More Books!

I have been on a reading tear since graduating...and I feel like this blog is turning into an online book review. So here's what I've read since last reporting in:

American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang: A very well done graphic novel weaving three different storylines circulating around a second generation Chinese boy named Jin and his frustration and shame in claiming his racial and ethnic identity.

Black Skins, White Masks, Franz Fanon: I've been meaning to read this classic work of Literary Criticism, Postcolonial/Cultural/Psychological Theory since my last year at Cal. It was incredible and will be on my general exam booklist. Some of it is pretty outdated, but a lot of it isn't.

Parrotfish, Ellen Wittlinger: The one and only YA book with a Transman as the main character. You can tell the author has read Kate Bornstein put has no personal experience with being trans. You can also tell she's been out of high school for a long time...the characters don't really act like teenagers and the slow developing plot gets resolved extremely quickly and rather unrealistically. Could someone else please write a YA transman novel of the same quality as Julie Ann Peter's Luna?


My Dillon manuscript has reached 115 pages...and we're missing about three paragraphs so it looks like I'll be spending a good chunk of next Summer in England if I can get grants.

Also, today I was informed two hours ahead of time that my apt. was going to be shown. Since the landlord told me he wouldn't be showing the unit until early July I hurriedly cleaned up "my" place. Luckily, it was already pretty clean from my older bro crashing here for graduation...but still it reminded me of how impermanent my state is here. And I left before the agent showed up with the prospective tenant. Thinking about leaving is too depressing. Tonight T and El had a family dinner and I realized it's probably one of the last.