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My 1st book from this year's #NobelPrize winner. I was impressed by the first half, but disappointed that the narrator's quiet & moving story was pushed aside for almost straight non-fiction, admittedly also moving, and about events in #Korea's history that needed telling. So the fiction ended up being an artificial framing device for near-journalistic work. I was happy to read it all & learned a lot, but with a slight sense of frustration 😊

I've inhaled the 1st 1/3 of this book partly set in the highlands of Jeju Island in 1 sitting. So glad the Nobel Prize spurred me to read Han Kang now rather than at an indefinite point in the future.

I love the pic of mountains in Jeju I got from Wikipedia. It's perfect for the current season where I live (although it's winter AND snowing in the book).

A story about how massacre affected a young kid thru adulthood and her family. Well worth reading and learning about. Crushing in many ways but glimmers of hope, humanity and love shine throughout.

What a great story about a refugee who survived a massacre in the DR of Congo. She continues her memoir by explaining her journey to the US and how she had to learn how to feel herself in a forgein country.

Funny little book - about 60 pages are a summary of notes for a book about the wreck of the Batavia and the subsequent massacre, but with some smug asides that just made the author seem unpleasant. The author rightly points us to a better book on the wreck (by Mike Dash) and notes from which he has drawn much of the information he presents. Essentially, no reason to read this.
Prosper is an essay on a tuna fishing trip. I didn't care.

Justice, spearheaded by Arnett Doctor, is a struggle to obtain. But through determination and perseverance, Arnett finds light at the end of the tunnel for all the Rosewood families who witnessed or learned about the deaths in their promised land. Complete review at https://alwaysforeverreading.blog

The reading level is pretty easy that I feel like a sixth grader could understand it; however, it does talk about war, violence, and sexual assault might not be appropriate for young readers.
#2 for #stayhome24in48

That‘s what I call a home run!!!!!!