Wang Yifei/王奕斐

#bluesky #crane https://www.instagram.com/p/CqZ1dBUB5yS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Winner of last year’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History. #AlanTaylor is a prolific writer on American history. This book #AmericanRepbublics also touched on other countries in the vicinity. A wonderful book on early US history and shattered many myths which now are considered given though the fact says otherwise. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqXURRmBNXj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bluesky #cherryblossom #sakura (at 魯迅公園) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqQaUmKLMKh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#GraemeMacraeBurnet #CaseStudy is a disappointment, period. It has very similar structure with Hernan Diaz’s Trust. I don’t understand why Booker longlisted two books at the same time. It also reminds me of Piranesi, a mixture of fictional biography and narrative fiction. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqK3j77uDXr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bluesky https://www.instagram.com/p/CqFPcVaheVb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#TorreyPeters #DetransitionBaby is too messed up. No likable characters don’t help either. The author packaged too many things together and I just feel that there is too much preaching instead of letting the story excel. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqEf9xaO1iC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bluesky (at Xintiandi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqCmaYFOpoZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Last year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for history. #AdaFerrer wrote an honest history on Cuba. It’s also a history on US involvement in Cuba. Lightweight compared to Hugh Thomas’s opus Cub published almost half century ago, which I haven’t read yet. This could very well be the book for me. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_-9fTuigP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bluesky https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp3-SQKhSo-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#HernanDiaz #Trust was Booker longlisted and one of the best books of 2022 by NYT. It’s definitely worth the read. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpjplu4BdOt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#magnolia #spring #bluesky (at Donghu Hotel, shanghai) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpeNVqdBtyW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#JavierMarías died last year. #TomásNevinson is his last novel, a sequel to his #BertaIsla. I never developed a penchant for his work, but still he was considered one of the best contemporary Spanish writer. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpWYa_QhyWu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bluesky #building https://www.instagram.com/p/CpUU1AWhi5Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The last book I read by #AnnieErnaux. #AMansPlace is about her father and it is fine, even touching at some point, but #NobelPrize material? I’m not sure. I’ll stop right here. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMxJlWBT68/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bluesky #shangrila https://www.instagram.com/p/CpCuSJrLQ1s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I would never have read #SuperInfinite by #KatherineRundell had it not won the prestigious #BaillieGiffordPrize. Recently years many biographies won the prize. Some are quite unique in its form. This book is no exception. It’s a combination of biography and literary criticism. It reads more like a long essay. Still I won’t read any of #JohnDonne poems. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoemdtRO_vl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bluesky https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYsyWUhgSi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=