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I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan
by Giaae Kwon
My library reading challenge has some obscure categories. This year one of the obscure categories is a book that features K-pop. My entire K-pop knowledge before reading this memoir is that BTS is a K-pop group.
I actually heard this author on Traci Thomas's podcast THE STACKS, and when she said she wrote a memoir about K-pop, I immediately put two and two together and knew how I was going to fulfill the K-pop challenge category.
This memoir is equal parts:
1. K-pop education: history (sounds like they took their guiding principles from Lou Pearlman and how he ran the first boy bands in the United States) and its pros and cons like misogyny
2. Korean culture (beauty standards, academic standards, family)
3. Personal memoir
4. Mental health advocacy
I didn't expect that I'd get so much in one book. My interest waned slightly when the author talked about her personal life because I felt she got so repetitive about certain aspects (like body shaming).
There are a lot of potential triggers in this one (body shaming, suicide).
I actually heard this author on Traci Thomas's podcast THE STACKS, and when she said she wrote a memoir about K-pop, I immediately put two and two together and knew how I was going to fulfill the K-pop challenge category.
This memoir is equal parts:
1. K-pop education: history (sounds like they took their guiding principles from Lou Pearlman and how he ran the first boy bands in the United States) and its pros and cons like misogyny
2. Korean culture (beauty standards, academic standards, family)
3. Personal memoir
4. Mental health advocacy
I didn't expect that I'd get so much in one book. My interest waned slightly when the author talked about her personal life because I felt she got so repetitive about certain aspects (like body shaming).
There are a lot of potential triggers in this one (body shaming, suicide).