#like as a fellow Chinese American. lol. lmao. 😭

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Finished Babél by RF Kuang last week and reflecting on it. What did ppl think of it? I found the writing very heavy handed and didactic but I can see why it is a hit w the intended (?) audience (highly educated white people who haven’t yet discovered that colonialism is a bad thing or a thing at all 🥴) I can also see that this is a topic RFK herself is really grappling with like right immediately now as she is writing it lol. The world building and character archetypes are kind of simplistic but it serves the above mission of dictating an anti-colonialism 101.

I liked the character relationship between Robin and Rami 👍 will be giving my copy to the neighborhood children via the community lending library, I think they could enjoy it.

#this book is kind of out of my wheel house in practice but totally my thing in theory. lol #kind of expected it to have less allegiance to the YA genre but I also never read Poppy War so idk maybe it’s on me #I do think her follow up with yellow face is …… #like as a fellow Chinese American. lol. lmao. 😭 #ppl somehow find this post sometimes I’d like to say that hating on RFK’s approach to the apparent genre of Asian American lit is now a #beloved and regular pastime for me and friends. sorry. #I just don’t think if u talk a big game about being untranslatable to western audiences in ur essays about translation that ur books should #all be written like u want liberal white ppl to think ur smart and no one else