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The White Book

Han Kang

3.9 AVERAGE

dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

 Rating: 3.88 leaves out of 5
-Characters: 3/5
-Cover: 5/5
-Story: 3/5
-Writing: 5/5
Genre: Contemporary, Korean Lit., LitFic., Poetry
-Contemporary: 5/5
-Korean Lit.: 5/5
-LitFic: 3/5
-Poetry: 2/5
Type: Audiobook
Worth?: I can't answer that honestly.

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I am not the biggest fan of poetry. I picked up this book because it hit a couple prompts for a couple reading challenges.

I think poetry, in order to be really good, has to hold that hit for most of the time you are reading it. This did have times when my chest tightened and tears threatened to form. The story told through these poems is heartbreaking. Like stacked cotton, feathers, and clouds you start to feel the heaviness.

I will leave this off with a quote from this book that struck me and thinking about it now has me tearing up.

“This life needed only one of us to live. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now.
My life means yours is impossible.
Only in the gap between darkness and light, only in that blue-tinged breach, do we manage to make out each other’s faces.”
 

A touching collection of poetic entries and thoughts.

Öncelikle yazarla tanışma kitabım. Bence doğru kitap bu değil.

Kitap yarım saatte okunabilecek türden kısacık metin parçalarından oluşuyor. Yazar kendisiyle başlıyor anlatmaya, sonra kendisi doğmadan yıllar önce doğduğu gibi ölen ablasını anlatıyor. Eğer ablası yaşasaydı nasıl bir kadın olurduyu okuyoruz ve yazar bunu kesitler şeklinde, karakteri uzaktan veya bir pencereden seyrediyormuşuz gibi sunuyor. Ve elbette kitabı beyaz rengi ele geçirmiş. Kar, süt, pirinç, şeker, beyaz bir köpek gibi nesne ve canlılar aracılığıyla beyaz rengin edebiyatı yapılıyor diyebiliriz. Az kelimeyle çok fazla şey hissettirmesi ve kadın perspektifi beni etkiledi. Yine de çoğunluğa hitap eden bir kitap olduğunu düşünmüyorum. Belki yazarın diğer kitapları okunduktan sonra sıra bu kitaba gelebilir.

En çok 'Çocuk Geliyor' kitabını merak ediyorum, sırada o var.

This is hard to describe tbh but i am kinda like this book. Simple yet meaningful.

This book is the description about white things with loss and loneliness btw.
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

quiet, intense, moving