#Amy Tan

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Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

#amy tan #quotes #literature

[motifcollector]

I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to understand what has already happened.

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

#literature #currently reading #amy tan #memory

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Group A Round 1

[image ID: the first image is of the book cover of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. the stylized art on it is colorful, with flowers, yellow and red Chinese dragons, clouds, and rainbow colored stripes. the second image is of Seijyu, a young blond boy, with purple eyes, a blue and white outfit, and a yellow scarf with a clip holding it together. he has a thin, sheathed sword. end ID]

Rose Hsu Jordan

The book as a whole is about generational trauma among Chinese immigrants. Rose specifically struggles with indecisiveness and blames herself for her brother's death. this causes her husband to take advantage of her, but her mom helps her stand up for herself. I love her because she has struggled so much but in the end is able to take back her life

Seijyu

A doll given life by his owner and sent to protect said owners best friend. He has no memories and the only purpose in life he was given was doing that job, his story is about self discovery and learning what it means to be human and to love. (he also has a transgender boyfriend). (when you google him the first result is a wiki page all written by me💛)

#obscurecharactershowdown #group a round 1 #obscure poll #rose hsu jordan #the joy luck club #amy tan #seijyu #mashin eiyuuden wataru #mashin hero wataru

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You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her.

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

#amy tan #the joy luck club #quote #words #books

[nobeerreviews]

All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.

-- Amy Tan

(Lucerne, Switzerland)

#mystery #life #chapel bridge #amy tan #travel photography #night photography #lucerne #switzerland #quote #memories

[reverie-quotes]

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

— Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

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27-05-2023: Mini Break

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[fiction-quotes]

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

  —  The Bonesetter's Daughter (Amy Tan)

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[litandlifequotes]

I’m not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

#amy tan #the hundred secret senses #book #book quote #quote #words #reading

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The Joy Luck Club

Postcard from USA When The Joy Luck Club premiered in theaters in 1993, it gave voice to a group of women that had not yet been depicted in American cinema.Based on the bestselling 1989 novel by Amy Tan and directed by Wayne Wang, the movie tells the stories of four American-born Chinese women and their complex, and often fraught, relationships with their immigrant mothers. The film is…

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#Amy tan #feminism #joy luck club #postcard #postcrossing #USA #Wednesday Women #women

[motifcollector]

Just got out of book club where we were discussing The Joy Luck Club (1989 novel about Chinese American immigrant women and their 30-something year old daughters, it was one of the first works of Asian American lit to get mainstream attention so it's pretty iconic.) We were talking about how some of the details of daughters' stories feel dated to the 80s but simultaneously the underlying dynamic is so unchanged—ex. one woman sees her husband as this great progressive feminist guy who believes in equality but of course the supposed equality of their marriage is quite illusory. Many such cases today! I don't like being pessimistic but for a moment I was just sitting there in sheer despair contemplating that there is no hope for women and we are all products of a deeply misogynistic society. It's so fucking over lmao

#peyton.txt #amy tan #currently reading

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— The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)

#the joy luck club #amy tan #books #book quotes #literature #american literature #classic literature #asian literature

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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

#amy tan #the joy luck club #quote #words #books #literature

[formerlibrarian]

Amy Tan and Joyce Carol Oates

#amy tan #joyce carol oates

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

My 2023 TBR (8/?) 

Assorted women’s lit. I love Erica Jong. I have read a few of her poetry collections and Sappho’s Leap. I finally got a copy of Fear of Flying. I’m determined to read it before I turn 30. Her protagonist is 29 and I just love it when I can coordinate with the characters’ ages. I read Persuasion for the first time when I was 28, the same age as Austen’s heroine Anne Eliot. And I think that made the story all the more powerful for me. Persuasion is now my favorite Austen novel because of that experience. 

I have been wanting to read both Anne Rice and Amy Tan for a long time as well. The Girl who Reads on the Metro was featured in one of Jack Edwards’ videos. Women in Their Beds (a short story collection) was up for a goodreads award I think within the last couple years- or it was nominated at least. I think that’s where I got it from. And I’ve heard good things about Come As You Are and it’s appeared on many suggestion lists for books on relationships, dating, and sex. 

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