Author lauren hough11/23/2023 ![]() I normally don't write reviews but damn this book deserves it. Now Andrea can’t help but wonder: In the endless tug-of-war between pleasing others and pleasing herself, is there room for everyone to win? Too bad Suresh Aditparan, her office rival and the last man her family would approve of, keeps throwing a wrench in her plans. Yet when a chance encounter with charming, wealthy entrepreneur Eric Deng offers her a glimpse of an exciting, limitless future, Andrea decides to give Mr. And if she’s about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan–a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian family won’t let her forget–well, she doesn’t need a man to complete her. All she has to do is make law partner, and her life will be perfect. ![]() I’m a bit baffled by this.Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love.Īt thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore’s hottest clubs. Hough said Monday that she could not recall whether she hadĭeleted any tweets, and denied that any of her tweets hadīeen transphobic. Speaking of The Times, here’s their story today by reporter Marc Tracy on Lambda Literary’s revocation of Hough’s award nomination: Much of the knee-jerk reaction to the Times editorial board’s opinion seems like proof in and of itself that they were right.) (Snark aside, may I suggest that even if you disagree with the Times editorial board’s opinion, their polling results are eye-opening regarding whether Americans - on both the right and left - believe that we have a growing problem with tolerance for opinions we disagree with. Very strange that Hough’s award nomination would be revoked for this, because after The New York Times editorial board’s much-discussed opinion piece last week, backed by polling, arguing that America has a problem with free speech as a social ideal, I learned on Twitter that this just isn’t so and that “cancel culture” does not exist. Social media who are shockingly bad at reading books. World is terrified of a few hundred self-described book lovers on Themselves alone - their friends and colleagues silent for fear Authors haveĬhanged lines, characters, and scenes in their books hoping toĪvoid becoming a target, or to appease YA twitter once they have.Īnd once they have become targets, those writers often find Publishing hasn’t yet figured out how to respond to YA twitter.Īuthors who’ve been targeted have left social media entirely. They call it “call-out culture” becauseīullying is wrong, unless your target is someone you don’t like, They respond with a beatdown so unrelenting and vicious it would ![]() YA twitter gets wind of a book that doesn’t meet their demands, To portray a world without racism, bigotry, and bullies. They expectĬharacters and plot to be free of conflict. They expect fictional characters to be goodĪnd moral and just, whether antagonist or protagonist. YA twitter, presumably fans of young adultįiction, are somehow unfamiliar with the concept of fiction. This is the single most terrifying thing that can happen ![]() The premise of her book is “what if all the menĭisappeared.” When she announced the book on twitter, YA twitter My book won’t win a prize because my friend Sandra Newman wrote aīook. Author Lauren Hough Loses Lambda Prize Nomination After Suggesting People Read a Forthcoming Book Before They Condemn It
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