Classics Considered

by Marian H

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • The Last Chapter – A Poem for Frodo

    One of the things I owe to Tolkien is inspiring in me a love of poetry. Before I read The Lord of the Rings, I had little interest in reading poetry, let alone writing it. It was the poems of Middle Earth that changed my mind…the way he used poems and songs to emphasize the… Continue reading

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  • Tolkien Blog Party 2020 – Tag!

    It’s that time of year again—the annual Tolkien Blog Party hosted by Rachel at The Edge of the Precipice blog! I checked and the last time I participated was in 2017. 😮 I’m super excited to join in again this year with some Tolkien-themed posts, starting with this questionaire: 1. What Tolkien character do you… 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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