#yun ko eun

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Lecturas de julio. Primera semana

La turista / Yun Ko-eun. Editorial Reservoir Books, 2024 Con una tranquilidad admirable y prácticamente quirúrgica, Yun Ko-eun cuenta la historia de Yona, una trabajadora de una agencia de viajes llamada Jungle centrada en viajes descabellados a sitios en los que se ha producido un desastre natural (cuanto más calamitoso y mortal, mejor). Tras un pequeño incidente con su jefe, la empresa la…

[takeshitakyuuto]

I know that Yona of the Dawn is set in fake Korea but it still threw me for a loop starting a book translated from Korean and immediately coming across a character named Yona

[embossross]

2024 in books: fiction edition

literary fiction published 2014-2024

Nefando by Monica Ojeda (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - book of the year but warning it is the most triggering book i've ever read. i sobbed and could barely function for a full day. it's so painful. csa tw

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Tentacle by Rita Indiana (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Toño the Infallible by Evelio Rosero (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Outline by Rachel Cusk (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - rating this was the biggest challenge of the year because the highs are extraordinary but the lows are miserable. i literally hated it while reading it but then returned to it more than almost any other book this year.

black moses by alain mabanckou (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

crooked plow by itamar vieira junior (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

behold the dreamers by imbolo mbue (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the north water by ian mcguire (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

dr. no by percival everett (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

birth canal by dias novita wuri (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

transcendent kingdom by yaa gyasi (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh (⭐⭐⭐)

the gospel according to the new world by maryse condé (⭐⭐⭐)

manhattan beach by jennifer egan (⭐⭐⭐)

the archive of alternate endings by lindsey drager (⭐⭐⭐)

the inheritance games by jennifer lynn barnes

(⭐⭐⭐)

the aunt who wouldn't die by shirshendu mukhopadhyay (⭐⭐⭐)

deacon king kong by james mcbride (⭐⭐⭐)

four minutes by nataliya deleva (⭐⭐⭐)

blood red gy gabriela ponce padilla (⭐⭐⭐)

boulder by eva baltasar (⭐⭐⭐) - i appear to be the only person not dazzled by this book and feel left out of the party, but i just don't get it.

burnt sugar by avni doshi (⭐⭐)

you glow in the dark by liliana colanzi (⭐⭐)

the pisces by melissa broder (⭐⭐)

our wives under the sea by julia armfield (⭐⭐) - another beloved sapphic book that left me bored out of my mind. the writing about bodies felt very 2018 tumblr (non-complimentary)

the touch system by alejandara costamagna (⭐) - just pointless. one star is probably harsh though.

divided island by daniela tarazona (⭐) - i will admit i might be too dumb for this book

fiebre tropical by juli delgado lopera (⭐)

a door behind a door by yelena moskovich (⭐) - and the razzie goes to...!

literary fiction published 1971-2013

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Kassandra and the Wolf by Margarita Karapanou (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Ahab's Wife, or the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

My Tender Matador (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Happiness As Such by Natalia Ginzburg (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - the way he nails how people would react to the covid pandemic 7 years early is wild in an otherwise pulpy mob thriller

shalash the iraqi (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the disaster tourist by yun ko-eun (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

mother to mother by sindiwe magona (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the route of ice and salt by josé luis zárate (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

pussy, king of the pirates by kathy acker (⭐⭐⭐)

awake by harald voetmann (⭐⭐⭐)

the raven king by nora sakavic (⭐⭐⭐)

touch by adania shibli (⭐⭐⭐)

cold nights of childhood by tezer ozlu (⭐⭐⭐)

the foxhole court by nora sakavic (⭐⭐⭐)

akhenaten: dweller in truth by naguib mahfouz (⭐⭐⭐)

the rooftop by fernanda trías (⭐⭐⭐)

tell them of battles, kings and elephants by mathias enard (⭐⭐)

sea of lentils by antonio rojo benitez (⭐)

literary fiction published start of time-1970

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Masks by Fumiko Enchi (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Girl Upon Heaven's Pier by Eeva-Liisa Manner (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Final Exam by Julio Cortázar (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Two Novels: J and Seventeen by Kenzaburö Ōe (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - J is an easy 5 star but Seventeen is more of a mixed bag

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

night on the galactic railroad and other stores from ihatov by kenji miyazawa (⭐⭐⭐)

the wild geese by Ōgai mori (⭐⭐⭐)

the phantom of the opera (⭐⭐⭐) - despised this while reading but my god did it leave an impression. the phantom swimming around with his reed just lying in wait makes me burst out laughing once a quarter "do you choose the GRASSHOPPER, Christine???" he's so stupid

madame bovary by gustave flaubert (⭐⭐⭐)

orlando by virgnia woolf (⭐⭐⭐)

mr. president by miguel ángel asturias (⭐⭐)

four stories by h.p. lovecraft (⭐) - the racist stench is just emanating off these stories and they're boring too for good measure

the mysterious correspondent: new stories by marcel proust (⭐)

[musingsofmonica]

April 2024 Diverse Reads

April 2024 Diverse Reads:  

•”All We Were Promised” by Ashton Lattimore, April 2, Ballantine Books, Historical/Saga/African American & Black/Women

