being a sapphic means that the only thing you know is pain.

I try to read basically everything.I am a book nerd in a way that is all-encompassing, not limited to any genre or niche but instead poisoning every category of literature (as well as books that could never be called literature even if you were being nice) in order to be absolutely as annoying as possible to both everyone I know in real life and everyone on this website.That being said:1) I have read less young adult stuff this year than ever in my life, and2) recently I have decided to all but

i absolutely adored this book!! last night at the telegraph club is probably the most engaging and vivid historical novel i've read thus far. it feels firmly rooted in 1950s san francisco, where 17-year-old chinese american lily lives and has her sapphic awakening.it's about a lot of things: dreaming about outer space & things bigger than your world, tender first love, close family bonds & conflict, childhood friendships that eventually run their course, foggy san francisco, growing up in chinat...

too many flashbacks to straight people

4.50 Stars. Now I know why this book had a lot of hype surrounding it. It was excellent and I’m glad I got to read it before the year ended. I have read quite a few of Lo’s books, but it has been around 9 years since I have read any of them. I was very interested to see how she has evolved as an author and all I can say is wow. This felt like a huge step-up from her earlier books and it was really cool to see the author she has become. I don’t know what happened but I had no idea what this book

The cover of this book is absolutely stunning, but the actual story didn't have the same impact that the cover did. While I found the picture of life for a Chinese American girl in 1950s San Francisco fascinating, the story seemed to move at a snail like pace.I enjoyed Lily and Kath's relationship, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I found the Telegraph Club, it's performers and patrons more interesting. Thinking back on it, I can't really say who Kath was, she was very generic and aside f...

I loved this!! it was so interesting getting to read about history that has largely been left unexplored or supressed and the intersection of being Chinese-American in the USA at the time of the Red Scare, as well as a young woman interested in STEM and a lesbian exploring the lesbian bar scene.I really enjoyed Lily as a character and reading from her perspective. She was really easy to empathise with and understand and I loved the journey she went on as she realised this new part of her identit...

i tried to write a review for this book when i first read it back in august, and have attempted to write several since then and,,put it off but now i’ve finished reading it for a second time i have no excuses left to put off writing a review for this so, first of all, if i were to try and rate this objectively it probably wouldn’t be a 5 star read. there’s definitely a lot of loose ends in this book, plot points that are very briefly touched on and then not spoken of again throughout the book. i...

deeply emotionally compelling. As a chinese American femme I’m gonna need someone to step up and be my Kathleen

“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground?” Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a lovely coming of age story of Lily Hu, a 17-year-old Chinese-American, set in the 1950s in Chinatown (San Francisco).Queer Asian Historical Fiction? Women interested in STEM?? YESS YES AND YESS “Perhaps that was the most perverse part of this: the inside-outness of everything, as if denial would make it go away, when it only made the pain in her chest t

✨🌃🛩🪐" An unfamiliar emotion swelled inside her at this image. A strangely sharp pang for a place she had never visited. For a people she resembled but did not know.”1950s Chinatown. Sapphic. Women in STEM.Girl who wants to make planes meets girl who wants to fly. It's perfection, really. I don’t make the rules 🤷‍♀️ Taking place in 1950s Chinatown in San Fransisco, our main character Lily Hu, is a Chinese American who starts to ask herself some questions: what does she want to be when she grows u...

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW IN EN & ZH-TW有聲書書評（中英對照） ENContent warning: racism, homophobia, manipulation, mention of miscarriage, alcohol (underage drinking) She couldn’t find the right words for this dammed-up feeling inside, as if she were denying herself something absolutely vital, and she didn’t know why. Last Night at the Telegraph Club is less about the romance between Lily and Kath but more about Lily trying to grasp her identity as a Chinese American lesbian in the 1950s.In the prologue, four

this is perhaps one of the most interesting and informative books i've ever read. the historical and cultural parts were everything my gay history heart could hope for and more. malinda lo transports you to a whole different place and time, and it felt so vivid; i could literally picture everything, as if i was, indeed, right there!the thing, though, is that i expected to feel this sort of things-not for the background, but for the characters and their relationships. i definitely rooted for lily...

4.5 Stars CWs: Some exploration of racism, deportation, xenophobia, homophobia, underage drinking, some graphic sex, brief mention of miscarriage, some use of outdated racial and social epithets (relevant to time period), some exploration of familial estrangement and disownmentI'll just say it: this is the queer historical YA of my dreams. It manages to capture an impeccable sense of place and time while also celebrating and reclaiming queer histories. That is 100% my jam, and I think Malinda...

Content warnings:(view spoiler)[gay club raid, homophobia, racism, exotification, use of the n-word as a descriptor (hide spoiler)] I loved this book so so much.It was so tentative and gentle but simultaneously rough to read at times and heartbreaking. It not only tackles what it was like to be an Asian queer woman (lesbian) in the 50s, but it also tackles the issues the Chinese community faces back then, head on. So it's a pretty well rounded story. I loved the way Lili and Kath's relationship

The amount of positive, affirming, LGBT representation in young adult fiction has skyrocketed since I was a teenager. For that reason, every time I read a book like Last Night at the Telegraph Club, I get a little overwhelmed by how glad I am that a book like this exists. Not just so that I can read and enjoy it, but so current and future LGBT teenagers can see themselves reflected in the books they read in a way I never did. Any book that communicates a message of “LGBT people exist, LGBT peopl...