Jan 27, 2025
“I’m fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”
l Han Kang, Human Acts l ph: Michael Shainblum
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“I’m fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”
l Han Kang, Human Acts l ph: Michael Shainblum
Human Acts, Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)
Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't even realized was there.
Han Kang, Human Acts
#100DaysofProductivity — Day 10
i recently got a new reading chair and all my work has been taking place here. i used to read on my bed or the couch, but i moved to the window to soak up the sunlight bc it’s probably the best spot in the entire apartment at the moment
most of my work has consisted on reading and note taking, so all i can offer is a very strategically placed matcha and my current (re)read: human acts by han kang !
books i’ve finished this week ✅
the liberators by e j koh
dance dance revolution by cathy park hong
time is a mother by ocean vuong
Here are my top reads of 2025!
The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie (an excellent rec from the one and only @inkovert)
Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Tangled Wires by D. M. Foyle (our very own @foyle-writes-things!)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
The Iliad by Homer (the Emily Wilson translation)
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Human Acts by Han Kang
"I was nothing but the sum of those parts. The lump of rotting meat from which they oozed was the only me there was."
- Han Kang | Human Acts
"After you died, I couldn't hold a funeral" - Human Acts, Han Kang
how I longed to extend my trembling fingers to the outer edges of her heart
Han Kang, Human acts
