#mary h k choi

[abigail-abridged-summaries]

"It wasn't until I lived on my own that my mom and dad became these other people to me," she says. "Not that whole, Oh, my parents are flawed humans' thing. I've known that for a while. My dad has never been a regular fixture, but it's only recently that I can accept that without being mad at him." She shifts in my arms.

"That's what I mean by other people. It's not my responsibility to get to the bottom of why my mom's so unhappy. Nor is it on me to teach my dad how to parent. I love them and I forgive them, but I don't go to the hardware store looking for orange juice and I don't expect them to give me things they don't have. I give myself permission not to spend time with them. Thank god for abuela, though. I don't know what I'd do without her."

#permanent record #mary h k choi #ya books #book quotes #ya romance #ya realistic fiction

[linusjf]

Mary H K Choi: Fall early, reach early

“It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early.”— Mary H.K. Choi.

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#Mary H K Choi

[intotheescape]

books that looked interesting on my last bookstore visit

#bookblr #i honestly don't remember the yolk synopsis but i took the picture so it must have been good #disability #lgbtqia #asexuality #ace representation #disability representation #lgbtq representation #lgbtq reads #disability reads #where you see yourself #claire forrest #yolk #mary h. k. choi #being ace #being ace anthology #madeline dyer #transgender #ace transgender #ace trans representation #anthology #forget me not #alyson derrick #book lover #book covers #diverse reads #diverse representation #lesbian reads #my post #my photos

[bubblesandpages]

“If I so much as see you at H Mart"—I get right in his face—"or even Sunrise Mart, I will fucking ruin you."

This part was quite funny, actually.

#Yolk #Mary H. K. Choi #fizzy talk

[bethly126]

Quick Review: Yolk by Mary H.k. Choi

Yolk by Mary H.k. Choi This is the story of Jayne and June Baek. They are two estranged sisters who were once very close. They are completely different people. June, the older sister, has a job in finance and an upscale apartment. Jayne is in school for fashion design and lives in an illegal sublet in Brooklyn. They moved from Seoul to San Antonio, Texas and somehow grew apart. Now they’re in…

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#audiobooks #diverse stacks #Kate listens #Kate reads #library books #Mary H. K. Choi

[meeghanreads]

Top 5 female authors

Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 female authors!! You know, with all of the posts we’ve written for Top 5 Tuesday, I was really surprise we hadn’t done a specific top 5 female authors. Like, we do a top 5 new (to me) authors every year, last year we did an old (to me) authors list, and an authors we want to try list. Then when Shanah was hosting, we did the…

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#Authors #Books #Emily McGovern #Female authors #International Women&039;s Day #Jessica Townsend #Mary H. K. Choi #Nina Kenwood #Read #Sophie Anderson #Top 5 Tuesday #Women authors

[madamescarlette]

JUNE 2023 (Wherever you are, it's okay, you can come back from it. There's more, there's always more.)

Ocean Vuong / Lee Young-ri / Jack Gilbert / Franny Choi / Unknown / Linda Gregg / D. H. Lawrence / James Bartelle / Ottessa Moshfegh / Kyla Jamieson / Phoebe Bridgers / agoera / The Japanese House / kry_aia / Paramore / Kenneth Steven / Jess Allen / Jay Wright / Jenny George / Mary Oliver / Ursula K. Le Guin / Heikala

#web weaving #i mightttt remake this later on but you know i'm just pressing send it's fine #i just had a bug in my ear that it might be fun to make a weave that goes from night to dawn to day to afternoon to evening :-)

[tragedies-and-dreams]

His eyes were red and wet, but he wore a strange smile, it was composed of cruelty and shame and delight.

No one is going to fix you for you, I thought to myself when I got home, giving myself a good hard stare in my bathroom mirror. But like all revelations, it didn’t last long.

i'm not feeling good at all (part ii): mirrors, tears, & smiles

Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi / / / Euphoria / / / Luster by Raven Leilani / / / I May Destroy You / / / Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi / / / The Fits / / / Writers & Lovers by Lily King / / / Midsommar dir. Ari Aster / / / Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin / / / Possession dir. Andrzej Żuławski / / / Giovanni's Room by Baldwin / / / Lady Vengeance dir. Park Chan-wook / / /  The Four Humors by Mina Seçkin / / / I, Tonya dir. Craig Gillespie / / / Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon / / / Sea Change  by Gina Chung / / / Either/Or by Elif Batuman / / / The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath / / / A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara / / / Either/Or by Batuman / / / Edinburgh by Alexander Chee / / / The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett / / / Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas / / / The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

