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Paranormal Bromance - Carrie Vaughn. Read more... )

Spirits Abroad - Zen Cho. Read more... )

Succubus Shadows - Richelle Mead. Read more... )

Discord's Apple - Carrie Vaughn. Read more... )
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Remember when I used to actually read books? More than occasionally? ;____;

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle - Steven Pressfield. Read more... )

Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game - Robert K. Fitts. Read more... )

30 Days of Becoming a Better Japanese Learner - Koichi@tofugu.com. Read more... )

Building Diaspora: Filipino Cultural Formation on the Internet - Emily Noelle Ignacio. Read more... )
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Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga - Jennifer S. Prough. Read more... )

A Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Images of the Life, Loves, and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Japanese Women - Ito Kinko. Read more... )
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Half World - Hiromi Goto. Read more... )

Ash - Malinda Lo. Read more... )

Moxyland - Lauren Beukes. Read more... )

Returning My Sister's Face And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice - Eugie Foster. Read more... )

Liar - Justine Larbalestier. Read more... )

The Other Lands - David Anthony Durham. Read more... )

The Choir Boats - Daniel A. Rabuzzi. Read more... )

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture - Edited by Roger J. Davies and Osamu Ikeno. Read more... )

Popco - Scarlett Thomas. Read more... )
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin. Read more... )

Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation - Jeff Chang. Read more... )

The Sound of Paper: Inspiration & Practical Guidance for Starting the Creative Process - Julia Cameron. Read more... )

Undercurrents: Queer Culture & Postcolonial Hong Kong - Helen Hok-Sze Leung. Read more... )

The End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas. Read more... )

The Parson's Widow - Marja-Liisa Vartio. Read more... )
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A Wizard of Mars - Diane Duane. SPOILERS AHOY )

One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now - Edited by Melissa Chiu, Karin Higa, and Susette S. Min. Read more... )

Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress - Edited by Sandra Niessen, Ann Marie Leshkowich and Carla Jones. Read more... )
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Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet - Edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse. Read more... )

Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia - Edited by Timothy J. Craig and Richard King. Read more... )

Wizard's Holiday - Diane Duane. Read more... )

Wizards at War - Diane Duane. Read more... )
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For those of you reading on LJ: I've now imported this journal onto Dreamwidth, but will continue to cross-post to LJ (with comments at DW only; more info in the footer at the bottom of this entry).

Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World - Edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. Read more... )

Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism - Koichi Iwabuchi. Read more... )

The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - Julia Cameron. Read more... )
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The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader - Edited by Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huat. This is a dense, 600-page academic anthology & as such took me ages to work through. Very much worth it, though, to read cultural studies stuff about Asia by Asians living in Asia; there just isn't enough exposure for this sort of writing in the West yet. Particularly important to me was that the anthology focused on how countries & cultures relate to each other; while the West is still referred to within the texts, to some degree, it's not the main point for comparison.

The most interesting articles to me tended to focus on pop culture, for example how two stars (one Taiwanese, one Korean) faced significant setbacks in their careers because they didn't fulfill cultural expectations about stars being patriotic. Another article discusses how one would frame an East Asian popular culture; how do Japanese or Korean dramas, for example, fare in other East Asian nations? How do alternative bands in Hong Kong, & the emotional energies they create, tie in with political unrest (even when the bands themselves may be largely apolitical)? How was World Cup fandom in Korea gendered & why was women's increased participation as fans such a big deal? There were also articles on peace activism & social movements more generally, state violence, colonialism & war.

Though there were articles covering a fair number of Asian countries in total, I did feel like the book was still rather lopsided in what countries and cultures were most represented. Perhaps a future anthology could help rectify that. Overall a tough but important read; some of the pieces were too academic in tone for my taste but that's usual with any anthology of this type. I really wished I had friends around who were reading this with me to discuss things with!
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Vibrator - Mari Akasaka (translated by Michael Emmerich). Read more... )

When I Forgot - Elina Hirvonen (translated by Douglas Robinson). Read more... )

Nine Layers of Sky - Liz Williams. Read more... )
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The Red Carpet - Lavanya Sankaran. Read more... )

Girls of Riyadh - Rajaa Alsanea. Read more... )

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro. Read more... )
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Londonstani - Gautam Malkani. Read more... )

As Long As Nothing Happens, Nothing Will - Zhang Jie. Read more... )

Gorilla, My Love - Toni Cade Bambara. Read more... )

The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 3: Carnival of Feminist SF - Edited by Liz Henry. Read more... )

A Letter to My Father: Growing Up Filipina & American - Helen Madamba Mossman. Read more... )

Mella & the N'anga: An African Tale - Gail Nyoka. Read more... )
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World - Vijay Prashad. Read more... )

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang. Read more... )

Shanghai Tango: A Memoir - Jin Xing. Read more... )

Chinese Whispers: The true story behind Britain's hidden army of labour - Hsiao-Hung Pai. Read more... )

Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Read more... )

The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain - Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe. Read more... )
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Air - Geoff Ryman. Read more... )

Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women - Edited by Asian Women United of California. Read more... )

Succubus on Top - Richelle Mead. Read more... )

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live - Martha Beck. Read more... )

Days of Disquiet, Nights of Rage: The First Quarter Storm and Related Events - Jose F. Lacaba. Read more... )

Romancing the Dead - Tate Hallaway. Read more... )

Wolf Tales - Kate Douglas. Read more... )

Topography of War: Asian American Essays - Edited by Andrea Louie & Johnny Lew. Read more... )
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The Emotional Lives of Animals - Marc Bekoff. Read more... )

Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World - Bob Torres and Jenna Torres. Read more... )

The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient - Sheridan Prasso. Read more... )

Tantalize - Cynthia Leitich Smith. Read more... )

Name Me Nobody - Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Read more... )

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back - Michele Simon. Read more... )

Heads by Harry - Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Read more... )

The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind - Ken Foster. Read more... )

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