Clubes de lectura - Marzo 2026 - El emperador de Alegría / L'emperador d'Alegria, de Ocean Vuong

La Repunantinha, viernes, 13 de marzo, 19:00 CET

En La Repunantinha llevamos a cabo diferentes clubes de lectura cada mes, con líneas temáticas diversas. Siempre con grupos reducidos (máximo 10 personas), incluyen pica pica y bebida para pasar un rato comentando las historias y siendo bastante mamarraches <3

En marzo...

¿Qué libros habrá?

DILEMA DEL ERIZO:
Viernes, 13/03/2026 - El emperador de Alegría, Ocean Vuong, ed. Anagrama

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Clubes de lectura - Marzo 2026

En La Repunantinha llevamos a cabo diferentes clubes de lectura cada mes, con líneas temáticas diversas. Siempre con grupos reducidos (máximo 10 personas), incluyen pica pica y bebida para pasar un rato comentando las historias y siendo bastante mamarraches <3 En marzo... ¿QUÉ LIBROS HABRÁ? DILEMA DEL ERIZO: Viernes, 13/03/2026 - El emperador de Alegría, Ocean Vuong, ed. Anagrama TOBOGÁN ROSA: Viernes, 20/03/2026 - Happy Endings, Lucie Bryon, ed. Nuevo nueve MUNDODISCO: Sábado, 14/03/2026 - El ladrón del tiempo, Terry Pratchett, ed. DeBolsillo UNA VEZ AL MES, ROMANOS: Miércoles, 25/03/2026 - L'ombra de l'estat / La sombra del estado, Rosas Negras, ed. Descontrol

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📚Ya podéis leer mi reseña de El emperador de Alegría (Anagrama, 2025) de Ocean Vuong en La Jungla de las Letras: https://lajungladelasletras.com/el-emperador-de-alegria/

Feliz día. 😉🖖🏼

#OceanVuong #anagramaeditorial #lajungladelasletras #victormorata #reseñasliterarias #HablandoDeLibros

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Reseña de El emperador de Alegría —La Jungla de las Letras

Reseña de El emperador de Alegría de Ocean Vuong. Una obra intimista sobre la redención, la empatía y la belleza de los vínculos improbables.

LaJUnglaDElasLETras

Liked the start, felt increasingly nauseous toward the end. Doesn't mean the book was bad, it just wasn't for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8078332473

#reading #bookstodon #OceanVuong #TheEmperorOfGladness

voodoocactus's review of The Emperor of Gladness

3/5: Wow. Um. Okay. Let’s start with that while the language itself is often breathtakingly beautiful, this isn’t exactly a pleasant book to read. This deals heavily with substance abuse, OD, suicidal thoughts, mental illness, dementia, poverty, animal cruelty, medical neglect, and estranged famlies. Yes, there’s hope. Yes, there’s love and families of choice and deep, meaningful friendship, but there’s also tangible stench of human waste, fast food grease, alcohol, and mold. I couldn’t have read this five years ago when my dad was losing himself to Alzheimer’s. And I sure as fuck couldn’t ha...

"The hardest thing in the world is to live only once."

-- #FirstSentences of Ocean Vuong, *The Emperor of Gladness*

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Started this on a whim last night. Have to read it pretty quickly to get it back to the library in time, so might not have a ton of #ReadingNotes ... but I'll use this as a spot for sharing thoughts.

Despite starting it on a whim, already 100 pages in --- so not too shabby so far!

#OceanVuong #NowReading

Was planning to start Aaron John Curtis's *Old School Indian* this afternoon, but my wife brought home a copy of Ocean Vuong's *Emperor of Gladness* from the library and she hasn't started it yet.

Two very different books but am suddenly a bit torn. And by the rules of international engagement, I do believe that, since she hasn't started the Vuong yet, I can legally start it and then it's mine to finish.

Do I want a "poetic, dramatic, and vivid story," one that is "tender and moving," showing the "profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life" (Vuong, from the book jacket)?

Or do I want "humor, sincerity, and heartbreak," a book that is "brave, funny, and irreverent" (Curtis)?

Hmmm....

#Bookstodon #AaronJohnCurtis #OceanVuong

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Lesungen, Live-Streams & Tickets ★ T.C. Boyle, Ocean Vuong, Ferdinand von Schirach, Pen!smuseum, Stadelmann liest Höcke, Sten Nadolny, Lars Eidinger, Sebastian Fitzek, Ian McEwan und mehr. auxlitera präsentiert mit seinen Ticketpartnern Reservix und Eventim Karten für die Big Ones in Big München.

https://auxlitera.de/2025/09/07/muenchen-mosaik/

#münchen #literatur #lesungen #larseidinger #tcboyle #oceanvuong

Reading Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Having been a huge Joan Didion fan for years, I was startled to find her quoted in his opening pages:

“I want to tell you the truth, and already I have told you about the wide rivers.” #OceanVuong #JoanDidion

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian

»One senses that this novel is written to appear “unsentimental.” I find it very sentimental.«

Wenn Brandon Taylor den aktuellen Roman »The Emperor of Gladness« von Ocean Vuong analysiert, dann ist so ein Sonntagvormittag ruckzuck rum.

#TEoG #OceanVuong #BrandonTaylor

https://www.bookforum.com/fiction/states-of-grace-62313