Just Checkin

As of now, still recovering from the virus (what am I, a computer?), listening to some new music and about to watch Basquash ep 20. I think it's everything I have wanted and waited for, but I could be wrong. Hopefully I'm not. But importantly, in my last journal, I finished feeling like I missed something and I indeed missed something valuable.

I wanted to talk about Thirteen Orphans (and maybe my general distaste of this horrible culture in novels). Thirteen Orphans... When I first read those starting pages with Albert Yu, the mahjong bit had me rolling my eyes. And so I shut, but tried to read it again yesterday. I didn't like how Brenda's dad was set up or that all these supposedly important people with Chinese ties/ancestry looked ethnic only in their old age and were half Chinese at best. It felt so white. Like 'maybe you grow into ethnicity?'(or however it was put). Uh, no. I definitely didn't grow into looking black. Anyway, I read a little further really skipping past any detailed mahjong talk and felt myself glare or be weirded out by the 'Mystic Orient' refs. After the third or second one, I just quit reading. And now the dilemma is, am I in the wrong or is the author? The author isn't Chinese (at all, as far I know) and it doesn't feel like Avatar (where Bryke researched, hired and traveled). So, am I just being ignorant and/or sensitive, or did they seriously just try to write a good novel with Chinese influences and degrade the race? The worst part is, I don't know who to go to. Racialicious? Angry Asian Man? LJ Comm? I really don't know. And another book I like just got annoying too. Magic or Madness is the only one I stuck with. Hopefully, I'll have better luck next time.

I guess it's just me, Perfume and Basquash now.