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  • Top Ten Non-Bookish Hobbies

    Here’s a little levity for this angsty day: my top ten hobbies outside of reading! YouTube – I’m one of those hypocrites who is proud for not owning TV, while watching YouTube all day. 😆 It’s not all mindless… I listen to music and podcasts when I work, and sometimes political commentary in the evening,… Continue reading

  • October Reviews – Lightning Round

    Here’s a quick look at some books I’ve read in the last week or two. Continue reading

  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

    Willis Wu is a first-generation Chinese American whose dream is to become a movie star. Not just any movie star, but the role of Kung Fu Guy—the pinnacle of Asian acting, according to childhood memories. It turns out those memories weren’t so off-base, at least in Hollywood, and Kung Fu Guy is hard to get… Continue reading

  • October Catch-Up

    It’s October already, one of my favorite months! And yet I feel its arrival with a mild dread…. To get the elephant out of the room: my blogging has been really sporadic this year, which I feel bad about. A combination of amping up my YouTube channel + shutdown + quarter-life crisis really threw me… Continue reading

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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.

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