#compilations #words words words #beautiful words #haunting #tears #i'm not feeling good at all #web weaving #my own stuff #quotes on tears #quotes on mirrors #reflections #the mirror self #happiness is not for me #elif batuman #james baldwin #hanya yanigahara #ann patchett #catherine house #cormac mccarthy #park chan wook #midsommar #i may destroy you #alexander chee #i tonya #lily king #luster #yaa gyasi #raven leilani #Mary H.K. Choi #possession

[theenarrator]

I rated every book I read in March, thought I might share 🪻

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - 6/10

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 10/10

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler - 2/10

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - 8/10

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center - 2/10

Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi - 7/10

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford - 8/10

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan - 4/10

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green - 5/10

February January

#the lightning theif #the perks of being a wallflower #home field advantage #the song of achilles #the bodyguard #yolk #the many daughters of afong moy #the sea of monsters #booklr #turtles all the way down

[twinnedpeaks]

any books you’d rec that are similar to a touch of jen? and have you read self care by leigh stein?

i have not read that but will check it out!! and sure, here are some recs!

milkfed by melissa broder, yolk by mary h k choi, a certain hunger by chelsea g summers, tripping arcadia by kit mayquist, penance by eliza clark, insatiable by daisy buchanan, sharp edges by leah mol, supper club by lara williams, brainwyrms by alison rumfitt, so happy for you by celia laskey, big swiss by jen beagin, pretend i’m dead by jen beagin, sedating elaine by dawn winter, mrs s by k patrick, brutes by dizz tate, patricia wants to cuddle by samantha allen, little rabbit by alyssa songsiridej, sugar baby by celine saintclare

[justsome-di]

Current read with matching nails: Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi

#current read #booklr #books #nail art

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: Perfect for fans of Ben Philippe and Mary H. K. Choi, this charming, insightful YA novel follows two high school students who form a complicated, ground-shifting bond while filming a movie.

High school junior Felix Ma wants to prove to his parents that he’s not a quitter. After crashing out of piano lessons and competitive ping-pong, Felix starts a film club at his school in a last-ditch attempt to find a star extracurricular for his college applications.

Then he meets Cassie Chow, a bubbly high school senior who shares Felix’s anxieties about the future and complicated relationship with parental expectations. Felix feels drawn to Cassie for reasons he can’t quite articulate, so as an excuse to see her more, he invites Cassie to star in his short film.

The project starts out as a lighthearted mockumentary. But at the urging of Felix’s college admissions coach, who wants to turn the film into essay material, it soon morphs into a serious drama about the emotional scars that parents leave on their kids. As Felix and Cassie uncover their most painful memories, Cassie starts to balk at opening her wounds for the camera.

With his parents and college admissions coach hot on his heels, Felix discovers painful truths about himself and his past—and must decide whether pleasing his parents is worth losing his closest friend.

Review:

A great story about friendship, growth, and what it means to change. When two high schoolers who constantly run into each other end up working on a film, their friendship begins to change... and the question of who they are becoming forces them to face difficult questions. Felix Ma is a high school junior who constantly finds himself into Cassie Chow, a bubbly high school senior. Felix and Cassie begin a friendship and Felix knows he has to do something to make his college app stands out so he decides to make a film and asks Cassie to be the main star... but the story of the film begins to feel a little too real, a little too much about Cassie, and thus the question between what the movie means to both of them begins to change as well as their friendship. Felix has to face difficult questions about himself and how he treats his friends, about the costs of wanting to please his friends but at the cost of hurting his closest friend... and what he's going to do about it. This was a really interesting story about a teen coming to understand his feelings and treatment of people in his life, of growing and trying to decide who he wants to be. Felix isn't a bad person, he is growing and he is learning to change, his friendship with Cassie was really the highlight of the story and I really enjoyed how this book ended. This is a great read for anyone who enjoys a coming of age story.

