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― Han Kang, The White Book.

[text ID: Learning to love life again is a long and complicated process.]

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Human Acts by Han Kang


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Sleet

There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everything passes. She bears this remembrance—the knowledge that everything she has clung to will fall away from her and vanish—through the streets where the sleet is falling, that is neither rain nor snow, neither ice nor water, that dampens her eyebrows and streams from her forehead whether she stands still or hurries on, closes her eyes or opens them.

Han Kang, The White Book

What do the ghosts of this city do,

these muffled early-morning hours?


© Han Kang, Fog

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Quick October Book Recommendations

I’m a busy bee this weekend, but I still wanted to put up a post today! Here’s a quick rundown of books I think are great to read in October. It’s a good mix of creepy and fun, so I think there’s something for everyone here!

1.The Vegetarian by Han Kang

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If you love psychological horror and aren’t averse to gore, The Vegetarianwill be a gourmet meal for you (ha!). Yeong-hye, an ordinary woman,…

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I realized that I hadn’t updated my blog in so long that I decided to add another post, this time a short introduction to Han Kang’s The Vegetarian in Korean. Check it out:

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