•”Real Americans” by Rachel Khong, April 30, Knopf Publishing Group, Contemporary/Family Life/Cultural Heritage/Asian American

•”The Cemetery of Untold Stories” by Julia Alvarez l, April 2, Algonquin Books, Literary/Fantasy/Magical Realism/Cultural Heritage/Hispanic & Latino/World Literature/Caribbean & West Indies

•”The Stone Home” by Crystal Hana Kim, April 2, William Morrow & Company, Literary/Historical/Saga/Psychological/World Literature/Korea/Multiple Timelines

•”Indian Burial Ground” by Nick Medina, April 16, Berkley Books, April 2, Horror/Thriller/Supernatural/Cultural Heritage/Native American & Aboriginal

•”A Magical Girl Retires” by Park Seolyeon, translated by Anton Hur, April 30, Harpervia, Contemporary/Fantasy/Feminist/World Literature/Korea

•”Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees” by 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, April 30, Ecco Press, Essays/Short Essays/Essay Collection/Memoir in Essay

•”Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire” by Alice Wong, April 30, Vintage, Essays/Short Essays/Essay Collection/People with Disabilities/Love & Romance/Human Sexuality/Social Science

•”The Backyard Bird Chronicles” by Amy Tan, April 23, Knopf Publishing Group, Personal Memoir/Personal Memoir in Journal/Animals - Birds/Motivational & Inspirational/Illustration

•”Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie, April 16, Random House, Personal Memoir/Literary Figure/Survival/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Discrimination & Race Relations/Social Justice 

•”Just for the Summer” by Abby Jimenez, April 02, Forever, Contemporary/Romance/Romantic Comedy/Women/Small Town & Rural

•”How to End a Love Story” by Yulin Kuang, April 09, Avon Books, Contemporary/Romance/Romantic Comedy/Multicultural & Interracial/Diversity & Multicultural/Cultural Heritage Asian American/Workplace/Family Life/Siblings/Women

•”When I Think of You” by Myah Arie, April 16, Berkley Books, Contemporary/Romance/Romantic Comedy/Women/Hollywood/Workplace/Diversity & Multicultural

•”Canto Contigo” by Jonny Garza Villa, April 09, Wednesday Books, Contemporary/Romance/Culwtural Heritage/Hispanic & Latino/LGBTQ

•”Table for One: Stories” by Ko-Eun Yun, translated by Lizzie Buehler, April 09, Columbia University Press, Literary/Short Stories/Women/World Literature/Korea

•”One of Us Knows” by Alyssa Cole, April 16, William Morrow & Company, Thriller/Suspense/Psychological/Mystery & Detective/Women Sleuths/Women

•”Ocean's Godori” by Elaine U. Cho, April 23, Zando - Hillman Grad Books, Science Fiction/Space Opera/Romance/Asian American/LGBTQ

•”Kill Her Twice” by Stacey Lee, April 23, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, YA/Historical/20th Century/Mysteries & Detective/Women Sleuths/Women/Culwtural Heritage/Asian American

•”You Know What You Did” by K. T. Nguyen, April 16, Dutton, Thriller/Psychological/Culwtural Heritage/Asian American

•”The Spoiled Heart” by Sunjeev Sahota, April 16, Viking, Contemporary/Political/Family Life/World Literature/England 

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thanks for the tag @the---hermit !

End of the Year Book Tag

Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish?

Hmm, I definitely want to finish Transgender Marxism edited by Elle O'Rourke, Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James and the combined volume of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. These have been on my stack In Progress Books wayyy too long...

Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year?

I don't really read according to seasons, it's just whatever whenever.

Is there a new release you're still waiting for?

Just today I got the mail that my edition of Murtagh by Christopher Paolini got shipped! So I'm waiting on that to arrive!

What are three books you want to read before the end of the year?

I'm really excited to read My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris, I Will Greet The Sun Again - Khashayar J. Khabushani and Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko Eun!

Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year?

Considering I already read When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb AND Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo this year (and also I reread the Tarot Sequence books) there's no way that'll happen.

Have you already started making reading plans for next year?

I rarely do, I have - like the last couple of years - a loose plan to try and finish all the unread books on my shelf which so far I have soundly failed.... I'll just try again next year. Oh, and I'm REALLY hoping Alecto the Ninth will be released next year, the wait is driving me insane!

please feel tagged if you want to do this!

