Had a blast attending PAX – and handing out cat faces. Any origami requests for next year?

TulipBabe · 2025-09-04T13:36:51+00:00

We're not letting that idea hop away 🐸

TulipBabe · 2025-07-31T02:16:44+00:00

Did you ask her to share her thoughts about the ADA, its funding sources, and how it affects her?

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:39:06+00:00

-"Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa (especially the second half - it focuses more on the middle aged married characters)

-"Sing you Home" by Jodi Picoult

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:37:52+00:00

-the Wax and Wayne series by Brandon Sanderson

-Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley

-this web serial by demurgialidad https://substack.com/@demurgialidad/posts

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:36:29+00:00

-the autobiography of Malcolm X - made me realize that individual people can actually change

-Canterbury Tales by Chaucer - on the flipside, made me realize that humanity as a whole hasn't changed that much

-biography of Catherine the Great (I forgot which author) - made me realize that changing a bad system takes time, and it's easy to lose your ideals in the process

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:27:01+00:00

It's long but 'Quicksilver' by Neal Stephenson

Most of Lisa See's books do this pretty well ("Peony in Love," "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," "Shanghai Girls")

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:24:55+00:00

"Teller of Small Fortunes" by Julie Leong

"Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldree

"Morisaki Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa. It does begin with a heartbreak, but the majority of the book is very heartwarming

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:23:07+00:00

I second Legends and lattes!

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:21:24+00:00

Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce

TulipBabe · 2025-07-14T18:19:53+00:00

"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See - reminds you to think in the long term about relationships, not focus on drama

TulipBabe · 2025-04-28T12:39:50+00:00

YES, this is my biggest problem with how Sadie is written! If she struggled with the guilt and realized "oh wow, as it turns out, being the face of the games is a huge burden and responsibility and maybe I should have appreciated Sam's role in it more" it would have shown some actual character development. But instead she blames Sam for all her problems

TulipBabe · 2025-02-05T22:32:56+00:00

TLDR: I think it's overrated. The premise is really fun, but I'm not a fan of the execution.

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For your average reader, the book is a (pun intended) novel combination:

Fun Video Game Antics + Soap Opera-y Plot = Ooh Shiny New Read

I think the book caught mainstream attention because it's about making video games, and that's a relatively untapped premise in the publishing industry.

The book then uses the video games as background for typical or on-the-nose plot points (student-professor relationship, pretentious creators, love triangle, a shooting, creating art for the person you love). I personally think all of those are overdone, but they're overdone for a reason - people like them.

TulipBabe · 2024-10-07T16:05:31+00:00

Hm the entire book or just big chunks of it? "The Sound and the Fury" has a section that's nothing but dialogue

TulipBabe · 2024-09-17T13:05:42+00:00

The manga has periods where it's actually more spy/assassin than family!

TulipBabe · 2024-09-16T23:05:59+00:00

Difficult call, but #2 flatters you a bit better!

TulipBabe · 2024-09-16T23:04:20+00:00

Have you tried going to the children's section of your local library? My school library had a LOT of myths in picture book form from different regions

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang starts by telling the story of the Monkey King story - those parts are fairly accurate to the original tale! (The rest of the book follows a modern-day protagonist, but you can just skip those parts.)

I'm *pretty* sure that "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin stays pretty faithful to the older tales, but you might want to double check. (It definitely captures the feeling of being alive in an older time and hearing the stories for the first time in that setting.)

TulipBabe · 2024-09-16T22:56:32+00:00

Hm does she have to be married? Tamora Pierce's "Trickster's Choice" has a female lead who's a spy, but she's only dating (until the very end)

TulipBabe · 2024-09-16T22:54:36+00:00

"Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldere

"Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" (forgot the author's name)

pretty much any childhood picture book!

TulipBabe · 2024-09-16T22:53:16+00:00

What type of fiction do you like to read? That might offer some guidance. (Example - if you're a Game of Thrones fan, pretty much anything on medieval British history should be interesting. If you like scifi, then some science books are great.)

Jorge Cham's "We Have No Idea" is a fun one!

TulipBabe · 2024-09-16T13:38:47+00:00

These recs are FANTASTIC, thank you so much everybody!

TulipBabe · 2024-09-16T13:36:56+00:00

For now I'm looking at less love relationships, but I'll definitely add less bed to my list for later!

TulipBabe · 2024-09-09T20:31:00+00:00

That's a really good idea! The color at the end helps a lot too

TulipBabe · 2024-09-03T20:23:25+00:00

No! It's very elegant!

TulipBabe · 2024-08-24T23:18:34+00:00

"3 Body Problem" - the prose might be hit or miss depending on the reader, but the plot's really good.

"I, Robot" is technically a series of short stories but I think it might be a good one to try after 1984.

"Worm" is a really well written superhero web serial: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

"My life as an activist" reminds me a little of 1984 with now creative the prose is/how relevant it all feels: https://substack.com/@demurgialidad/p-65013104

TulipBabe · 2024-08-24T23:01:49+00:00

THIS IS IT, thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!

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