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Have you read Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung (orig. 한밤의 시간표, 2023)?
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Currently reading Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
"...is this who I really am?" - Yoon Jongwoo, Strangers from Hell (2019)
[ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground// untitled sculpture, ceydajeevas on instagram// Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis// Strangers from Hell (2019), dir Lee Chang-hee// Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny// Monster (2004)// Hieu Minh Nguyen, Elegy for the First// Perfect Blue (1997), dir Satoshi Kon// Naoki Urasawa, Monster (1994-2001) ]
It is difficult, as children, to understand that some people simply do not have the capacity to love, or that the so-called affection such parents may exhibit later on in life is not real love or genuine interest, but rather a twisted expression of their own codependency.
Bora Chung, "Handkerchief" from Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories (translated by Anton Hur)
Spooky reads for the holiday season 🙀
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Books by Korean women:
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah
I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin
죽은 자의 꿈 by Bora Chung
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin
My staff picks! Sad Cypress and Midnight Timetable were two of my favorite reads from last year, Klute and Garp are stone cold classics