#Cho Nam-Joo

[words-and-coffee]

Don’t stay out of trouble. Run wild! Run wild, you hear me?

Cho Nam-Joo,  Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (translated by Jamie Chang)

[random-bookquotes]

He likes me? He picks on me because he likes me? Jiyoung was confused. She went over the series of incidents that she had suffered because of him, and still couldn’t make sense of what the teacher was saying. If you like someone, you’re friendlier and nicer to them. To friends, to family, to your pet dogs and cats. Even at the age of eight, this was common sense to Jiyoung. The desk-mate’s pranks made school life so difficult for her. What he’d put her through was awful enough, and now the teacher was making her out to be a bad child who misunderstood her friend.

Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

[peoplefromheaven]

Remember when I said I was going to stop buying books? Oops.

[hummelig]

my fav books

I just gave someone a list of my fav books and I guess Imma post it here too enjoy please give me ur unfiltered opinions

The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai), Earthlings (Sayaka Murata), Effie Briest (Fontane), Solitaire (Alice Oseman), Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo), Woyzeck (Georg Büchner), Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (Ödön Horvath), The Kangaroo Chronicles (Marc Uwe Kling, better in German), Steppenwolf ( Hermann Hesse), Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 (Cho Nam-Joo), Animal Farm (George Orwell), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon), Eating Animals (Jonathan Foer) and Barn 8 (Deb Olin Unferth)

[gynmind]

It was a given that fresh rice hot out of the cooker was served in the order of father, brother, and grandmother, and that perfect pieces of tofu, dumplings, and patties were the brother's while the girls ate the ones that fell apart. The brother had chopsticks, socks, long underwear, and school and lunch bags that matched, while the girls made do with whatever was available. If there were two umbrellas, the girls shared. If there were two treats, the girls shared. If there were two blankets, the girls shared. It didn't occur to the child Jiyoung that her brother was receiving special treatment, so she wasn't even jealous. That's how it had always been. There were times when she had an inking of a situation not being fair, but she was accustomed to rationalizing things by telling herself that she was being a generous older sibling and that she shared with her sister because they were both girls. Jiyoung's mother would praise the girls for taking good care of their brother and not competing for her love. Jiyoung thought it must be the big age gap. The more their mother praised, the more impossible it became for Jiyoung to complain.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. Add this book to your feminist reading lists!

[alguem-escreveu]

Jiyoung's lack of response to his lecture prompted the father to say, "You just stay out of trouble and get married."

That wasn't the worst thing he'd ever said to her, but it was the last straw for Jiyoung, who was holding her spoon upright. Jiyoung was attempting to take a deep breath when an ear-splitting crack, like pickaxe on rock, rang at the table. Her mother, face crimson, had smacked the spoon on the table.

"How can you say something so backward in this day and age? Jiyoung, don't stay out of trouble. Run wild! Run wild, you hear me?"

(Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982)

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Unused cover for

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982: A Novel

By Cho Nam-Joo.

Design by Yang Kim.

[amorinarose]

Chilling in March 2024, a spotlight on K.E.Turner and timeout

The end of this month is closing in and I have actually finished my post. Last minute is always so stressful but I was determined Chilling in March would be on time. Lately, health issues and self-doubt have had me wonder just what I am doing. My efficiency has waned and so has enjoyment and where reading has always been my ‘go to’ relaxation, it has become a means of raising the stress levels.…

[readinginmars]

"Besides, I don't know if I'm going to get married, or if I'm going to have children. Or maybe I'll die before I get to do any of that. Why do I have to deny myself something I want right now to prepare for a future that may or may not come?"

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-joo

[onecouldnotcountthemoons]

I finished reading this last night and I cannot find the words to describe how much I loved it.

The way the building in the final few pages is described, it was so vivid and haunting.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[emilyccannings]

Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo Low-Down

Kim was born in South Korea in the 1980s but now she is a model mother and something doesn't feel right to her.

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[words-and-coffee]

The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn’t actually changed at all.

Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (translated by Jamie Chang)

[random-bookquotes]

“Help out? What is it with you and ‘helping out?’ You’re going to ‘help out’ with chores. ‘Help out’ with raising our baby. ‘Help out’ with finding me a new job. Isn’t this your house, too? Your home? Your child? And if I work, don’t you spend my pay, too? Why do you keep saying ‘help out’ like you’re volunteering to pitch in on someone else’s work?”

Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

[klainesheilen]

finished Miss Kim weiss bescheid (I couldn't find an English version yet) by Cho Nam-Joo the same author who wrote Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Instead following one woman we have seven stories about seven different women. It's a four star read but I still prefer Kim Jiyoung somehow. I think it's because there we don't change stories.