#Weike Wang

[reverie-quotes]

You must always stay calm. But you must also be willing to break all the person's ribs in order to keep her alive.

— Weike Wang, Joan is Okay

[libraryleopard]

Adult literary fiction

An unnamed woman working towards a PhD in chemistry struggles with parental expectations and long hours in the lab, reaching a breaking point when her boyfriend proposes and she realizes the uncertainty of her future

Chinese American main character

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Chemistry | Author: Weike Wang | Publisher: Knopf (2017)

[melodious-tear]

"I remember the 'kind deeds' you two had done for me in the past. In the future, I will take good care of you."

Heroes week 2023: promise + madness

[rootsmachine]

a league of their own (2022) // “joan is okay”, weike wang

[revelations-mp3]

Save me weike wang

[wavesmp3]

masterlist - insp list!

a masterlist of sorts, sorted by whatever might've inspired it if something did inspire it heavily eurydice + the sea is yours to take + 8000 layers of inyun + are you happy? + ode to you → have all been posted for both the boyz and for seventeen

MOVIES/MUSICALS/SHOWS → one day → hadestown → before sunrise → minari → eternal sunshine of the spotless mind → past lives → daisy jones and the six → psych

BOOKS → harrow the ninth by tamysn muir → fire by kristen cashore ➤ the general vibe of the the sea is yours to take especially the love story is very much inspired by fire and brigan's romance in the book → the children of blood and bone by tomi adeyemi ➤the magic system in oasis is very much inspired by the magic in this book → chemistry by weike wang ➤ was very much trying to emulate chemistry's style in today i want to burst into flames → nothing to see here by kevin wilson ➤ the whole idea of bursting into flames in today i want to burst into flames was basically taken from this novel → i'll give you the sun by jandy nelson ➤ was again very much trying to emulate jandy nelson's beautiful writing in lie to me and again in this unfinished fic let’s make a trade: the sun for the stars → mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia → the hundred thousand kingdoms by n.k. jeminson

SONGS → ok well i guess that’s it then by cimorelli → boredom has a new best friend by tyler the creator → vertigo by khalid → back to you by selena gomez → mr. hollywood by joji → tujh mein rab dikhta hai from rab ne bana di jodi → ribs by lorde → dance to this by ariana grande and troye sivan → i don't care by ed sheeran → it runs deep by trisha mohring → yeh kya hua sung by shreya ghoshal → dynasty by rina sawayama → limbo unreleased song by billie eilish → here goes nothing by dpr live → rain song from minari → how can i pretend? by waisa project → used to be young by miley cryus → sliver of time by sarah kinsley → not a lot, just forever by adrianne lenker → oh no darling! by sarah kinsley → the giver by sarah kinsley

THE SEA! → the sea is yours to take (wjh) + the sea is yours to take(ljh) → a story about us → summers & shots → only us and the ocean → taking chances (special mentions: geronimo, scene in ode to you, scene in love you until the golden hours, scene in clouds, before the bucket falls, dreamscapes)

[reverie-quotes]

Better to distill our words down to a single point, I thought, hence why I've always admired bullet-pointed handouts and needles.

— Weike Wang, Joan is Okay

[charliejaneanders]

I feel like I'm in pretty good company here

(This is the cover and description of Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood, featuring my name alongside Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capó Crucet, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, Caroline Randall Williams, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and Meg Wolitzer)

[emily-prentits]

tag nine people u would like to know better: tagged by @larvamotif !!

last song: rock bottom - hailee steinfeld

currently watching: grey’s anatomy and private practice! at the same time lol bc grey’s is so fucking long but i miss addie <3

currently reading: joan is okay by weike wang!! can’t seem to get away from the fictional doctors recently and i find that really funny LOL

current obsession: meddison... 🫠

tagging: @jackie-shitposts @itsdappleagain @tiredguyswag @lisascumslut78 and whoever else wants to!! i don’t remember which other mutuals likes tag games

[alifeincoffeespoons]

a random long-ish list of media and characters that have given me persistent brainworms

• the raven cycle (thank u dalia i love u) — adam parrish my beloved • sirius black and remus lupin. and by obvious extension wolfstar • conversations with friends by sally rooney • dabihawks. and also hawks just like. by himself. this is despite me yelling at the screen every time i even attempt to watch MHA anymore • stranger things despite me like. not actually watching the show. and just consuming fanfiction • me and my dog by boygenius • fleabag • the idiot by elif batuman • this specific essay by c pam zhang • everything weike wang has ever written but especially chemistry • everything i never told you by celeste ng • crying in h mart by michelle zauner • “wife” by ada limón • this essay by leslie jamison • this essay by rayne fisher-quann • semi-embarrassingly, the social network • check please! (nurseydex my beloved) • little women (2019) — amy march is So Real • the harley quinn series • all of chen chen’s poetry ever but especially this one. everyone should read when i grow up i want to be a list of endless possibilities and your emergency contact has experienced an emergency • good omens • all of preacher’s daughter by ethel cain anyway if u have any suggestions for media that u think i would like based on this.......very random list pls send them to me !!

