What. A. Month. Taking a few days off at the beginning of March, I had a bit more spare time on my hands to enjoy and relax. I read six books, four of which were sitting on my shelves for quite some time, one being a gift and one our current book club read. Additionally,
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Reading shorties: “Kim Jiyoung, born 1982” by Cho Nam-Joo
The girls got their own room, as per their mother’s plan. Mother had set money aside, without telling father, to furnish the girls’ room. She put two new sets of desks and chairs by the sunny window and a new closet and bookcase by one wall, and gave them each a new sleeping mat, blanket
Reading: “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang
Before my wife turned vegetarian, I’d always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way. To be frank, the first time I met her I wasn’t even attracted to her. Middling height; bobbed hair neither long nor short; jaundiced, sickly-looking skin; somewhat prominent cheekbones; her tied, sallow aspect told me all I needed