Ruoxi Chen Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/ruoxi-chen/ before I read the middle Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:57:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://readingtheend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-reading-the-end-with-words-2-32x32.jpg Ruoxi Chen Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/ruoxi-chen/ 32 32 53371782 Fixing the Great British Bake-Off: A Links Round-Up https://readingtheend.com/2020/10/30/fixing-the-great-british-bake-off-a-links-round-up/ https://readingtheend.com/2020/10/30/fixing-the-great-british-bake-off-a-links-round-up/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:00:23 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=9884 Are you snappy with your loved ones? Incapable of focusing on a task, even by the unfocused standards of 2020? Well, don’t worry, because everyone else is in the exact same boat! It’s a horrible, leaky boat, and we all hate it here! Remember when there were nice things and we liked those things? How nostalgic I feel for the time of nice things, such as “seeing friends in different cities” and “going to the grocery store” and “not feeling miffed when I saw a stranger’s nose while standing in a building.” Hopefully by the time I do my next…

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]]> Are you snappy with your loved ones? Incapable of focusing on a task, even by the unfocused standards of 2020? Well, don’t worry, because everyone else is in the exact same boat! It’s a horrible, leaky boat, and we all hate it here! Remember when there were nice things and we liked those things? How nostalgic I feel for the time of nice things, such as “seeing friends in different cities” and “going to the grocery store” and “not feeling miffed when I saw a stranger’s nose while standing in a building.” Hopefully by the time I do my next links round-up, there will be better news, and a good future to look forward to. Or at least a future that doesn’t feel 100% doomed? IDK. Just like, eat however much cake and drink however much wine you need to get you through the next fortnight or so.

Never doubt that if there is a good article about The Westing Game, I will include that article in my links round-up. The Westing Game 5ever! (link)

Someone has to stop Paul Hollywood. Brian Phillips has a plan. (link)

The bind of being first. (link)

A fact: I will virtually ALWAYS pick up a whodunnit set in India & written by an Indian author. (link)

Catullus is a wonderful, rebellious, vulgar mess. Also, Cy Twombly. Because why wouldn’t Anne Carson write about both? God, I love Anne Carson. (link)

Talia Levin wrote about white supremacist online spaces, and the results are… expectedly horrifying. She talks about it here with ZORA‘s Anjali Enjeti. (link)

Rediscovering women authors from the heyday of ghost stories. (link)

This piece about anonymous Republican critics of Trump is a biting indictment of its own genre. (link)

I am Second Murderer but I did quietly disapprove of Macbeth’s policies. (a companion piece to the above) (link)

DOLLY PARTON. That is all. (link)

An appreciation of Witch Week. (link)

Nisi Shawl is very smart on the topic of what to think about when you’re considering writing a story about a marginalization you don’t share. (link)

This is a wonderful interview with two wonderful romance authors, Olivia Dade and Rebekah Weatherspoon! (link)

And this is an also-wonderful interview with some of my favorite SFF editors, talking about how SFF has changed and where it’s headed. (link)

Dwight K. Schrute kinda typifies our Political Moment, which makes it hard to watch him. I personally stopped my The Office rewatch sometime in season four because I couldn’t take Dwight OR Jim OR Michael, so ban men, basically. (link)

I guess “ban men” is not a bad note to leave things on! Stay safe out there, friends!

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]]> https://readingtheend.com/2020/10/30/fixing-the-great-british-bake-off-a-links-round-up/feed/ 1 9884 Some thoughts on media I haven’t yet consumed: A links round-up https://readingtheend.com/2019/02/22/some-thoughts-on-media-i-havent-yet-consumed-a-links-round-up/ https://readingtheend.com/2019/02/22/some-thoughts-on-media-i-havent-yet-consumed-a-links-round-up/#respond Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:00:55 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=9208 Some very smart SF people talking about A People’s Future of the United States. The time Virgina Woolf wore blackface. Kat Eschner wonders if it’s time to put aside the Little House books. (It’s a strong yes from me, but I was also never that into them. So.) What does the nostalgia for old-school publishing actually want to return to? (Hint: white dudes.) What does it mean when studios embargo reviews on a movie? Emily Asher-Perrin rocks, and this take on gender fluidity and Steven Universe and She-Ra is very very good. Why do so many books include the tagline…

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]]> Some very smart SF people talking about A People’s Future of the United States.

The time Virgina Woolf wore blackface.

Kat Eschner wonders if it’s time to put aside the Little House books. (It’s a strong yes from me, but I was also never that into them. So.)

What does the nostalgia for old-school publishing actually want to return to? (Hint: white dudes.)

What does it mean when studios embargo reviews on a movie?

Emily Asher-Perrin rocks, and this take on gender fluidity and Steven Universe and She-Ra is very very good.

Why do so many books include the tagline “A Novel“?

Talking to strangers on the subway about books.

In case you somehow haven’t heard me raving about One Day at a Time yet, here are 19 things that are great about it. What a great show. Watch it now on Netflix so we can all get the fourth season we deserve.

Happy weekend!

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