#Rachel Ng

[thedalatribune]

© Paolo Dala

Important Food Adventure Notes

Pad Thai from a Bangkok street vendor or raw milk cheese from a bistro in France taste delicious in the moment. But for many travelers, the local dishes that make trips meaningful sometimes give them food poisoning - and the wrong sort of vacation memories.

By some metrics, gastrointestinal infections related to food or water affect 30 to 70 percent of all travelers during or immediately after their trips, according to a 2015 study in BMJ Clinical Evidence. Each year, one in six Americans and nearly one in 10 people worldwide suffer from such illnesses caused by bacteria (E. coli, salmonella, listeria), viruses (norovirus, hepatitis A), or parasites (giardiasis, roundworms, tapeworms).

Lower-income countries have a reputation for putting travelers at a higher risk for food poisoning, but people are just as likely to be sickened from an improperly handled meal in Italy or Australia - or from some sushi at their local supermarket.

There are 31 major known pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses, including norovirus, salmonella, E. coli, clostridium perfringens, and campylobacter. Depending on the bacteria, parasite, or virus, symptoms could include a few hours to a week of diarrhea and vomiting, plus stomach cramps, fever, or body aches. The most likely culprits? Raw or undercooked chicken, turkey, or meat; raw milk; raw fruits and vegetables; shellfish; and food stored in unsafe temperatures (e.g. an open-air buffet) or prepared in an unsanitary way.

Or the water might be making you sick. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 180 countries (including popular destinations the Maldives, Mexico, and the Bahamas), have tap water that is unsafe to drink. This means that brushing your teeth with local tap water or even washing your hands before preparing lunch could lead to illness.

“Giardia parasite is pretty common with contaminated water,” says Cindy Chung, a doctor at Kaiser San Rafael Pediatrics in California. “When a kid comes into my office with sudden diarrhea, I ask, ‘Have you been camping? Did you go to the beach? Have you traveled...”

Find out if the tap water is safe to drink in your destination with the CDC’s Traveler’s Health tool. Many hotels in places with unsafe water have their own filtration systems or provide bottled water. But nasties may come from that iced water at a street market or berries at a roadside food stand. When in doubt, avoid ice, and drink bottled water.

Concerned about single-use plastics? Bring a heavy-duty filtered water bottle (such as Grayl) and fill it with boiled water (if the hotel has a kettle) or water treated with purification tablets (Globaline, Potable-Aqua).

Sometimes, food poisoning happens because travelers have never encountered common bacteria and viruses at their destination. “Locals build up some level of tolerance because their immune systems have been exposed multiple times,” says Bolaris.

That doesn’t mean you have to forgo street food in Southeast Asia or taco stands in Mexico City. Bolaris’ rule? If you can’t clean it or peel it, don’t eat it. Chung advises travelers to watch how vendors prep food. “Are they using utensils, gloves, or bare hands?” When in doubt, stick to piping hot dishes - grilled meats or fried fritters - and shun raw seafood and lukewarm stews.

Rachel Ng How to Deal with Food Poisoning while Traveling - and How to Avoid it Altogether

[rwrbmovie]

primevideo It’s just like being there

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

ah all that RWRB joy / RWRB important links in this LONG post♥

edit above of the fans recording THE moment from: https://twitter.com/galitzinerry/status/1789088497879638130 & https://twitter.com/theartim/status/1789082602751873308

BTW for everyone interested: Red, White & Royal Blue: Collector's Edition Henry PoV bonus chapter by Casey Mcquiston : https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/752528941905018880?source=share

+CMQ spotify (characters' playlists!!) https://open.spotify.com/user/p873j0jdmqn5hye7cakdnub7e/playlists

-12 mins cast & crew interview here:

-nearly 30mins Q & A from the screening in GREAT quality:

-ily matthew for saying this:

-my Alex:

-my FIRSTPRINCE:

-FIRSTPRINCE EDITS LINKS (many) :

-Arthur Fox & Henry Fox:

-important RWRB post (lots of links there)

-RWRB deleted scenes:

-RWRB-coming out :

-another IMPORTANT RWRB post:

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my RWRB (1) ig highlight: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18198132073262637/

my RWRB (2) ig highlight: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18037791823861597/

[punkeropercyjackson]