[inittowinit]

books read (July 2024 - Jan 2025)

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

Splinters, Leslie Jamison

Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung

All Fours, Miranda July

The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-Eun

Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart

Easy Tiki, Chloe Frechette

Out There, Kate Folk

Some Collages, Jim Jarmusch

My Brilliant Friend [graphic novel], Elena Ferrante, Chiara Legani, and Mara Cerri

New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics South Korea roster

Archery

Je-Deok Kim (Seoul)

Woo-Jin Kim (Okcheon Gun)

Woo-Seok Lee (Incheon)

Hun-Young Jeon (Incheon)

Si-Hyeon Lim (Gangneung)

Su-Hyeon Nam (Suncheon)

Athletics

Jangwoo Kim (Seoul)

Byeong-Gwang Choe (Seoul)

Sang-Hyeok Woo (Daejeon)

Badminton

Hyeok-Jin Jeon (Ulsan)

Min-Hyuk Kang (Suwon)

Seung-Jae Seo (Buan Gun)

Won-Ho Kim (Suwon)

Ga-Eun Kim (Suwon)

Se-Young An (Gwangju)

Ha-Na Baek (Gimcheon)

So-Hee Lee (Ulsan)

So-Yeong Kim (Incheon)

Hee-Yong Kong (Jincheon Gun)

Yoo-Jung Chae (Suwon)

Na-Eun Jeong (Seoul)

Boxing

Ae-Ji Im (Hwasun Gun)

Yeon-Ji Oh (Gunsan)

Breakdancing

Hong-Yul Kim (Seoul)

Climbing

Eun-Cheol Shin (Seoul)

Dohyun Lee (Seoul)

Chae-Hyun Seo (Seoul)

Cycling

Eu-Ro Kim (Seoul)

Min-Ji Song (Seoul)

Diving

Jaegyeong Yi (Ulsan)

Jung-Whi Shin (Seoul)

Ha-Ram Woo (Busan)

Yeong-Taek Kim (Incheon)

Na-Hyun Kim (Seoul)

Su-Ji Kim (Changwon)

Equestrian

Young-Shik Hwang (Osan)

Fencing

Jae-Won Kim (Seoul)

Tae-Gyu Ha (Seoul)

Bon-Gil Gu (Daegu)

Sang-Uk Oh (Daejeon)

Sang-Won Park (Daejeon)

Gyeong-Dong Do (Yeongcheon)

Se-Ra Song (Geumsan Gun)

Hye-In Lee (Ulsan)

Young-Mi Kang (Incheon)

In-Jeong Choi (Geumsan Gun)

Ji-Su Yoon (Busan)

Sebin Choi (Suwon)

Ha-Young Jeon (Daejeon)

Eun-Hye Jeon (Daejeon)

Golf

Joo-Hyung Kim (Seoul)

Byeong-Hun An (Orlando, Florida)

Hee-Young Yang (Orlando, Florida)

Hyo-Joo Kim (Wonju)

Jin-Young Ko (Frisco, Texas)

Gymnastics

Jun-Ho Lee (Seoul)

Woong Hur (Seoul)

Sung-Hyun Ryu (Seoul)

Seo-Jeong Yeo (Yongin)

Do-Hyun Eom (Seoul)

Da-Yeong Lee (Seoul)

Yun-Seo Lee (Seoul)

Sol-Yi Shin (Chungju)

Handball

Bitna Woo (Seoul)

Eunseo Kang (Seoul)

Ji-Yeon Jeon (Samcheok)

Da-Young Kim (Busan)

Jin-Mi Shin (Seoul)

Ji-Young Song (Gwangmyeong)

Eun-Joo Shin (Incheon)

Eun-Hee Ryu (Incheon)

Jin-Hui Jeong (Seoul)

Sae-Young Park (Seoul)

Mi-Seul Han (Sokcho)

Eun-Hye Kang (Seoul)

Kyung-Min Kang (Incheon)

Bo-Eun Gim (Samcheok)

Judo

Won-Jin Kim (Cheorwon Gun)

Ba-Ul An (Anyang)

Joon-Hwan Lee (Gumi)

Ju-Yeop Han (Seoul)

Min-Jong Kim (Seoul)

Hye-Kyeong Lee (Ulsan)

Ye-Rin Jung (Daegu)

Mi-Mi Huh (Tokyo, Japan)

Ji-Su Kim (Himeji, Japan)

Hyun-Ji Yoon (Cheorwon Gun)

Ha-Jun Kim (Busan)

Pentathlon

Woong-Tae Jung (Gwangju)

Changwan Seo (Yeongam)

Sunwoo Kim (Seoul)

Seung-Min Seong (Daegu)

Sailing

Jee-Min Ha (Busan)

Shooting

Daehan Choe (Changwon)

Min-Su Kim (Seoul)

Ha-Jun Park (Yangyang Gun)

Won-Ho Lee (Busan)

Yeong-Jae Cho (Chuncheon)

Jong-Ho Song (Seoul)

Eun-Seo Lee (Seoul)

Kook-Hee Jang (Seoul)

Ji-Hyeon Keum (Ulsan)

Ha-Na Im (Wonju)

Ye-Ji Kim (Danyang Gun)

Ye-Jin Oh (Hacheon-Ri)

Ji-In Yang (Namwon)

Gee-Eun Kang (Seoul)

Bo-Na Lee (Seoul)

Swimming

Dong-Yeol Choi (Seoul)

Min-Seop Kim (Seoul)

Yeonghyeon Kim (Seoul)

Ji-Hun Kim (Seoul)

Yu-Chan Ji (Gwangju)

Sun-Woo Hwang (Suwon)

Woo-Min Kim (Busan)

Ju-Ho Lee (Seoul)

Sung-Jae Cho (Ansan)

Ho-Joon Lee (Seoul)

Yoo-Yeon Lee (Anyang)

Jae-Hoon Yang (Jinhae)