[embossross]

2022 in Books: Fiction Edition

literary fiction published 2015-2022 (based on publish of english translation!)

breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

heads of the colored people by nafissa thompson-spires (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - a perfect short story collection. so witty!

the hole by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

larose by louise erdrich (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

i will die in a foreign land by kalani pickhart (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the house of broken angels by luis alberto urrea (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

less by andrew sea greer (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

there there by tommy orange (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

at night all blood is black by david diop (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

beautiful world, where are you by sally rooney (⭐⭐⭐)

weasels in the attic by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)

joan is okay by weike wang (⭐⭐⭐)

a tiny upward shove by melissa chadburn (⭐⭐⭐) - one of the most upsetting books i've ever read :( lots of merit but good lord is it rough

open water by caleb azumah nelson (⭐⭐⭐)

earthlings by sayaka murata (⭐⭐⭐) - competing with a tiny upward shove for most disgusting difficult book to read. this one i almost couldn't complete

kim jiyoung, born 1982 by nam-joo cho (⭐⭐) - this is so overrated. it's not a novel. it's an essay pretending to be a novel.

very nice by marcy dermansky (⭐⭐)

true love by sarah gerard (⭐⭐) - ever wanted to shake some sense into a character before?

spark by naoki matayoshi (⭐⭐)

people from my neighborhood by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐)

the doll by ismail kadare (⭐)

literary fiction published 1971-2014

sexing the cherry by jeanette winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i have never highlighted more lines in a book. prose got me in a chokehold.

love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

norwegian wood by haruki murakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't wanna like murakami as much as i do but damn he doesn't miss

midnight's children by salman rushdie (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

less than zero by bret easton ellis (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

woman at point zero by nawal el saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - read this if you want to get homicidally angry :)

lion cross point by masatsugu ono (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

post office by charles bukowski (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

dept. of speculation by jenny offill (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if i'd ever had to fight for a relationship this would have been a 5 star.

the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enriquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - cheat code: read this aloud. prose drips off the tongue.

the ten loves of mr. nishino by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

kitchen by banana yoshimoto (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the divorce by cesar aira (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - 4 stars on the merit of the first part. the rest is probably a 3 star

if you kept a record of sins by andrea bajani (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

love by hanne orstavik (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

too loud a solitude by bohumil hrabal (⭐⭐⭐)

the factory by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)

a feather on the breath of god by sigrid nunez (⭐⭐⭐) - good for what it is but a bit lightweight? maybe too critical because i loved 'the friend' by the same author

the white tiger by aravind adiga (⭐⭐⭐)

sleepless nights by elizabeth hardwick (⭐⭐⭐)

the story of my teeth by valeria luiselli (⭐⭐) - cool concept. unsure about the execution.

interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri (⭐⭐)

battles in the desert by jose emilio pacheco (⭐⭐) - should have been a novel not a novella. it ends right as it starts to gain steam

literary fiction published start of time-1970

the passion according to g.h. by clarice lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - favorite book of the year!!!! an existential crisis on paper!!!!

japanese tales of mystery & imagination by edogawa rampo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - the 1st short story in this is insane! insane! the chair! i'm screaming!

miramar by naguib mahfouz (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the blind owl by sadegh hedayat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - pinnacle of slow descent into madness fiction...or it's not that slow i guess

pedro paramo by juan rulfo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the turn of the screw by henry james (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - would have been 4 stars, but i read an edition with lit crit essays in the back and it was so fun to read the "but are the ghosts real?" discourses that i had to give it that extra star

i am a cat by natsume soseki (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if soseki ever described my physical appearance in writing i'd promptly perish. he eviscerates people. dear god.

giovanni's room by james baldwin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the old man and the sea (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the interpreters by wole soyinka (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't even know what i like about this book. bad characters, no plot, confusing prose. and yet...it's got a rhythm. it possessed me.

pocho by jose antonio villareal (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the living is easy by dorothy west (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - one of my fave protags of all time!

yesterday by juan emar (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

naomi by jun'ichiro tanizaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

passing by nella larsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

bartleby, the scrivener: a story of wall street by herman melville (⭐⭐⭐) - tell you why i didn't give this more stars? i'd prefer not to.

season of migration to the north by tayeb salih (⭐⭐⭐)

everything and nothing by jorge luis borges (⭐⭐⭐) - i read this with a migraine. i was not in the right mindset. i'll give ficciones more attention someday.

portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce (⭐⭐) - listen i'm not proud of this rating either. joyce isn't 2 stars. i'm just a 2 star reader.

genre fiction from all time

the fifth season by n.k. jemisin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - STUNNING

the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i usually don't care for fantasy and hated the other v.e. schwab i read, so this was a nice surprise. it lost me at points but ultimately regained me. deals with the devil are my kryptonite.

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas (⭐⭐⭐) - i get the hype. hard to criticize because its faults are what make it so good to others. i liked a lot of it.

how to stop time by matt haig (⭐⭐⭐)

the goddess chronicle by natsuo kirino (⭐⭐⭐)

never have i ever by isabel yap (⭐⭐⭐)

almond by sohn won-pyung (⭐⭐⭐)

once more upon a time by roshani chokshi (⭐⭐⭐)

sea of ruin by pam godwin (⭐⭐) - i thought this was a pirate romance. it is smut. pure smut. i was blushing on audio book. not a fan.

city of refuge by kenzo kitakata (⭐⭐)

nothing but blackened teeth by cassandra khaw (⭐⭐) - bizarre ending. like it could have been ok but it missed the obvious homerun for no reason.

velvet was the night by silvia garcia-moreno (⭐⭐)

colorful by eto mori (⭐⭐)

plays

millennium approaches by tony kushner (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

a doll's house by henrik ibsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the inspector general by nikolai gogol (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

waiting for godot by samuel beckett (⭐⭐) - listen i'm just a dumb dumb. i know it's good. i just didn't like it.

[kiss2012]

i’ve read this so many times and it makes me want to cry every time