Pjo fans never go hard enough with their black headcanons-you can't be making JUST Percy afrolatino and calling it a day.Thalia's always felt like a black alt girl and she'd be a Sista Grrrl and albino Jason is in the same league as orange hair gold eyes Hazel as albinism dosen't turn you platinum blonde,it gives you no color at all and it's better design if he's a lightskin dirty blonde with brown eyes to match his Thalia's visual opposite motif.Nico's black soft sunshine boy swag deserves to be aknowledged and all Demeter kids should be black(/blasian Billie)because nobody does earthy better than black folks and afro-indian Grover is canon in a way due to both live actions and nigerian yoruba Rachel is the best explanation for her poofy hair and her last name being 'Dare'

And back to Percy,with full offense to old Pjoheads,you write him like a culture vulture and lightskin/mixed Percy's not real because he looks exactly like Poseidon so he HAS to be monoracial and the only 'Dark Percy' that's not racist is darkskin Percy with super strong features.He's not a sk*ter boy or a Hot Topic goer or a fan of poser punk bands like Fob/P!atd/etc,he's afropunk and a diy master and listens to rap,hip hop and nu metal and is deeply tied to his dominican heritage since Sally raised him in it as a second gen inmigrant and he also does petty crime on the regular,uses his Poseidon powers to help his activism be even better(such as enviormentalism),had a variety of black hairstyles throught all the books,was never crushing on Luke or the gods because no self-respecting black man would and him,Nico and Hazel are his platonic soulmates by choice in every universe and Sally adopted them so they're La Familia Jackson and run a family beach cafe and he's also a team parent to break the cycle of abuse.The closest thing to a yt person thing about Percy is he's an Mcr fan but even then that's just a millenial punk thing.And can't forget:He is audhd and reflects black autistic experiences specifically

[confessions-doa]

Confession #152: It'd be kinda neat if we got Alma as a playable character. Maybe she could play a bit like Rachel but with some demonic powers thrown in there.

[josh0555]

This is the 2010 Station ID Theme Song of GMA. This is the 2010 version of "Kapuso Anumang Kulay ng Buhay" which was also sung by Sharon Cuneta. But in 2010, It features Martin Nievera, Pops Fernandez, Angeline Quinto, Sarah Geronimo, Lea Salonga, Rachelle Ann Go, Yeng Constantino, Erik Santos, Aiza Seguerra, Jona Viray, Moira de la Torre and the Kapuso singers. However, The Theme song includes Let it Go originally by singer Whitney Houston which was sung in 1985, 10 years before Toy Story and Earth Song by Michael Jackson. Somehow, This looks like an extended version of the Kapuso Theme Song.

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Taken from The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars #3 (2018) by Michael Dante DiMartino, Irene Koh, Paul Reinwand and Vivian Ng. Edited by Dave Marshall and Rachel Roberts.

korrasami, you will always be famous. <3

[thequeereview]

TIFF 2023: LGBTQ+ highlights at 48th​ ​Toronto​ ​International​ ​Film​ ​Festival​

The 48th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opens on Thursday, September 7th with the international premiere of Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki’s animated epic The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka) and comes to a close on Sunday, September 17th with the world premiere of Thom Zimny’s Sylvester Stallone documentary Sly, exploring the close to five-decade career of one of…

[persephonethewanderer]

give us gothic literature recs!!!!

here you go anon!

FICTION:

wuthering heights, emily brontë

jane eyre, charlotte brontë

the bloody chamber, angela carter

mathilda, mary shelley

we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson

the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman

rebecca, daphne du maurier

carmilla, sheridan le fanu

dracula, bram stoker

frankenstein, mary shelley

the mill on the floss, george eliot

the orphan's tale, catherynne m. valente

the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

my cousin rachel, daphne du maurier

the double, fyodor dostoyevsky

the grey woman, elizabeth gaskell

beloved, toni morrison

the fall of the house of usher, edgar allan poe

wise blood, flannery o'connor

white is for witching, helen oyeyemi

wide sargasso sea, jean rhys

our wives under the sea, julia armfield

valerie and her week of wonders, vítězslav nezval

salome, oscar wilde

deathless, catherynne m. valente

piranesi, susanne clarke

picnic at hanging rock, joan lindsay

NON FICTION:

decadent daughters and monstrous mothers: angela carter and european gothic, rebecca munford

the contested castle: gothic novels and the subversion of domestic ideology, kate ferguson ellis

gothic incest: gender, sexuality and transgression, jenny diplacidi

our vampires, ourselves, nina auerbach

the madwoman in the attic, sandra gilbert and susan gubar

a new companion to the gothic, david punter

daughters of the house: modes of the gothic in victorian fiction, alison milbank

women and the gothic, avril horner and sue zlosnik

fairy tale & gothic horror, laura hubner

female gothic histories, diana wallace

women and domestic space in contemporary gothic narratives, andrew hock soon ng

gothic and gender, donna heiland

perils of the night: a feminist study of 19th century gothic, eugenia c. delamotte

the female gothic: new directions, diana wallace and andrew smith

[sunshinelivesforever]

