#about eu

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ive been reading so much Sherlock Holmes these past 2-3 months that i thought i got used to him and his deranged behavior but im reading The Hound of the Baskervilles rn and mf just did something so goddamn appalling that i had to say “what the actual fuck is wrong with you” out loud

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Just look all this info about jedi temple of Lothal!, it look  like Dave hiding so much info!

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Just finished Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell I’ll write a better review later but for now these are my thoughts # O’Brien x Winston 4Ever

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About Eu

Hello hello! 👋🏽 My name is Eu (@eu_gi_oh on Twitter). Any pronouns work. I am a Filipino immigrant living in Canada. My favorite color is blue. I like dogs, coffee, sleeping, jazz music, and squishy plushies. I have a BA in Honors English and MA in literature. I wrote my master’s on 19th to 20th century Japanese literature in Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa’s animanga series Bungou Stray Dogs. My favorite authors are Leo Tolstoy, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Osamu Dazai, Agatha Christie, and myself (hehe). My favorite books are Anna Karenina, Frankenstein, and No Longer Human (no one is surprised).

I mostly read and am interested in “classic” literature, mainly from North + Eastern Europe, North America, Japan, and the intersection between them, but I also just like anything. I love Indigenous/Native American, black, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, diaspora/immigration, and other forms of POC/marginalized lit. I usually don’t read stuff before the ancient classics period or past the 20th century, but I enjoy all types of literature, poems, plays, prose, nonfiction, history, biographies, folklore, fairytales, myths, and stories. (Occasionally I read something written by someone alive, but it's not a habit of mine).

My favorite genres are crime and detective fiction, Gothic/horror, Bildungsroman (coming-of-age), mystery, tragedy, speculative, and life writing. I don’t like dark fantasy, romance, or erotica/smut.

Blog Housekeeping

My content is 100% dependent on what I am currently interested in at the moment in terms of books. If you want to follow along with my reading and general literary nonsense, please feel free to talk to me! I tend to be all over the place so don’t expect much structure or organization (or fast replies). This account is for fun and sharing all things literature with others.

My ask box is open, but you can also talk to me on Twitter (@eu_gi_oh), Goodreads, and Tellonym. Tone indicators are appreciated! Please don’t ask me about booktok 😅

My book reviews are all tagged under #book review and are not spoiler free. (Most of the stuff I read is over a hundred years old, how can I be spoiling it?) Each review has a link to the Goodreads version for better accessibility.

Thank you for taking care of me! I hope we can have fun talking about books together 🥰

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Just a little correction to your claim, but "Kappa" wasn't Akutagawa's last work. That work was written and published in early 1927. He managed to write "Cogwheels", "A Fool's Life", and "A Man from the West" after that. "A Man from the West" is officially his last literary work, as he finished writing the sequel of the story during the night prior his suicide. It was followed by the suicide letter "A Note to A Certain Old Friend", which was addressed to his friend Kume Masao. I hope you will be careful in the future when claiming something to be last or first, or anything similar.

Thank you very much for the correction, I have no idea how I missed that. I guess I wrote the review super quickly and didn't remember to fact-check with what I already knew about Akutagawa, so I am grateful you noticed the mistake. I shall fix it on the original review, thanks again!

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I look forward to reading your review of the decay of the angel!

Personally I threw the book against the wall at the end, but I had gone through TSoF in one frantic go a few years back - anxious to see what you think!

uwaaah thanks so much for your message, I'm glad someone's reading my reviews and I'm not just sending them out to The Void. and youve read the series too, that's so awesome! but uh oh that reaction's kind of ominous ... i can't wait to find out how it concludes ...

right now since it's black history month, i'm reading literature by black authors until the end of february, so i'm afraid Yukio Mishima will have to wait until march, but i'm sure i'll get through it and have my review posted sooner than later! please look forward to it!

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Haii I found ur blog through your review of Kirino’s “Out.” You articulated a lot of the things that I’d felt about it for a long time :-3 keep up the great work!!

oh thank you so so much! 🥺🙏🏽 im glad i was able to arriculate your thoughts. i will keep trying my best please look forward to it 💙