Ppl love hating on ocean vuong. I didn’t realize we couldn’t dislike Jane Austen’s novels. The way ppl react as if she should be mandatory reading is weird. It’s ridiculous. let ppl read whatever they own.
“I have tried reading this book maybe seven times so far, and each time I make it only 40 or so pages before I have this urge to do … anything but live inside upper middle-class concerns about who marries who among the 18th-century English gentry.”
—“Shelf Life: Ocean Vuong”
my students being shocked when i told them i have never used grammarly in my life. some of them have used it since 6th grade. oh gorl... the shock on their faces when I told them that some ppl consider grammarly generative AI...