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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
fast-paced
A raw, very real portrait of the therapy experience with the added factor of being through a Korean lens instead of the American one I'm more used to. It was an interesting read, and while I would've loved some more depth to the sessions I can understand why the author chose to keep some things private (as well as cut down on content for the sake of the book not being utterly massive). I really appreciated the way this book portrayed therapy (and the healing process) as nonlinear, with its own ups and downs, rather than the author ever reaching a final point where she was "cured".
i loved the title, but the book didn't do much for me. it was incomplete and redundant, and the therapist was giving useless insights imo, the kind of feel good crap we can read in any half-assed self-help book. also the author's musings/ self reflection after the therapy sessions were not well written/ well translated because they were so short and to the point that there was absolutely nothing concrete being discussed.
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
reflective
medium-paced
slow-paced
This book didn’t give me what I wanted from it if I’m entirely honest. I do remember feeling that the therapist had some bias opinions and just overall didn’t feel a connection between the two characters.
3.5⭐ I liked that the book gave me a lot of insight into myself
This book, therefore, ends not with answers but with a wish. I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don't hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time.
Some day, I will.
reflective
slow-paced