Violets | 
The only hard candy I have at the moment are several flavors of “Claerys old fashioned hard candy”. that I suck on sometimes for nausea. They aren‘t bad. The violet ones up above are appealing to me more right now. Eat the flowers 🌹. @Andrew65 #hardcandy #winterreadathondailychallenage @DieAReader
Her colorless face, staring out at the unbothered ginkgo trees and the cafés behind them, appears and disappears with the light.
San wears an expression of melancholy, perhaps, but also of loneliness.
It is an expression that is not hers alone. A young woman on an escalator, a young man silently walking from building to building with a résumé in hand, salarymen on the subway at dawn - the same expression appears and disappears from their faces.
so-soBeautifully written. A quiet story about San & her life moving from rural South Korea to Seoul. San feels lonely & alienated & fears hurting people so finds it hard to make friends. This melancholy is off-set by a gentle tone & precise writing, finding beauty in the minutiae of life. Excellent translation. But it moved too slowly for me. I prefer her later work which is tighter & more distilled.
So this looks good and possibly upsetting too 😳🤷🏻♀️
pickCharacter study of an isolated and repressed woman, there‘s a lot to unpack here.
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