I haven't posted in a long time, but I finished my June book for the #TranslatedLitChallenge yesterday.

The theme for June is to read a book from a place you want to visit. Now, I was in Taiwan two months ago, but I already want to go back, so what better than to read the Taiwanese book I actually bought in Taiwan!

Anyway, this book was incredible. Absolutely horrifying, but incredible and the translation choices made it all the better!

#TranslatedLiterature #TaiwaneseLiterature

Yesterday was spent exploring one of the largest bookstores in Taipei (as far as I know). I also went to Taipei 101, but well, books seem more important.

I started a tradition last year of buying books from the countries I travel to (that are from or related to the country somehow) and this is my #BookHaul for this particular trip.

I also bought two Korean books not pictured though. Oops.

#TaiwaneseLiterature #TranslatedLiterature #BooksInTranslation

Hmmm. Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre is probably *not* the perfect book to welcome the Year of the Rabbit with now is it? (iykyk)

#QiuMiaojin #LesbianLiterature #ChineseLiterature #TaiwaneseLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation #readwomen #WomenInTranslation

We're reading Pai Hsien-yung's The Eternal Snow Beauty and A Sea of Bloodred Azaleas for class this week, and I'm struck as I always am by the way he describes people and places. A student mentioned that it felt like Hotel California. Nice to know the youth are keeping up with ancient music.

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