Yoonseo Hur (Seoul)

Ri-Young Lee (Seoul)

Yeon-Kyung Hur (Seoul)

Eunji Lee (Seoul)

Seo-Yeong Kim (Suwon)

Table tennis

Dae-Seong Cho (Seoul)

Woo-Jin Jang (Sokcho)

Jong-Hoon Lim (Busan)

Ji-Hee Jeon (Seoul)

Yu-Bin Shin (Suwon)

Eun-Hye Lee (Seoul)

Taekwondo

Tae-Joon Park (Ulsan)

Geon-Woo Seo (Seoul)

Yu-Jin Kim (Danyang Gun)

Da-Bin Lee (Ulsan)

Weightlifting

Joo-Hyo Bak (Goyang)

Dong-Ju Yu (Sunchang Gun)

Yeon-Hak Jang (Asan)

Su-Hyeon Kim (Suwon)

Hye-Jeong Park (Ansan)

Wrestling

Seung-Jun Kim (Seoul)

Seung-Chan Lee (Seoul)

Hanbit Lee (Seoul)

[kimmysiops]

I'M BEYOND PROUD OF THESE PEOPLE.

I'm so proud of you, Kimmy! Sobrang dami mong pinagdaanan this year. Proud na proud ako sa‘yo! Grabe, nakayanan mo ‘yun?! Be stronger pa ha, you'll face more problems and traumas pa pero alam kong kakayanin mo. (Wala kang choice gago) You have to be strong for yourself, for your special ones. Kimpot will always cheer for you, Kimmy.

I'm so proud of you, ate Zee! Nakita ko kung paano ka umiyak, tumawa, mag trabaho, maglaro lahat lahat. Sabi ko nga sa‘yo, kahit na ano pang gawin mo proud ako sa‘yo kahit manood lang ng Tulfo ‘yan o ng nag e-embalsamo sa YouTube, ganyan kita ka-mahal teh! You deserve all the love and happiness in this world. I wish you nothing but the very best in life (especially lovelife🤞🏻) Nakita natin ‘yung growth ng isa‘t isa. Grabe, konti nalang mabubuo mo na teenage years ko😭 Thank you for making each year memorable. You don't know how lucky and grateful I am to have you in my life. Thank you so much for staying with me, ate Z. I love you so much! More years to ussss!

I'm so proud of you, ate Clang! I saw how cruel the world is to you:( I'm so proud of you for being brave. Please, sa 2024 stop being a people pleaser haaa. Ang pure mong tao to the point na kahit ako hindi mo deserve and I'm so sorry about it. Thank you for making my 2023 happy and memorable. Thank you for being there, ALWAYS. I love you so much, ate Clang!

I'm so proud of you, Mabel! Halos kalahati na ng taon nung nakilala kita ulit. Kahit sa maigsing panahon na ‘yun, naging sobrang proud ako sa‘yo. I'm sorry kung ganito ka cruel ‘yung mundo sa‘yo ah. I swear I'm trying na maging ate rin sa‘yo kaso masyado akong mahiyain for that. I miss you so much, Mabol:( Palagi lang akong nandito para sa‘yo. I love you!

I'm so proud of you, Ly! Alam kong hindi mo ‘to mababasa kaya push ko na ‘to. Grabe pag s-suffer mo this year:( Kung kaya ko lang kuhanin ‘yung iba dun to help you and make you feel better. Sobrang proud ako na nakayanan mo lahat ‘yun! Thank you for being there. Thank you sa lahat lahat. Hindi mo alam kung gaano ako ka-grateful na mayroon akong ikaw. Napagaan mo nang sobra ‘yung buhay ko ‘teh! I love you so much, my Copy-Ed! I'm always here for you, alam mo ‘yan.

I'm so proud of you, Mikmik! You are one of the strongest people I know. Lagi mong tatandaan na ate is always here for you ha (kahit na ikaw laging nag a-act na ate sa‘ting dalawa). Kahit na gaano ka ka-random at ka-iritang tao, love na love pa rin kita. Huwag mo masyadong lunurin sarili mo sa acads, napapabayaan mo sarili mo eh. You are one of the best partners I've ever had. I love you, pookie bear ko!

I'm so proud of you, Anyel ko! Grabe pang ta-tarantado ng mga tao sa‘yo ngayong taon:( I'm so proud of you for being brave. Kinaya mo!!! Kakayanin mo pa rin ‘yung mga susunod. Lagi lang akong nandito para sa‘yo, kahit tatawagan mo lang ako para umiyak, magpa-antok, sasamahan pa rin kita kahit anong oras pa ‘yan. I love you so much, baby ko!

I'm so proud of my girlies! Sama sama tayong naghirap simula nung grade 9 hanggang 10. Thankful ako na kayo ‘yung nakasama ko. Thank you for making those days memorable. Naging worth it naman lahat ng paghihirap at iyak natin. Hindi ako showy sa inyo pero love na love ko kayong tatlo.

I'm so proud of you, my Ali, Eun, and Xy! Ginanern ba naman ng lovelife😓 Pero ang strong niyo, kahit na ilang heart break naranasan niyo sa lovelife hindi kayo natatakot na magmahal pa rin genuinely. Ang swerte ko sa inyo. I miss you all so much! I love you all!