PJO + HOO + TOA Characters Mood Boards:

Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood

Thalia Grace and Luke Castellan

Clarisse La Rue, Silena Beauregard and Charles Beckendorf

Nico di Angelo, Bianca di Angelo and Zoë Nightshade

Rachel Elizabeth Dare and Calypso

Travis Stoll, Connor Stoll, Katie Gardner and Miranda Gardiner

Castor and Pollux

Lee Fletcher and Michael Yew

Will Solace and Malcolm Pace

Ethan Nakamura and Chris Rodriguez

Heroes of Olympus

Jason Grace, Piper McLean and Leo Valdez

Gleeson Hedge, Butch Walker and Clovis

Drew Tanaka, Lacy and Mitchell

Nyssa Barrera, Jake Mason and Harley

Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang and Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano

Dakota, Michael Kahale and Leila

Lou Ellen Blackstone and Cecil Markowitz

Trials of Apollo

Lester Papadopoulos and Meg McCaffrey

Kayla Knowles and Austin Lake

Paolo Montes, Chiara Benvenuti and Damien White

Billie Ng and Valentina Diaz

Alice Miyazawa and Julia Feingold

Ellis Wakefield and Sherman Yang

Holly Victor and Laurel Victor

Hemithea, Josephine, Georgina and Lavinia Asimov

Currently Undergoing Editing...

[rwrbmovie]

rwrbonprime i’ve been healed

[kimhortons]

when in manila. | september 28-29

lagi talagang yung mga favorite food na wala dito sa bicol una kong kini-crave tuwing uuwi ako ng manila. at kahit kailan di talaga ako nagsasawa sa tacobell lalo ko pang namimiss kasi wala nga nun dito.

naalala ko tuloy yung bida bida naming manager haha. kakilala niya raw yung anak ng may ari ng tacobell haha. mahuhuli mo talaga sa bibig ng mga sinungaling minsan yung boka boka lang e. haha. wala namang anak si araneta haha.

anyway, syempre namiss ko rin mga mall dito, nag sasawa na kasi ako linggo linggo nalang ako nasa sm legazpi haha. miss ko na yung baluarte ko—trinoma haha.

i haven't tried llao llao kasi sobrang hype din dun ng mga tao dito sa albay. (kahapon na try ko) and all i can say is mas bet ko talaga 'tong frozen yogurt ng blk 513 na may activated charcoal. hindi ganun katamis for me ha. tsaka mas bet ko mga toppings dito.

umuwi talaga kami para manuod ng music festival. sobrang solid ng line up kaso hindi na namin natapos dahil sobrang late na at pagod na kami sa sobrang antok. sayang di ko tuloy napanuod urbandub huhu. 2:30am na nga kami umuwi nun, tapos nakita ko sa tiktok quarter to 4am na sila nakatugtog kawawa naman sila gab. 12am sila sa sched e, hindi nasunod. hays.

sabi ni Jay Contreras, "sa mga bata dito, sa mga hindi kami kilala, kami yung mga bandang pinapakinggan ng mga tito at tita niyo." hahaha. i felt so old. ang tatanda narin naman nila puro puti na nga din yung balbas ni Jay haha. ang saya at ang sarap sa pakiramdam na bumalik ako sa mga ala ala ng nakaraan hihi. watching these bands hits different talaga these days. hehe.

nag kita kami ni rachel the night nung pagkadating namin ng manila, after kumain nabudol niya pa ko bumili ng tinted moisturizer sa happy skin haha. first time ko 'tong brand na 'to actually, hindi ko naman kailangan haha. pero kasi buy 1 take 1 and namahalan ata siya kaya pinag hatian nalang namin haha. so far okay naman, feeling ko lang pag ginagawa ko 'tong base super oily ko haha.

yung dating shopwise sa araneta, fiesta carnival na pala ngayon. ang cool sa loob medyo retro yung vibes. sabe ko kay J sa sunod na pag uwi namin tatry namin mag laro dun. nag kita lang kasi kami nila rachel jan nung papunta kami ng music fest. hehe.

