R.F. Kuang Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/r-f-kuang/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:15:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg R.F. Kuang Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/r-f-kuang/ 32 32 38398750 Katabasis by R.F. Kuang https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:39:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19377 I’ve read and enjoyed both of R.F. Kuang’s adult novels (Babel, Yellowface) so was looking forward to her latest, Katabasis. A Greek word meaning “going down or descending” this chunky novel is about Alice Law, an American student getting her graduate degree in Magick from Cambridge. The title refers to Alice’s descent into Hell to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/feed/ 3 19377 My 8 Favorite Books of 2023 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:20:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18102   Finally! Let’s talk reading again, specifically my favorite books of 2023 so we can move onto what lies ahead in 2024. It was an interesting year in that I don’t remember another time when I had this many 5-star nonfiction books. I’m not even sure I’ve ever read so much great nonfiction in one […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/feed/ 12 18102 Yellowface: A Novel by R.F. Kuang https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/yellowface-a-novel-by-r-f-kuang/#comments Mon, 29 May 2023 07:09:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17582 I’ve contorted the truth into such ways that I can, in fact, make peace with it. THIS. BOOK. Yikes. Ostensibly, Yellowface is about June Hayward, an aspiring writer who has quietly seethed as her friend Athena gets the success and accolades June craves. When Athena dies in a tragic accident June uses it as an […]

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