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My Brilliant Life
by Kim Ae-ran
I read this in one sitting as I cannot put it down. All the characters were so real to me, it seems I really fell in love with this book.
This story explores family bonds interweaving with past and present while finding bliss and peace of mind even in difficult times.
Family drama, friendship, an incurable disease and basically just life. It's actually pretty mundane, relatable and pretty mediocre as I read something similar like "Almond" but I just love this kind of story it makes my heart flutter and warm from the inside.
I think we could learn a lot from Areum perspectives where he celebrates the ordinary moments in life. Taking simplest thing in life as joy and happiness. Tragically melancholy.
I adore how Ae Ran putting this whole book together, the prologue, the ending, even the dragging emails with Seoha, the ordinary conversations with Grandpa Jang, the interview, the mundane routines of their life at the hospital and home, I adore it all. Her writing were subtle and devastatingly stunning.
Tidbits of "My Brilliant Life",
"Progeria is a fatal, rare disease that makes children age prematurely."
"I had heard about someone who learned Japanese by watching anime; he apparently spoke like an old man and a yakuza and a high school girl, all mixed together. That had made me laugh."
"Old age was something we could never cure; if we could, the world would be free of death."
"I liked everything composed of paper and print no matter the genre or thickness, from illustrated guides to insect, plant and marine life to collections of poetry that stomped all over my heart to social science tomes that slapped my mind awake."
This story explores family bonds interweaving with past and present while finding bliss and peace of mind even in difficult times.
Family drama, friendship, an incurable disease and basically just life. It's actually pretty mundane, relatable and pretty mediocre as I read something similar like "Almond" but I just love this kind of story it makes my heart flutter and warm from the inside.
I think we could learn a lot from Areum perspectives where he celebrates the ordinary moments in life. Taking simplest thing in life as joy and happiness. Tragically melancholy.
I adore how Ae Ran putting this whole book together, the prologue, the ending, even the dragging emails with Seoha, the ordinary conversations with Grandpa Jang, the interview, the mundane routines of their life at the hospital and home, I adore it all. Her writing were subtle and devastatingly stunning.
Tidbits of "My Brilliant Life",
"Progeria is a fatal, rare disease that makes children age prematurely."
"I had heard about someone who learned Japanese by watching anime; he apparently spoke like an old man and a yakuza and a high school girl, all mixed together. That had made me laugh."
"Old age was something we could never cure; if we could, the world would be free of death."
"I liked everything composed of paper and print no matter the genre or thickness, from illustrated guides to insect, plant and marine life to collections of poetry that stomped all over my heart to social science tomes that slapped my mind awake."