bago kami bumalik ng bicol the next day, as usual dumaan kami kila mitch. dun kami sa coffee shop ng ate niya tumambay. coffee na yung in-order namin, pero nag insist yung ate niya that i should try their matcha haha. dati kasi lagi namin jinajudge mga matcha ng mga local coffee shops sa lugar namin. ngayon, she really made sure na the best yung matcha ng cafe nila. and indeed it really is, kasi halos kalasa ng matcha latte sa starbucks haha.

although may unpleasant and upsetting na ganap—which i know misunderstanding lang naman, nung pag uwi ko, i think mas gugustuhin ko parin talaga umuwi from time to time. tingin ko keri ko na ng once a month kapag wala nakong bayarin. haha.

saya. hehe

[sapphicmcmean]

I see you like pjo rare pares so I’ve decided it’s time to give you all my favorites

Valentina x Lou Ellen

Bianca x Kayla

Bianca x Kayla x Piper (hear me out)

Pollux x Ethan

Clovis x Mitchell

Luke x Lee

Lee x Miranda

That is what I got!! Sorry I don’t see a lot of people who care about minor characters that much! If you have thoughts s h a r e

listen you have NOOO idea how much i adore the minor pjo chars ,,, they are literally justs oooo <3333333

omg valentina x lou ellen sounds so cute tbhh i can see it !!! i like hcing val and mitchell as full siblings so i think both of them could be close to lou before val and lou get together

I LOVE BIANCA SHIPS omg ive never even thought ab her and kayla (AND piper) ?? but thats sooo cuteee omg ,,, im not big on kayper just cause i havent thought ab it but but biakayper sounds adorable and lile theyd infuriate their brother(ly figures)

POLLUX AND ETHAN IS SOOO hii !! ur so right omg and ugh the incanon angst with any ethan ship and pollux losing both his crushlover and brother in the war ,,,

i adore clovis and mitchell seperately but the thought of them being together is cute !!i wonder how theyd become friends and more esp with clovis being asleep like more than half the time

THANKYOU FOR LUKE AND LEE !!! tbh i like luke x jake a lot but againnn the angst of them being in canon ,, esp with how early lee dies in the whole war (i think hes the first apollo kid to die??)

oooh lee and miranda is so cutee ,, i think they could get together in a no war au after both leaving camp and coming back just cause idk why but i dont have any ideas of them getting together during camp?

MYYYY biggest minor ships are the following

piper x lou ellen, piper x rachel, drew x annabeth, drew x katie, shel x rachel, bianca x billie ng (i love demeter girls sm), nico x mitchell (esp cupid kid mitchell au and postsolangelo), jason x frank (heavy on mortal academy aus), percy x leo, hazel x lavinia, drew x bianca (they were my first rarepair i love them smmm brew ftw), and so many more i cant remember off the top of my head rn <333

[elatedandexasperated]

So RWRB was a movie with some discourse...

In all honesty, the discourse has bugged me more than any issues with the film itself. I get a film adaptation not living up to personal expectations set by a book is... a response that people have, but the fact some people have been trying to convince people it's not worth watching bothers me.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen all of the love for it too and I know the antis for the film are definitely in the minority. No one can control how anyone relates or who is allowed to enjoy a piece of media, but the sheer hatred I've seen from some of the people on here for the film hurts a bit to see. The arguments seem to be no deeper than "x character was removed" , "there's these plot holes" and "it's too formulaic" that last one of which I feel was kind of the point: it's a formulaic romcom so that queer people can have a fairy tale romance story like the straight ones that get shoved down our throats from a young age by companies like Disney. McQuiston, an NB writer, has gone on record stating that a huge reason why they write is to feature queer identities and make stories that people like them would have liked to read and feel represented by when they were younger.

If this was a straight Hallmark romcom (which tbf, it basically is in terms of story structure, and I low-key love it because of that) it wouldn't have made so much as a blip on most people's radars. But because it features queer characters the threshold for scrutiny seems to have been dropped to the floor (insert "Get Low" joke here). I can get having criticisms of the film, I have a few myself, but the attempt to convince people the film is bad and to disregard it as a whole because of them ignores the positive qualities, what the film means to people in the queer community, what its success can lead to in terms of representation for underrepresented people in the community (Ace, bi, NB, trans, etc.), and an understanding of intricacies that go into adaptation.