Last but not the least, my mami and dadi!

I'm so proud of you, mami! Idol na idol talaga kita this year mi, nakita ko ‘yung hirap mo sa araw araw:( Thank you for doing that for us. I'm really sorry kung minsan nakakaramdam ako ng pain from u or sainyo ni dadi, believe me ayaw ko naman po talaga maramdaman e. Sobrang brave mo mami! Sana kaya ko rin maging ganyan:( I love you so so much, mami! Mag i-ingat ka po palagi ha, babawi po ako sainyo promise.

I'm so proud of you, dadi! Nakaka-proud po ‘yung sipag na mayroon kayo ni mami. Sorry po ulit ha. Promise po, hindi ko sasayangin ‘yung pagod niyo ni mami para sa‘min. I love you, dadi! Ingat ka po palagi ha. I love you so much, dadi! Babawi ako sainyo, promise.

[shiptowreck]

been seeing end of year reading posts going around and wanted to share the list of everything i read this year!! it’s under the cut if you’re interested :)

1. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

2. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

4. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

6. Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson

7. Educated by Tara Westover

8. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

9. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

10. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

11. Joan by Katherine J. Chen

12. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

13. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

14. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

15. Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee

16. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

17. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

18. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

19. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

20. Idol Burning by Rin Usami

21. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

22. The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun

23. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

24. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

25. Bones and All by Camille DeAngelis

26. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

27. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

28. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

29. Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

30. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

31. Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

32. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

33. Get Rich or Lie Trying by Symeon Brown

34. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

35. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

36. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

37. Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

38. None of This Rocks by Joe Trohman

39. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

40. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

41. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

42. Near the Bone by Christina Henry

43. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

44. The Lonely City by Olivia Laing

45. Slewfoot by Brom

46. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

47. Uprooted by Naomi Novik

48. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

49. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

50. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

51. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

i’ve also just started Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer so we’ll see if i finish it before the new year !

i’d love to hear about the books you read this year or talk about some of the ones on my list!!! i’ve had so much fun making new mutuals and whatnot this year and i hope you all have a great year of reading in 2024! <33

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ALCHEMY OF SOULS // KDRAMA DİZİ YORUMU

UYARI : Yazılar genel olarak spoiler içerebilir. İçermeyedebilir.

İmdb puanı : 8,8 Benim Puanım: 9

Drama: Alchemy of Souls (English title) / Return (literal title)

Hangul: 환혼

Director: Park Joon-Hwa

Writer: Hong Jung-Eun, Hong Mi-Ran

Date: 2022

Language: Korean

Country: South Korea

Cast: Lee Jae-Wook, Jung So-Min, Minhyun, Yu Jun-Sang, Yoo In-Soo, Hong Seo-Hui, Shin Seung-Ho, Lim Chul-Soo, Ko Yoon-Jung

Bu dizi konusu ve kalitesi açısından diğer dizilerden sıyrılıp ön plana çıkmayı başarıyor. Öncelikle dizide mantıksızlıklar ya da yaptım olduculuk yoktu. Hotel Del Luna yazarlarından yine ortak bir çalışma olarak karşımıza çıkan bu dizide aynı mantık ile hikaye oluşturulmuş. Bir dünya yaratılmış, o dünyanın kuralları ve mekaniği belirlenmiş. Hikaye örgüsü bu mekaniğin üzerinde yürütülmüş. Bu nedenle de kendi mantığını kendi yaratıyor.

Dizi iki kısım olarak yayınlandı. İki kısmın birbirinden en büyük farkı ise başrol kadın oyuncu. Cesur bir karar verip dizinin yarısında başrol değiştirmek herkesin alabileceği bir risk değil. Çok net söyleyebilirim; altında da kalkılmış. Fantastik bir dünyada kurgusal bir ülkede geçen dizi bizi bekliyor. Farklı yeteneklere sahip ailelerin hakim olduğu, yuvarlak masa şövalyeleri gibi bir konsey tarafından yönetilen bir şehir ile diziye giriş yapıyoruz. Bu dünya da büyü ve ruhlar alemi sıradan bir şey. Herkesin geldiği aileye göre büyü yetenekleri, içinde uyanmış ya da uyanmayı bekleyen bir ruh taşı var.

Her güzel şey gibi bununda olumsuz bir tarafı var. Dizinin kötü adam kontenjanlarının amacı da bu ruh taşlarını kullanarak beden değiştirmek. Yani 80 yaşındaki birinin ruhunu 25 yaşındaki birinin bedenine koyarak, ikinci bir hayat yaşamasını sağlıyorlar. Bu şekilde de mürit topluyorlar. Kralın sağ kolu ve baş kötü adamımız Jin Mu (Jo Jae-Yun) aynı zamanda değişik büyülü objelerin korunması ve saklanması görevini üstlenmiş olan büyük bir ailenin soyundan geliyor.

