Sejarah Melayu, Tun Seri Lanang, 1612 (approx), trans. John Leyden

• Malaysia, #1
• Accessed on https://malayannals.blogspot.com/
• Read 2019-2020
• Reading enjoyment: 3/5 (as always, a subjective assessment of my own reading pleasure, and not a qualitative judgement)

I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a quandary about this blog. I started out behind–I was writing about books roughly a year after I’d read them. I thought I would catch up, but I remained about a year behind for nearly four years, through moving to the US and having my first kid. But then we moved again, had a second child, the pandemic hit, and for a little while I didn’t read very much and wrote almost nothing at all. When the dust settled, I found that I remembered very little about the books I had been reading when this blog timed out. I’ve continued to read–I’m currently on Taiwan, which means I have almost all of Southeast Asia to write about, as well as Macau and Hong Kong. I have told myself that I should just write about what I’ve read most recently and come back to the other stuff later at some point, but I find that I am constitutionally incapable of moving on out of order. I did it once, with Laos, and it just didn’t feel right.

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