At the end of the day, this film was competently made (and in my opinion, well made) by a gay director with an inclusive team and a deep care for both the source material and an understanding of what the film would mean for millions of viewers. It featured experiences and themes that are common to many people in the community with several very poignant messages that actually have huge metatextual implications with the film (The "forced conformity of the closet" quote sticks out in particular to me: the number of op-eds speculating Nick and Taylor's sexualities and how they've been mum about them makes me think a lot of people missed that one; also looking at you, people that forced Kit Connor out of the closet 😒)

The film is a celebration of love featuring characters that people like me and others in the community can relate to. Is it formulaic? Yes. Did they remove some characters to try and create a tighter narrative focused on the main romantic pair? Yes. Is it overly cheesy and so unrealistically sweet that it will give me diabetes? Delightfully so.

So ending on a positive note, I just want to run down some things I've loved about it:

- An mlm story with an actual happy ending that features adult main leads! (Credit to youth stories, they're important, but as an adult it's hard to relate to teenage characters sometimes)

- The charisma both TZP and NG just radiate throughout the movie

- Sarah Shahi eating the absolute SHIT out of every scene she's in (Touch her and die)

- Same for Rachel Hilson

- Uma Thurman and Stephen Fry (enough said)

- The acting overall was fantastic

- The care and work put into intimate scenes and inclusion of an intimacy coordinator

- On a personal level, I loved seeing parallels between Alex and Henry's relationship and the relationship I have with my husband. For the first time in my 30 years I actually see a little of myself in an uplifting and happy piece of media and not portrayed as a dramatic tragedy, villain, or inconsequential background character.

Tl;Dr if you didn't like the movie, that's your opinion. I'm not here to try and convince you otherwise. But please stop trying to convince people it shouldn't be watched. Regardless of your opinion, this film means a lot to a lot of people, including the author of the original book! Just let us enjoy this imperfect, but tasty cheese with our w(h)ine ❤️

[artemicia]

Hindi ako palabasa ng mga ganitong libro kasi feeling ko ang aggressive lagi ng atake eh hindi talaga ako ganon in real life.

Pero excited ako simulan ‘to kasi matagal ko nang finofollow si Rachel P. saka feeling ko siya yung gusto kong maging mentor kasi nanay din siya. Isa sa mga pundasyon niya rin yung magiging buhay ng mga anak niya kung bakit siya nagtayo ng business.

Ang ganda rin agad ng umpisa ng libro tapos parang naririnig ko pa yung boses niya habang nagbabasa. Hahaha!

[rebeccadumaurier]

2023 Books in Review

a tiered ranking of all the books i read in 2023! originally i was going to write up my commentary on each one but then i was like hahaha.....no, so below the cut is just a list of the titles/authors in each tier instead.

changed my brain chemistry

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

The Borrowed, Chan Ho-kei (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier

Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (trans. Ken Liu)

The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich)

Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng

Severance, Ling Ma

He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan

Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Network Effect, Martha Wells

top-tier stuff

Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)

Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt

The Door, Magda Szabo (trans. Len Rix)

The Lover, Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu

Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt

Bliss Montage, Ling Ma

How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

good, well-written

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu

Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Yellowface, R. F. Kuang

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

Assassin of Reality, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Witch King, Martha Wells

Tokyo Ueno Station, Miri Yu (trans. Morgan Giles)

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi

Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

The Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse (Murderbot #1-4, #6-7), Martha Wells

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)

Gods of Want, K-Ming Chang

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes)

The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency, Chen Chen

The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise, Lauren James

Upstream, Mary Oliver

The Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat

Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison

alphabet, Inger Christensen (trans. Susanna Nied)

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

flawed, but enjoyable

The Wicker King, K. Ancrum

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Flux, Jinwoo Chong

Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood

The Murder of Mr. Wickham, Claudia Gray

Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Likeness, Tana French

The Cabinet, Un-su Kim (trans. Sean Lin Halbert)

The Kingdom of Surfaces, Sally Wen Mao

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi

good, well-written, but not my cup of tea

The Good House, Tananarive Due

The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman)

Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (trans. Olena Bormashenko)

The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan

At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (trans. Anna Moschovakis)

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet de Onís)

Against Silence, Frank Bidart

flawed, less enjoyable

Tenth of December, George Saunders

Counterweight, Djuna (trans. Anton Hur)

Authority, Jeff VanderMeer

Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente

Babel, R. F. Kuang

The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid

not ranking

These are nonfiction and they aren’t literature-related, so it just felt weird trying to rank them.

Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin

On Web Typography, Jason Santa Maria

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (trans. Cathy Hirano)