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vinca-majors · 3 months

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Yangsze Choo in conversation - St. Louis 2/21/24

Yangsze Choo is one of my favorite authors (The Ghost Bride is one of my favorite books ever) and last week she came to STL for her The Fox Wife book tour! I wrote up a little summary of the things she said about herself and her novels for anyone interested.

Her name is pronounced Yong-shee

She was warm, humble, funny, gracious, relaxed, and genuinely kind

She is very petite (I'd be surprised if she clears 5') and has a lovely, precise British accent reminiscent of Julie Andrews because she attended British schools when growing up

While she currently lives in California, she is Malaysian and spent parts of her childhood in Germany and Japan

This was her first time visiting Missouri and she only had the kindest things to say about it (this was heartwarming to everyone in attendance since flyover states get no love)

She is a slow writer and her drafts always have an excessively large word count

She never uses outlines "because I don't think like that" and blames her slow writing on this; her husband says if she would use outlines maybe there would be "less howling and rolling on the floor"

"There are thousands of good books that people could be reading. I am honored that people choose to read mine."

The Ghost Bride

One of her favorite scenes is the first chapter

She wrote a trial scene in the Courts of Hell but it was cut for wordcount

Pre-publication, she figured only her "mother and her hairdresser" would read it

Her older sister's feedback on a draft was that there wasn't enough romance and that what there was "is creepy"; her father's feedback was that it didn't read like classic literature; "With a family like this, who needs critics?"

She wanted to be the audiobook reader because many of the Malaysian words in the book have a specific pronunciation; she had to audition to do it "because usually voice actors do this unless you're Neil Gaiman"; the audition was in a studio in New York the day after Neil himself had been there ("I was like 'Can I touch everything that he touched?'")

She was in Trader Joe's when she got the call from her agent that Netflix wanted to make a screen adaptation - "'Give it to them! Give it to them!'"

She wasn't interested in writing the screenplay for the Netflix adaptation - "Novel writing and screenwriting are very different things."

She didn't have a problem with the book's ugly villain being played by a handsome actor - "That's Hollywood"

The Night Tiger

Her audiobook recording was an Audie Award Finalist - "My publisher says I should tell people that more often."

The Fox Wife

It is a story about "others", "what's on the other side of the door", first love, and is "a love story for old people"

Her favorite Austen is Persuasion and that inspired the elements of "regret and do-overs"

She said most ancient Chinese myths about foxes are about the human men who subdue the beautiful, wily female foxes and bear sons by them who pass the Imperial Exams; she wanted a story from the fox's point of view

She wrote it practically in the order that it reads and wrote the two timelines concurrently

The margins are wide and include footnotes because ancient Chinese scrolls had margins for readers to write notes in, which were incorporated into rewrites of those scrolls; this was also a way for women to engage with other female readers in a time when only men could gather to discuss literature and philosophy

She loves the footnotes in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and was inspired to include asides/short stories in the footnotes of her own novel

Her first draft was 240,000 words long - she had to cut the bulk of the footnotes, a whole character, an entire arc, and "another murder"

She calls herself 'an old auntie' and doesn't know who the hot Asian actors are today, but her fancast for Kuro is Toshiro Mifune

If she could spend the day as any of her characters she would be Snow because she's "always wanted to run along rooftops and along garden walls"

Her favorite scene is—(looking at my bookmark at the halfway point) "Well, I won't spoil it for you. I love the last scene."

4th novel

It's about plants because she loves plants - she regularly listens to the NPR gardening podcast

She has always thought that ginseng root looks like a human baby; this book will be about a ginseng root that is a fairy changeling

At heart it's about parenthood

#yangsze choo #the fox wife #the ghost bride #the night tiger #i almost cheered out loud when she said toshiro mifune bc he was specifically how i'd been imagining kuro

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rhosynviteri · 1 year

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Yangsze Choo really said what about one-bed trope but with step-siblings 👉🏻👈🏻

#the night tiger #yangsze choo #books #currently reading #she really made some... interesting choices

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studywithjennifer · 2 years

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The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Book 12/50 of 2022

Date Finished: 2nd February 2022

Rating: 3/5

#books #literature #reading #bookworm #bookblr #the night tiger #yangsze choo #malaysian literature #historical fiction

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sawreadreviewed · 6 months

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Very belated addition! Nettle tea (blocking out the library sticker) and The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo. Read it over the weekend without stopping. Not mind-blowing writing, but engaging characters and beautifully evoked setting (1930s Malasia). Bonus points for peppering in not one but several languages in a way that didn’t make suspension of disbelief difficult. I’ll read whatever Choo cares to write!! Also, this book deserves a better cover. They did her wrong.

