#oceanvuong — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oceanvuong, aggregated by home.social.
-
"The hardest thing in the world is to live only once."
-- #FirstSentences of Ocean Vuong, *The Emperor of Gladness*
---
Started this on a whim last night. Have to read it pretty quickly to get it back to the library in time, so might not have a ton of #ReadingNotes ... but I'll use this as a spot for sharing thoughts.Despite starting it on a whim, already 100 pages in --- so not too shabby so far!
-
Was planning to start Aaron John Curtis's *Old School Indian* this afternoon, but my wife brought home a copy of Ocean Vuong's *Emperor of Gladness* from the library and she hasn't started it yet.
Two very different books but am suddenly a bit torn. And by the rules of international engagement, I do believe that, since she hasn't started the Vuong yet, I can legally start it and then it's mine to finish.
Do I want a "poetic, dramatic, and vivid story," one that is "tender and moving," showing the "profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life" (Vuong, from the book jacket)?
Or do I want "humor, sincerity, and heartbreak," a book that is "brave, funny, and irreverent" (Curtis)?
Hmmm....
-
The week’s bestselling books, Aug. 17
Hardcover fiction 1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adve…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Books #AnnaleeNewitz #AtriaBooks #BallantineBooks #BruceHolsinger #DanielSilva #Entertainment #FredrikBackman #JohnBurgoyne #OceanVuong #PenguinPress #PeterAmesCarlin #RiverheadBooks #RobinWallKimmerer #SophieElmhirst #TaylorJenkinsReid #TorBooks
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/79762/ -
The week’s bestselling books, Aug. 17
Hardcover fiction 1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adve…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Books #AnnaleeNewitz #AtriaBooks #BallantineBooks #BruceHolsinger #DanielSilva #Entertainment #FredrikBackman #JohnBurgoyne #OceanVuong #PenguinPress #PeterAmesCarlin #RiverheadBooks #RobinWallKimmerer #SophieElmhirst #TaylorJenkinsReid #TorBooks
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/79762/ -
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/31/what-were-reading-writers-and-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-july #BarbaraKingsolver #Crimefiction #IrvineWelsh #OceanVuong #Culture #Fiction #Poetry #Books
-
“Lest we forget,
a morgue is also a community center.”- Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother
(From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)
#HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive