Bara
loved weitzman’s retelling of game 7 against the raptors, not just because i’m a raptors fan, but it just felt like there was energy. i could feels the suspense of the 4th quarter. also great to read about the role players that came out of the process-era sixers like RoCo, saric, and tj mcconnell!
i read this book for the first class i ever had in college. no being 5 years removed from that and having lived in the US for the better part of the last 5 years, having read it again made this book so much more powerful, especially considering the current political climate. Coates knocked it out of the fucking park. truly incredible.
i cried and i laughed and i got angry. this is exactly the book that i needed at this point in my life. god, what i would give to go on a road trip and make art about it. that's the fucking life.
did i understand all of it? definitely not. but i enjoyed reading it so much. the way it’s written is so fun and beautiful and it makes me jealous that i can’t even begin to write like that.
this book makes me feel so seen. as a foreigner (indonesian, very close to malaysai!) currently in the US, Chin highlights many of the same issues and anxieties that i’ve felt in my time here. the question of belonging, both here and back home, is one that i think about everyday. it was both so pleasant but also kind of mortifying to read. honestly, this might be my new favorite book.
miscommunication tropes/slowburn can sometime frustrate the fuck out of me but i wasn’t that frustrated reading this. i actually liked the characters and felt like i understood why they were miscommunicating
wildfires + covid was a crazy time, wasn’t expecting to see it depicted in a book this soon but it was kind of awesome in like a wow that WAS really scary moment