Diziyi anlatmaya neden kötü adamdan başladığımı bilmiyorum. Ama bağlayacağım. Ruh değişiminin ağır bedeller ile geldiğini de söylemeliyim. Büyük bir büyücü olan babası, ruh değiştirme konusunda yaşadıkları sonrasında doğan oğlu Jang Uk(Lee Jae-Wook)’un bütün büyü gücünü bebekken mühürler. Ve ülkeden ayrılır. Zamanında kralın sağ kolu olan bu adam, hatırı sayılır nüfusunu kullanarak diğer bütün büyük büyücülerin ve ailelerinin de bu mührü kırmayacaklarından emin olur. Aradan uzun yıllar geçer. 4 ailenin çocukları birlikte büyürler. Jang Uk büyü gücü olmadığı için hep arka plandadır. Hiç kimse onun bu mührü kırmasına yardım etmeye cesaret edememiştir. Yıllarca büyü öğretmenleri tarafından eğitim verilmesi reddedilmiştir. Mührünü kırabilecek kadar güçlenmesine yardımcı olacak bir hoca aramaktadır.

Soğuk kanlı bir katil olan ruh değiştirici Naksu (Ko Yoon-Jung), büyük ailelerden biri olan Songrim’in lideri Park Jin(Yu Jun-Sang) ile girdiği dövüş sonrasında ölümcül bir yara alır. Naksu, inanılmaz bir güce sahip bütün ülkede korkulan bir isimdir. Ruh değiştirici olduğu bilinen bu tehlikeli kız aldığı yara sonrasısı kayıplara karışır. Tam ölmek üzereyken ruhunu başka bir vücuda aktarır. Aktardığı vücut kör bir köylü kızı olan Mu-Deok(Jung So-Min)’tur. Naksu bütün büyü gücünü kaybetmiş olarak Mu-Deok’un bedenine hapsolur.

Bir şekilde yolları kesişen Jang Uk ve Mu Deok garip bir ikili olurlar. Jang Uk, Mu-Deok’un öğretmeni olmasını ister. Mu-Deok ise Jang Uk’un nüfusunu kullanarak kılıcını geri almak ister. Jang Uk, onun Naksu olduğunu fark ettiği için, eğer gücünü geri kazanırsa mührünü kırabilecek güce sahip olduğunu bilmektedir. Yalnız kaldıklarında Mu-Deok usta, Jang Uk çıraktır. Etraflarında birileri varken ise, Jang Uk efendi, Mu-Deok hizmetçisidir.

Bu şekilde hikaye başlar. Dizide salya akıtacak kadar abartılı bir romantizm, süründürecek kadar dram yoktu. İzleyici olarak çok güzel bir lüks olduğunu söyleyebilirim. İzlediğiniz şeyden keyif alıyorsunuz ve akıp gidiyor. Ama sizi sömürmüyor. Jung So-Min tek kelime ile yıkmış geçmiş. Üç farklı karakteri, şiveyi pürüzsüzce bir araya getirmişti. Daha önce onu ilk kez “Because this is my first life” dizisinde izlemiştim. O dizide de dikkat çekiciydi ama akılda kalıcı olduğunu söyleyemem. Lee Jae-Wook ise bence bu dizi ile patlamasını yapmış olabilir. Onu ilk “Do do sol sol la la sol” gibi başarısız bir dizide izlediğim için ön yargılarım vardı. Bütün önyargılarımı yıktı geçti. Songrim ailesinin varisi Park Dang-Gu rolündeki Yoo In-Soo dizide en şaşırdığım isim oldu. All of us are dead dizisinde ölmek bilmeyen akıllı bir zombi vardı. Sinirden saçımızı başımızı yolmuştuk. Bitmek tükenmek bilmeyen enerjisi ile kendisinden nefret ettirmişti. Heh işte onu almışlar, şeker gibi, bal gibi bir karaktere koymuşlar. Birkaç bölüm sonra onun o olduğunu anladım. Benim için gerçekten şok ediciydi. Ve inanılmaz takdir ettim.

İkinci kısımda ise Jung So-Min dizide bu kadar tutmuş ve patlama yaratmışken yerine orijinal Naksu karakterini canlandıran Ko Yoon-Jung diziye giriyor. Bu konu açıklandığı zaman herkes gibi benim de tepkim olumsuzdu. Oyuncunun değiştirilmesi bana son derece gereksiz ve saçma geldi. Dizinin tam ortasında karakterlere bu kadar alışmışken hiç olacak şey değil diye düşündüm. Çok büyük yanılmışım. Hatta itiraf ediyorum, Jung So-Min’un Lee Jae-Wook’dan büyük olmasının beni rahatsız ettiğini fark ettim. Ko Yoon-Jung ile yaşı yaşına uygun bir partner olarak çok daha tatlı olmuşlardı. Yeni ikilinin kimyasını görünce bir önceki çift çok çabuk ikinci plana atıldı.  Onun yanı sıra Ko Yoon-Jung’un oyunculuğu takdir edilesiydi. Esas kız rolünü kaldırdı kucakladı götürdü maşallah. Aldığı sorumluluğun bilincindeydi.

