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#5JoysFriday!

🌹A perfect bloom in the rose garden at church
🤗 Every person in my Education for Ministry group!
👶🏼 A FB memory of the year my roommate‘s boyfriend made a baby Jesus-shaped cake for our Christmas party 😂
🎄📚Reading by the Christmas tree
🎶🎷My husband‘s big band Christmas concert last night

“A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day.”

I love when books have the ability to shock me, this one certainly did!

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Brought up some interesting questions about the futility of life and how ”to live is an act of violence”. But overall this book felt half baked, hollow and translated with zero emotions.

Does this book deserve the Booker Prize? Honestly, I didn‘t feel so. But, to each their own.

I finally picked up a Han Kang book. She sure punches a lot into such a short novel. I think this is the first book I‘ve read about anorexia. Yeong-hye begins having dreams and becomes vegetarian. Mental health and trauma plays a big part. The story is told by multiple POV‘s, all infuriated with Yeong-hye‘s decision to go against the grain of society.

Starting my Han Kang journey…

This book was a great representation of evil/repressed/depressed consciousness for the characters (or am I off) … the characters are struggling with their environment and life in general, but “the shadow” in psychology has been represented as the negative aspects of consciousness… therefore this aspect of the shadow was represented beautifully… Even though this is dark it delivers… I loved it

My #bookhaul from the First Light bookstore in Austin, TX.

4/5 ⭐️
Il racconto molto crudo di una persona in lotta con sé stessa, con gli altri e con l'ambiente che la circonda
Una storia molto forte e a tratti disturbante che lascia un senso di inquietudine e ti fa riflettere

I‘ve seen mixed reviews on this one but I have to say I loved it. Reseng is an assassin who changes a job which leads to consequences he could never have imagined. The story is populated with people who make a living killing often without knowing why someone needs to die. It‘s darkly comedic & human at the same time as secrets & motivations are revealed. The translation is excellent, the premise odd & intriguing & I loved the main character.