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Sorry i can't type all this out but a photo of the page where the boy confesses to his grandpa that his grandmother was already pregnant the night they met, and this they are not actually related. The man says "maybe you shouldn't call me Grandpa anymore." And the boy disagrees "I don't got any other grandpa. So I wanna keep calling you that "
On this page from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, the boy and his unrelated grandfather are walking the dog. A neighbor presumes the boy is their hired dog walker. The man corrects her, "no," Paul says awkwardly, as if waving away cobwebs. "This is my grandson."
From On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, #OceanVuong this set up and delivery a few pages later hit me so hard in the feels. 😭 (Minor spoilers)
#booksky #nowreading
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In a letter to his mother who can't read.
Page *six and feels already.
#OceanVuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
#nowreading #booksky
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It's hard to describe how this story captivates you and leaves its mark.
Grief, trauma and beauty are so densely intertwined here, leaving their mark. Absolutely wonderful.
#books #oceanvuong #auferdensindwirkurzgrandios
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My review of The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, a novel that would have been outstanding if it didn't keep explaining itself to the reader. #TheEmperorofGladness #OceanVuong www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Got some #bookmail today! Two I've been meaning to read and one I listened to on #audiobook and wanted to add to my collection.
-On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
-Maurice by E.M. Forster
-Providence by Craig Willse
#books #booksky #gaylit #oceanvuong #emforster #craigwillse
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Started off the year with 5 reads. Ocean’s book, The Emperor of Gladness, is still lingering in my heart. ❤️
#TheEmperorOfGladness #OceanVuong #fable
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"Kaiser der Freude" - ein euphemistischer Titel für eine traurig schöne Ode an die Antihelden unserer Gesellschaft
Neue #Rezension auf #Lovelybooks
www.lovelybooks.de/autor/Ocean-...
#buchsky #booksky #germanbooksky #oceanvuong
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"Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?"
-Ocean Vuong
#unabooksboardthoughts
#oceanvuong
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Meine #currentreads
"Kaiser der Freude" höre ich im Badezimmer, "Wohnen" ist so schön leicht und steckt in meiner Tasche für unterwegs und "Swingtime" lese ich abends im Bett.
Wo lest ihr am liebsten?
#booksky #germanbooksky
#oceanvuong #dorisdörrie #zadiesmith
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Back with Hai and Grazina. Paused this before the winter break because it didn’t seem practical to bring thick hardcovers with my travels. Let’s see if this might be my first 2026 completed read. #BookSky #OceanVuong
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So glad to see so many of our 2025 #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival authors on this list! @adacalhoun.bsky.social #AriaAber #OceanVuong #RobFranklin
The 29 Best Fiction Books of 2025, According to Editors www.elle.com/culture/book...
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Some of Vuong’s sentences are so fragile, I’m nervous they’ll break if I turn the page. So I don’t. And read them over and over again, until they are imprinted in my mind—and I can let them break. #OnEarthWe’reBrieflyGorgeous #OceanVuong #BookChat #booksky
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Started this novel before the movie starts filming. I probably will end up not seeing the movie—like Hamnet. I’m afraid it won’t do the book justice
#gerryreads #oceanvuong #vietnameseamerican #aapi
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#OceanVuong #books #beautiful #oprah #Vegans #LGBTQ
#VietnameseAmerican #heartwarming #kindness “ The hardest thing in the world is to live only once. But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree.”
Ocean Vuong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CghR...
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It’s that time of year, and chances are that this gem by Ocean Vuong will make the list of books to be wrapped—at least twice. What reads will you be gifting? #OnEarthWereBrieflyGorgeous #OceanVuong #BookChat #booksky #christmas
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Good morning
from a queer boy in the south who just finished Night Sky
With Exit Wounds for the first time
#oceanvuong
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After hating his novel BRIEFLY GORGEOUS, I was pleasantly surprised to fall in love with his first collection of poetry.
#oceanvuong
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Just finished Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness. Beautiful work and story. Highly recommend. It is now my fav of Vuong’s. Thank you for the work. #oceanvuong #worksoffiction #lit
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Please enjoy @carablueadams.bsky.social and #OceanVuong in conversation from this past weekend's #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival
www.youtube.com/live/1h4Jygl...
#Fiction #AuthorTalks #AuthorPanel #TheEmperorOfGladness #Vermont #Brattleboro
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NEW The Way Out Is In #podcast 🔔 This is the recording of our second live public event. Brother Phap Huu & Jo Confino are joined on stage by special guest Ocean Vuong 🙏🏽
On the app 👉🏽 link.plumvillage.app/tLE4
More here 👉🏽 plumvillage.org/podcast/cult...
#mindfulness #OceanVuong #Buddhism #zen #joy
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First sentences:
”The hardest thing in the world is to live only once. But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree.“
#OceanVuong: The Emperor Of Gladness (Penguin Press, New York, 2025)
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Cute as a button Vietnamese-American writer Vương Quốc Vinh, aka Ocean Vuong, best known for his novels “On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous” and “The Emperor of Gladness”, was BOTD in 1988, turning 37 today. #oceanvuong #supergays #bornonthisday
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What if the body, at its best, is only a longing for body? The blood racing to the heart only to be sent back out, filling the routes, the once empty channels, the miles it takes to take us toward each other. #OceanVuong, #OnEarthWe'reBrieflyGorgeous
#nikon
#photography
#rain
#road
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@alisonespach.bsky.social @robfranklin.bsky.social #MakennaGoodman #AdamHaslett #AllegraHyde #JonasHassenKhemiri #BetsyLerner @sallywenmao.bsky.social #PeterMendelsund @samsussman.bsky.social #OceanVuong @timweedwriter.bsky.social
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