Jiayang Fan 樊嘉扬 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jiayang Fan 樊嘉扬

Hearing Toni Morrison —whose voice is rhythmic honey and whose sentences, every single one, an aching reckoning with the soul— read Beloved is kind of a transcendental experience https://t.co/qrsIouqHNl

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Rhys explores somes of my favorite themes in her novels: alienation, displacement, social marginality. I also love how bold she is, and psychologically penetrating. I’ve never met a protagonist in her stories I didn’t believe or love and loathe, in very complicated ways.

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An elderly man & college student sitting next to me at coffeeshop discovered to their great delight they are reading the exact same book & for past 20 min, cant stop raving about how great a read it is. The book: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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Few books read me as deep to the bone as this one. Have never taught a zoom class but Nabokov actually makes me look forward to zoom?!

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Joy joy joy

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Watching Brooklyn,the movie based on Colm Toibin novel of🇮🇪immigrant journey to 🇺🇸&5 min into film,theres saorise ronan waving from the ship to her mom on dock &Im not crying but theres water massively leaking from my eyes.Its the worst kind of crying,when u dont mean to but u do