Dizinin genel havası; ilk kısımda canlı renk paletleri, eğlenceli bir atmosfer ve küçük dertler varken ikinci kısmında karanlık bir atmosfer, depresif bir hava ve daha hayati mevzular dönmeye başladı. Oyuncular da bu değişimleri çok başarılı bir şekilde sırtlandılar. Birinci kısımda da ikinci kısımda da dizinin mizah yönünü sırtlanan isim prens Go Won rolü ile Shin Seung-Ho oldu. Dizinin joker elamanı gibiydi. Tatlı sert halleri, ciddi görünen şapşallıkları diziye süper eğlence katıyordu. Dizi genel olarak bütün beklentileri karşılıyordu. Ben ekran başından oldukça tatmin olarak ayrıldım. Bütün oyuncular son derece profesyoneldi. Çekimler pürüzsüzdü. Mekanlar şahaneydi. Enerjileri, konu dinamiği ile aldı yürüdüler.

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June Reading Log

The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton

The Fishermen and the Dragon by Kirk Wallace Johnson

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

The Last Thing He Told me By Laura Dave

Kaikeyi by Vaishavi Patel

How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun

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1, 4, 15 and 16 !!

Thank you!!!

1. do u prefer a standalone or a series?

Standalone by all means. I rarely ever read series, for some reason it's really hard for me to follow through

4. a book which had a tv adaption that was better than the book itself?

I don't know how controversial this is but Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation? I tried the book twice but it wasn't for me.

15. an underrated book?

I'm looking at average ratings and The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun (that i just read the other day) and A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar are way at the bottom with few readers. I really enjoyed both

16. the book that made u fall in love with reading?

Confessions of a Mask by MIshima. Omg you can see the aftermath

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'The Chef's Nail,’ by Yun Ko-eun (#윤고은), book review, 책 리뷰

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storygraph september wrap up!

Hilma af Klint - Julia Voss 3.75⭐️

Extremely comprehensive and well researched expanded english tanslation of Julia Voss's biography on Hilma af Klint. I do wish she had included some reflection on or acknowledgements of the origins of af Klints spiritualism instead of just mentioning it "drawing from Hindu or Indian practices". But all in all it was a fascinating account of a very dedicated woman's life.

Sauhund - Lion Christ 3.75⭐️

A german book about a true charastrophe of a young gay man in 1970-80s Munich. It's somehow sad, heartwarming and funny all at once? A huge part of the enjoyment while reading came from the book being written in dialect. It's not super thick dialect but enough for color and since I grew up with a dialect similar to bavarian it felt like I was listening to someone from my birthplace tell me a story. The one flaw this book has for me is that the actual character growth montage moment is skipped in favor of showing the after which undermined a lot of the build up the previous 3/4 of the book spent so much time on. It still manages to end impactful though and was a weirdly satisfying and heartachey read.

The Chaos Walking Trilogy - Patrick Ness

The Knife of Never Letting Go 4.5⭐️

The Ask and the Answer 5⭐️

Monsters of Men 4.75⭐️

If you watched the movie with Tom Holland you should immediately forget it entirely because that movie is stupid and bad, does these magnificent books a huge disservice and go read The Knife of Never Letting Go instead!!! These books go crazy, I'm kicking my own ass about not picking them up earlier! A friend recommended them to me and they were SO RIGHT TO!!! First of all, Todd and Viola have such a totally normal relationship with each other, I ate it all up. Their relationship is the center of the books for a reason. And then the books pull absolutely zero punches about privacy, masculinity and war! I was biting my nails and yelling at my friend via text the entire time, I felt So Many Emotions!!

Sprache und Sein - Kübra Gümüşay 5⭐️

Quick read on the relationship between language and the society we are building with the way we talk and how we treat it. Compassionate.

Moths: A Natural History of Our Planet's Moth Life - Rachel Warren Chadd, Andrei Sourakov 5⭐️

MOTHS! I love them! This book was an amazing introduction and overview over moth lives, their territories and their biology! So many great pictures and really accessible to non-natural-science people as well!

Das Gewicht des Ganzen - Sven Heuchert

A german nature writing book about grief. I was really happy to have finished it so quickly because despite being written stylistically well I simply did not understand what anyone gets from this type of book. This was just deeply not my genre or type of story. (Also the author made a weird focalization decision in my opinion by having main character A show up as 3rd person narrator but main character B got a 3rd person narration as WELL as a 1st person narration? Bewildering and no help for the story to be honest.)

The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-Eun 3⭐️

A short satirical novel about Ko Yona who is employee at a disaster travel agency, goes on a business trip to a sinkhole to evaluate the package the agency offers and uncovers a conspiracy. The set up dragged a bit for my tastes but the book made its point and even gave me that feeling of impending doom.

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Recent Reads

1. The Disaster Tourist: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

An interesting and thought provoking plot that introduced and explored a range of perspectives on what, I hope, is the no-longer-shadowy world of disaster tourism. I was impressed with the simplicity and ease with which the protagonist and reader were quickly immersed in vividly precarious world. It was both strange and disturbingly real. It was somewhat predictable, but there were a number of well developed characters considering the length of the story, and though I’m not normally a fan of ambiguity, it made a pleasant change to confront a protagonist whose fate/motivations/character are never explicitly revealed or judged. The reader is left to draw their own conclusions, to evaluate their own opinions.