*Thanks Netgalley and HarperCollins Children's Books, Quill Tree Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #bookish #the ping pong queen of chinatown

[upside-down-uni]

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

thank you for tagging me @the---hermit, i hate it here this is evil >:(

I present in no particular order, my 20 books to keep:

Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (I'm guessing I'll be allowed to borrow GtN from you from time to time)

When The Angels Left The Old Country - Sacha Lamb

Middlegame - Seanan McGuire

Blutbuch - Kim de l'Horizon

Bartimäus: Das Amulett von Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

The Humans - Matt Haig

Snapdragon - Kat Leyh

(Un)Sichtbar Gemacht: Perspektiven auf Aromantik und Asexualität - Annika Baumgart, Katharina Kroschel

Hell Followed With Us - Andrew White

The Tarot Sequence: The Hanged Man - K. D. Edwards

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (and other lessons from the crematory) - Caitlin Doughty

A Cruelty Special To Our Species - Emily Jungmin Yoon

Radio Silence - Alice Oseman

She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

Reckless - Cornelia Funke

Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

Yolk - Mary H. K. Choi

When Women Were Dragons - Kelley Barnhill

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites - Joy Demorra

i am inflicting this on (aka tagging): @smallfrenchstudyblr @edify-notes and @study-clouds

#tag game #tagged #ough this is no fun i never want to do it again #how will i survive without my emotional support books????

[bubblesandpages]

for the ask a bookworm thing: 1 + every multiple of 5 :D

What are you currently reading?

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair. I'm having a lot of trouble focusing on it, but I think that might be owed to my reading burnout due to a cascade of library loans in back-to-back months.

Where do you love to read?

The floor. I swear the only reason I am able to get into a pigeon pose is because of the amount of time I spend lying contorted on the ground.

How many books have you read in total?

No idea ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ . I setup my current Goodreads account in 2016, and it says 905, though a good number of those were books I read as a child.

This year I've read 137 books, about half of them are manga and picture books because I do not have the focus and time to read that many printed words.

Can you read anywhere? moving vehicle? rollercoaster?

Noooooooooooo. Cars often make me sick while reading, and I spent the whole time I was on a roller the first time praying to get off it. I can read while walking, I have fulfilled that bookworm trope of reading while cooking, and consequently having my hand burnt by overflowing rice pudding, but generally I need to know I'll be uninterrupted, and have plenty of floorspace!

Can you read in other languages?

I wish very limited Turkish. And I can technically read but do not yet understand Arabic.

Do you read reviews on a book before you read it?

Depends. If it's a reviewer I follow, or a book I find while browsing online than yes, I'll probably check if anyone I know has reviewed it, and the average rating. I find things tend to go worse for me if I spend too much time looking at people's reviews? Though sometimes reading one star reviews of a book I'm hating is the only way for me to get through it. Maybe I should just practice dnf-ing more.

At this point my favorite way of experiencing a book is hearing one vaguely good opinion about it, retaining none of the reviewers actual points, and trying it out. My favorite favorite option is seeing a book at the library, conferring with the blurb before marching off with it to find the nearest available flooring. 

Favorite book this year?

We do have some standouts from the crowd! A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi, Cheese in the Trap by Soonkki, Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak, and Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. 

Thank you for the ask!

#Fizzy talks #books #reading #maybe I'll make a post later on my top reads of the year

[mistwraiths]

2.5 stars

I do always tend to enjoy Mary H. K. Choi's books but Yolk was a really hard book to like.

The characters in this book are deeply flawed and unlikable, and the story covers heavy topics such as bulimia, cancer, mental illness, binging, body dysmorphya, and others. It's beautifully sad.

I love sister books and this one definitely felt more like a realistic relationship because I have a sister and we're both quite shitty towards each other and say mean things. But we also help each other and have good moments. Jayne and June are quite fucking awful to each other, often to the point even I am like damn.

Jayne was an absolute MESS and self-sabotages so much, but I could sympathize with her anxiety and even her hatred of her own body. I do kind of wish that we got to be in June's headspace as well, I think that would have helped us understand her better and given us a break from Jayne and her life.

I like that June had the help she couldn't get herself to ask for. I like that Jayne also was getting help for her binging and bulimia. I still feel disappointed with it overall. I finished it and just felt wanting more of everything that these sisters needed. The cancer bit always felt not as prevalent despite it being the main point these sisters were talking again. I expected this book to make me super emotional but it really wasn't.

#yolk #mary h.k. choi #steph's book review #steph reads #book review

[bethly126]

What I’m Listening to Now: Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi

A book set in contemporary times on Earth! How unusual for this year! This is a novel with two sisters at the center and that’s all I remember about it. The library didn’t have access to it for awhile, but it does now and I’m excited to check it out!

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#audible #audiobooks #Kate listens #Kate reads #library books