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The Fantastic Tale of ‘Foul Lady Fortune’
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From elegant metaphors to drastic tone shifts even within the same chapter, Gong’s prose is a delight to read and is sure to attract both new and returning readers.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/arts/books/page/2/)
From elegant metaphors to drastic tone shifts even within the same chapter, Gong’s prose is a delight to read and is sure to attract both new and returning readers.
Reading one of Ms. Colleen Hoover’s books is basically a rite of passage for contemporary romance readers, so I suggest you pick this one up if you haven’t!
Oct. 13, at 12:20 p.m. — The English lounge was packed with people sitting under a shroud of excited silence. They were all there for the Refugeography, Bao Phi’s introductory event to the Cornell community. Bao Phi, a Visiting Critic in the Department of Literatures in English for this academic year, has won the Minnesota Grand Slam twice, made it to the finals for the National Poetry Slam and has written three heavily awarded children’s books. After Bao Phi was introduced on stage, he confessed that this event would be his first time performing in-person since March 2020 — no one would have been able to realize.
In the end, that was what struck me most about this novel — “The People We Keep” explores the vulnerability of opening up, whether through your art or your relationships with others, and it uses a familiar location to do so.
If you enjoy rich, detailed worldbuilding and poignant exploration of social issues through speculative fiction, then this series is for you.
If you, like me, are looking forward to some reading this summer, let’s embark on this ill-fated journey together. Will we achieve our reading goals? Almost certainly not. Will we still enjoy the act of resistance that is leisure in a society that values only productivity? We must — or perish.
“In the Lateness of the World” is Forché’s most recent book, her first new collection of poetry in seventeen years. In it, she writes on subjects ranging from the global to the personal — from war-scarred history to a visitation to a lighthouse, from dawn over Paros to the death of a friend.
If you’re interested in high-tech space battles, themes of culture and identity, LGBTQ+ romance or elaboration on worldbuilding from the previous book — then this book might be for you!
In a week where my words would inevitably have failed me, I’ve compiled a brief list of poetry recommendations instead.
It remains to be seen whether such forms of storytelling will catch on and eventually turn the physical, printed book into what the medieval codex is today.