2. Redhead by the Side of the Road: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A slow one, but poignant and, for me, definitely one that resonated personally. A powerful, bittersweet, but ultimately hopeful ending, which honestly... I needed. The characters made the novel, and though I don’t think this book is for everyone, I found warmth and humour and understanding in Tyler’s words that make me want to read more of her work.

3. Things we Say in the Dark: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A really fun seasonal read with a unique and compelling and clever structure. I genuinely can’t choose a favourite story/section; I found the collection to be very cohesive and consistently strong. Logan is a skilled writer easily able to inspire fear, dread, anxiety, disgust, and a host of other heart-pounding sensations. I chose to rate it as I did purely because I felt the tropes and tone were too familiar, though I suspect this has more to do with me becoming slightly desensitised and needing to increase the diversity of my reading choices - or at least switch more frequently between genres. That being said, I really want to read more of Logan’s books!

4. The Death of Vivek Oji: ⭐️⭐️

Struggling to articulate exactly why, but this just... didn’t sit well with me. There was some wonderful explorations of themes such as loyalty, honesty, identity, and family, but it was heavy. Bleak. I understand that stories like this are important, necessary, and that we cannot always have happy or even hopeful endings, but I’ve read too many similar tragedies. There was no payoff for the emotional investment, and it’s difficult to invest in the first place when you know the fate of the protagonist from the beginning, and the protagonist seems... content with that fate? Maybe I just read this at the wrong time. (Pro tip: don’t read sad books when you’re sad!)

5. Ghosted: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Some wonderful character development throughout, and definitely made a significant emotional impact. I do feel that the story drew on slightly longer than necessary, but the reader was kept guessing and I was happy enough to follow the clues and reflect on the myriad relationships and characters offered.

6. White Ivy: ⭐️⭐️

I was disappointed by this book, which had such a promising premise, and started so strongly! Yang is, no doubt, a skilled writer, but it was challenging to persist with a story in which none of the characters seemed to have any notable, let alone likeable, traits. The pacing felt off, and I found myself wanting to skim through most of the book whilst other significant moments seemed to be passed over without making the impact they could have. Though it wasn’t a bad read, it didn’t feel like anything new or remarkable.

7. Earthlings: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ok, so this book is definitely not for everyone, and anyone picking it up expecting another Convenience Store Woman is... in for a shock™️! Please research content/trigger warnings before reading! Heartbreaking and heartwarming and disturbing and, yes, gross, this will satisfy your need for something strange. It was a good palette cleanser (or warper) after some underwhelming and sluggish recent reads, and left me with a not-unpleasant out of body sensation wondering wtf I’d just read. Simply put, this was my jam.

8. Our Wives Under the Sea: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

First, a very unrelated note: I read and finished this in the course on one stormy, muggy night which definitely set The Mood™️. I’m not quite sure how to discuss this book. Armfield has captured the sea itself: something vast and unfathomable, changeable, consuming, incomprehensible, and primordial. Dreamy and viscerally, elementally haunting, Our Wives is surreal, horror adjacent, but hits in a very tangible way. I personally loved the style, and the dual perspective and relatively short chapters made what could have been a slow read a very easy one. Through a fantastical lens, Armfield invites us to explore ideas about relationships, communication, trauma, and grief, loss, and reality. A lot is up for interpretation, and I think you could find something new in this book with every re-read.

9. Becoming My Sister: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Okay, so on the scale of ‘normal’ to ‘introduced to V. C. Andrews at a wildly inappropriate age by a mother who clearly had no memory of the book she’d just given her daughter, and no way to anticipate the oncoming obsession’, it’s pretty clear where I fall. Personally I’ve never been disappointed by an Andrews book, and this one was no exception. The writing is witty and thrilling and subtly eerie, and Andrews is absolutely fantastic at drawing the reader into the grip of twisted, claustrophobic family dynamics. Her characters are lifelike, haunted and haunting. She has a singular understanding of the pain and beauty of girlhood, womanhood, and coming of age. I would almost describe this as a ‘guilty pleasure’ read but honestly I’m not sorry. No shame.

10. Ghosts: ⭐️⭐️

Such a promising premise, and so many elements I can usually connect with, but... I think this is just a story I’m tired of reading. It was vague/disconnected and judgemental in a way that reduced the impact of the book overall, at least for me. There was little to humanise or identify in the protagonist (or indeed most of the characters), and I felt the most interesting aspects of the book were not given the focus they deserved, both of which meant key emotional moments fell flat for me. I think for the right person, at the right time, this is a beautiful and moving story; that person just wasn’t me.

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Yun Ko-eun - The Disaster Tourist

Yun Ko-eun – The Disaster Tourist

Yun Ko-eun – The Disaster Tourist Yona Ko arbeitet bereits seit vielen Jahren als Agentin in einer Reiseagentur, die Touren zu Katastrophenorten anbietet. Dort, wo die Natur Chaos angerichtet hat, Vulkane ausgebrochen sind, Tsunamis ganze Länder zerstört haben oder Erdbeben alles dem Erdboden niedermachten, wollen moderne Koreaner ihre Sensationslust stillen. Als sie sich über die sexuelle…