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A review by ccaitlinranae
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
3.0
2.5
“i often look for books that are like medicine, that fit my situation and my thoughts, and i read them over and over again until the pages are tattered, underlining everything, and still the book will have something to give me. books never tire of me. and in time they present a solution, quietly waiting until i am fully healed.”
^^^ wonderful quote describing what i wanted this book to be for me. read it all in one day and i found it incredibly disappointing. i see the promise, and i can see why did it so well but it just didn’t work for me. the psychiatrist was grating and best and i feel offered some strange and poor advice that made the entire book incredibly frustrating. i was really hopeful going into this book to read a nonfiction about persistent depression but this just wasn’t it for me. it’s sad because i relate to the main character in many, MANY ways and i really wanted to like this more, the entire final chapter is worth reading
“i often look for books that are like medicine, that fit my situation and my thoughts, and i read them over and over again until the pages are tattered, underlining everything, and still the book will have something to give me. books never tire of me. and in time they present a solution, quietly waiting until i am fully healed.”
^^^ wonderful quote describing what i wanted this book to be for me. read it all in one day and i found it incredibly disappointing. i see the promise, and i can see why did it so well but it just didn’t work for me. the psychiatrist was grating and best and i feel offered some strange and poor advice that made the entire book incredibly frustrating. i was really hopeful going into this book to read a nonfiction about persistent depression but this just wasn’t it for me. it’s sad because i relate to the main character in many, MANY ways and i really wanted to like this more, the entire final chapter is worth reading