#the night tiger #adult booklr #tomes and tea #South East Asian literature #yangsze choo

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goryhorroor · 8 months

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mike flanagan's favorite horror movies

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carica-ficus · 2 years

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Recenzija: Noćni Tigar

Originalan naslov: The Night Tiger: A Novel

Autor: Yangsze Choo

Datum: 27/05/2022

Ocjena: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Obožavam čitati knjige koje me mogu uvući u neki nepoznati svijet ili drugu kulturu, a "Noćni Tigar" ovaj puta mi pruža pogled u život u Malaziju.

Površno, priča zadire unutar neke slabe definicije krimića ili trilera, sa određenom količinom misterija koji obavija glavnog pokretača radnje - nestali prst. No u svojim temeljima, knjiga je prikaz i komentar na praznovjerje, kulturu, društvena očekivanja i predrasude koje naveliko sputavaju glavne likove pri ostvarenju svojih ciljeva.

Makar sam se u potpunosti udubila u radnju i fantastične likove, razvoj događaja možda je previše isprepleten. Choo je očita imala jasnu predodžbu za pojedine događaje u knjizi, no samo povezivanje tih dijelova predstavio joj je problem. Određene situacije su nepotrebne za samu knjigu, a najčešće su to interakcije između likova u namjeri da ih dodatno razradi, što je nepotrebno jer su oni već dovoljno definirani. Mislim da je bar djelomično mogla te dijelove skratiti ili ih uključiti na neko drugo mjesto.

Radnja se odvija relativno sporo i preskače sa jedne teme na drugu stoga tempo ponekad ne odgovara situacijama, no, sve u svemu, knjiga zbilja nije loše. Dapače, meni se jako svidjela te mislim da je vrijedi pročitati.

#moja recenzija #recenzija #reading #2022 #book #knjiga #rc2022 #čitanje #book review #noćni tigar #the night tiger: a novel #the night tiger #yangsze choo

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browsethestacks · 2 months

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Tigra

Art by Bruce Timm

#Comics #Marvel Comics #Tigra #Bruce Timm #Women Of Marvel #Greer Nelson #Art #Marvel #Cats #Horror #Horror Comics #The Cat #Cat #Hydra #Werewolf By Night #Kraven The Hunter #Tigers #Cat People

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prosy-days · 2 years

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July 7, 2022 - Day 18

I'm gonna make my summer reading goals.

#365 #7.7.2022 #Day 18 #books #reading #summer reading #Love & Other Disasters #Anita Kelly #Unlocked #John Scalzi #Sensor #Junji Ito #The Night Tiger #Yangze Choo #Seek You #Kristen Radtke #beer

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deceased-bunny · 1 year

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Moon Cuddles

#comfy bedroom #tiger oc #lofi aesthetic #night aesthetic #trans artist #comfy room #bobcat oc #tiger furry #lofi vibes #trans furry #bobcat furry #trans art #purple aesthetic #monster cans #deadbunny #2022 #myart

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poorlittleyaoyao · 1 month

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The Second Flautist remains the stupidest but also funniest adaptation choice. Su Minshan, heretofore portrayed as a cringefail loser who needed Wangxian and Wen Ning to save his ass from the Waterborne Abyss, overrides Wei Wuxian’s demonic cultivation abilities TWICE. Not only does he seize control of Wen Ning, but he manipulates the resentment summoned by Wei Wuxian to attack people and turn them into puppets at Nightless City SO EFFECTIVELY that Wei Wuxian cannot regain control of them even on an individual basis with the Yin Tiger Tally helping him.

Su Minshan, true Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, is the most overpowered character in the entire series, and we must therefore conclude that he chooses to be Jin Guangyao’s devoted henchman rather than seizing any power for himself because he finds it personally fulfilling.

#Su Minshan #tagging it so ppl can then go to the notes and find the good reblogs!#love that we never see JGY during the entire battle #I assume he is sitting in a little corner somewhere telling SMS what a good job he is doing which is all the compensation he needs 😌#for real tho in their insistence on making WWX blameless they made him fuckin weaksauce #and also… dumb? like if he’s NOT a hubristic little shit who’s showing off on night hunts with his pet zombie #then why insist on keeping the Tiger Tally? why not surrender it to JC or something if he doesn’t want to maladaptively cling to power?#masala necromancy wizard hour

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unit-ssn0va · 1 year

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