G. K. Chesterson's The Man Who Was Thursday became a bit debatable... it felt like a secret society, mildly prophetic spy novel, but it was nonetheless good!

Joined another 'book club'. I know it's Asian American studies' curriculum, but I never had the motivation to read this until now. Things that surprised me.. how brutal it was to be brown in those days with serious animosity towards immigrants that you never hear about in American history.. its dramatic and emotional. It's also amazing how he was constantly beat down in his life, but he still dreamed, read, worked and remained faithful and supported his family. I was also really surprised about all the literary references and how deep into reading he was. In almost all of John Fante's novels/novellas, he talks about working in the canneries with Filipinos and here Bulosan talks about working in the cannery and reading Fante. A similar story that this reminded me of is You Can't Win. Yea that's a pretty strong compliment.