"There could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game?"
#travelread
Reading these beautifully strange stories was a lovely way to close out my time in South Korea.
“Teacher, I want to fly, but the ground keeps pulling me down.”
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A woman's story as told through the eyes of her husband, then her brother-in-law, then her sister. For me this was a story about feminism through subversion.
"Whether human, animal or plant, she could not be called a “person,” but then she wasn‘t exactly some feral creature either— more like a mysterious being with qualities of both."
#travelread
"Ever since moving to North Korea, I‘d never felt truly alive; part of me had been walled off, silenced. After a while, I felt that that part of me had simply withered away like a limb that atrophies from lack of use."
#travelread
Returned from Spain and read another book set in Spain while attending a conference with a Spanish themed party 🇪🇸💃
#travelread
Enjoyed this Spanish thriller while visiting Barcelona! 🇪🇸
#travelread
"So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don‘t know how anybody carries even one."
#kindle #travelread
It was fun to read about Boston while in Boston, but this story did not transport me to 1908 and just felt lacking to me.
#travelread #primereading
