Kawamura’s novel was well-written and personal, as if the narrator kept glancing in a mirror every five minutes, forcing himself to be truthful. I love series, I love gigantic books, so I was…
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