Yellowface

I, you know, I felt like, oh my God, what did I do? I felt like you guys would never let me pick a book again.

And then I thought about Jen, because after Yellowface, you know, she hated The protagonist of Yellowface, she had like this visceral reaction to the protagonist of Yellowface.

And she was like, I didn't want to read this book.

This protagonist was like, whatever.

So like I actively didn't like Katabasis.

I thought Yellow Face was fine, but overhyped.

The Poppy War I thought was fine, but really similar to a bunch of other books that I'd read and I've not felt myself inclined to read the rest of the series.

And then Taipei Story came out this week.

It's because they're not interesting.

Um, You know, RF, oh God, RF Kuang wrote Yellow Face.

Is that her name? Yes.

Right.

Yellow Face.

I love anti-hero books.

I love them.

Yes.

But also R.F. Kuang, one of my favorite authors of all time, like Yellowface.

I just finished Taipei Story.

Oh my God, I, like, literally called my team, and I was like, "Can I meet her? I just would love to talk to her." Like, she is so talented, crazy.

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so rf kwan she has also written a handful of books the really popular trilogy the poppy war right And also a book called Yellow Face, which is kind of a story about her experiences, I believe, growing up as an Asian American.

Elisa has read that one and she says the writing style is very different than Babel.

It's like a much more high stakes, like action packed kind of thing.

I've thought about and written about female jealousy a lot.

That's one of the main themes in Yellowface.

And where I sit now is I think jealousy can be a really good thing.

I was a bit anxious inserting myself into 1830s Victorian England because I thought, I'm not British, I've spent some time at Oxford, I don't know if this qualifies me.

This makes me want to do better.

And I've thought about and written about female jealousy a lot.

That's one of the main themes in Yellowface.

And where I sit now is I think jealousy can be a really good thing.

I wanna read it so bad.

So it has been compared to, like, in, in the essence of the book, to Yellowface.

Did you ever read Yellowface?

I never read Yellowface, but I, I would like to.

Me either.

So this one is similar in that it's basically about this straight wom- also, I saw this video that was saying, like, to be a fruit fly in, like, the queer community is, it, the definition of it is, like, a straight woman who, like, hangs around like a little fruit fly and you swat it away, like, around gay men.

I think it takes place in London, if I'm not mistaken.

Whoa.