Hi everyone! Hannah, from hannahclaudia.blogspot.com, here. Audrey has graciously accepted my fan-girl request to collaborate, so in this blog post, I’m going to share a few photos and thoughts from my trip to a local coffee shop. Like Audrey, I’m a college student, and I’m currently located in Ithaca, NY. Unlike most college students, I’m just getting into the coffee world — and I’m loving it.
Runs, extensions, questions – 37/52 :)
I’m back to full school mode, and I think you’re going to be able to start seeing it in my Happy Lists. Outings and adventures will probably be less frequent… I’m still trying to find my rhythm and figure out how to balance school, blogging, socialising, and taking care of myself physically and emotionally. The previous Labor Day weekend was definitely needed, and I got some blog stuff done, but not as much CS stuff as I would have liked. This past weekend was filled with hosting a cappella auditions (as was last weekend), and next weekend I’ll be away for HACKMIT. Ahhh! So. much. to. do.
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
– I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review. –
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 06 Sept 2016
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Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.
Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood.
Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.
Labor Day sale haul
This is not the kind of blog post I usually write, but I’m just putting it here to shame myself for spending money. I have this thing where I need to explain to people what I buy so that I can validate my choices. Usually I’m not a shopper, online or offline, but once I buy one thing, the momentum just keeps building. I might write another post like this for all the new furniture I bought for my new apartment hmm…
Cake, coffee, cheese – 36/52 :)
It’s been an exhausting week of shopping five extra classes and an exhausting weekend of a cappella. It’s only been a week of school, but I am so thankful to have Labor Day off! I am writing this on Monday morning while eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes and wearing yesterday’s clothes (but they were clothes I changed into after my morning run and a shower, after which I didn’t leave the house, so they’re clean!!).
Old City Coffee
Reading Terminal Market is a huge indoor farmer’s market in Philly, and it has not one but two Old City Coffee vendors. Why? I have no idea. They’re conveniently located though; Reading Terminal Market is right above the SEPTA station. But today we didn’t check out either of them. Instead, we wandered down cobbled roads and found the actual Old City Coffee shop, where we planned to spend a productive day. After inhaling coffee and getting a bunch of pictures of course.