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Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You
by Candice Chung
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
I don’t think anything I say about this audiobook will be able to do it justice so let me just start off by saying that is hypnotically lyrical - the feeling of slowly submerging yourself in water and letting the waves wash over you. this novel reads not as a memoir but almost as literary fiction - the way Chung articulate her feelings, the way she talks about writers and artists and her own experiences, the way she talks about the wonder that is food and eating - it’s all a treat to read or (in my case listen to).
it took me a bit of time to read this book not because I didn’t enjoy it but because my experience of reading it was like having a big bowl of your favourite food in front of you. As much as you want to dig right in and devour it in one sitting you also understand that what is what is so much more gratifying is savouring it so that you can taste the flavour, so that you can taste the texture, so that you can take it all in and not just consume it but sit with it and…I think that that is the best way this novel is read or listened to. 10 out of 10, I absolutely recommend it to everyone, especially immigrants, people of colour, women - but honestly if you’re a human just read this book.
it took me a bit of time to read this book not because I didn’t enjoy it but because my experience of reading it was like having a big bowl of your favourite food in front of you. As much as you want to dig right in and devour it in one sitting you also understand that what is what is so much more gratifying is savouring it so that you can taste the flavour, so that you can taste the texture, so that you can take it all in and not just consume it but sit with it and…I think that that is the best way this novel is read or listened to. 10 out of 10, I absolutely recommend it to everyone, especially immigrants, people of colour, women - but honestly if you’re a human just read this book.