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A review by bibliorey
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
5.0
i picked this book out of a whim after being reminded of its existence in my tbr after seeing an instagram story of a good friend of mine who are also currently reading it and i was glad to know that it's quite short to consume and so without any hesitation, i started it on my train ride journey to campus this evening and indeed it was a short read. a perfect one i might add as i slowly am being consumed by the evil that is a reading slump (slowly trying to break it right now though hence the decision to pick up this one!)
i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki resonated with me on so many levels and i pretty much highlighted the whole entire book by the end of it. you know that one meme where the person is highlighting literally 99.9% of their textbook page? yes, that was me with i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki. as i'm struggling with my own depression and anxiety that are relentlessly being triggered by the most minute issues i am dealing with in my life at the moment, this book came at the perfect time for me as baek sehee's conversation with her psychiatrist not only felt like it was just for her, but for the readers as well and i cannot thank the author enough for sharing with us the contents of her therapy sessions with her take outs from it at the end.
this book is MY THERAPY and it's definitely a book that i would come back to whenever i'm in need of a spark of motivation to live on with my life on this dull and cruel world. it's short but it's really special and filled with meaningful lessons and reflections that will retrospectively transport you into analysing yourselves as a whole and what you could do at the end of the day to be a better you and not just for the society, but for you yourself too. it's important to always remind oneself that your feelings and your pain and whatever you are feeling or going through in the moment really are valid to the society and to you. yes, someone will always have it worse than you. but that doesn't mean you need to shut yourself up because your problems "don't matter". it does.
it definitely got me thinking of my own struggles at the moment and in some ways gave me alternatives on how to deal with my problems which as i said before, i resonated with the author's problems very much as i am reading through the book. like i said, it's like therapy almost and i am genuinely grateful for this book's existence. it has also given me insights on medications to handle my mental health issues which i have been afraid of for years after my own diagnosis and how i am actually considering giving in to the possibility of it now to help me conquer my mental health issues as well as therapy to help me better understand myself and my problems and how i could be a much better me after all that had ensued.
of course, i would highly recommend this masterpiece to almost anyone and everyone. i think you could find bits of yourselves in baek sehee and use her psychiatrist take on these problems to somewhat help you with your own as it somewhat did mine. then again, not all of us suffer from the same problems so do take everything in with a grain of salt. it will help you either way.
5 shining stars and perhaps more is what this very book deserves
i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki resonated with me on so many levels and i pretty much highlighted the whole entire book by the end of it. you know that one meme where the person is highlighting literally 99.9% of their textbook page? yes, that was me with i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki. as i'm struggling with my own depression and anxiety that are relentlessly being triggered by the most minute issues i am dealing with in my life at the moment, this book came at the perfect time for me as baek sehee's conversation with her psychiatrist not only felt like it was just for her, but for the readers as well and i cannot thank the author enough for sharing with us the contents of her therapy sessions with her take outs from it at the end.
this book is MY THERAPY and it's definitely a book that i would come back to whenever i'm in need of a spark of motivation to live on with my life on this dull and cruel world. it's short but it's really special and filled with meaningful lessons and reflections that will retrospectively transport you into analysing yourselves as a whole and what you could do at the end of the day to be a better you and not just for the society, but for you yourself too. it's important to always remind oneself that your feelings and your pain and whatever you are feeling or going through in the moment really are valid to the society and to you. yes, someone will always have it worse than you. but that doesn't mean you need to shut yourself up because your problems "don't matter". it does.
it definitely got me thinking of my own struggles at the moment and in some ways gave me alternatives on how to deal with my problems which as i said before, i resonated with the author's problems very much as i am reading through the book. like i said, it's like therapy almost and i am genuinely grateful for this book's existence. it has also given me insights on medications to handle my mental health issues which i have been afraid of for years after my own diagnosis and how i am actually considering giving in to the possibility of it now to help me conquer my mental health issues as well as therapy to help me better understand myself and my problems and how i could be a much better me after all that had ensued.
of course, i would highly recommend this masterpiece to almost anyone and everyone. i think you could find bits of yourselves in baek sehee and use her psychiatrist take on these problems to somewhat help you with your own as it somewhat did mine. then again, not all of us suffer from the same problems so do take everything in with a grain of salt. it will help you either way.
5 shining stars and perhaps more is what this very book deserves