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Reading Anxious People by Fredrick Bakman put me in such a slump, I haven’t read anything in months. Sense and Sensibility, my secondary book has been in progress since last year and I haven’t read anything since then. That’s when I finally decided to join a book club and get a library card to read more books. It’s free, after all. One of the books which did not have a waitlist there was almond. I dove in blind before going to bed and I got hooked immediately.
Almond is a YA book about a Korean boy who suffers from a disease where his amygdalas in his brain (that he refers to as almonds) are so small and underdeveloped that he can’t feel any emotions. The book narrates in a very first person straightforward - matter of fact way as emotional things happen to him one by one. The book follows his life till he turns 18.
This book brings up questions of what it means to be “ordinary” and “normal”. Why should there be a “right” way to act and react and behave? This book also has themes of friendship and love. It’s thought provoking but a very easy read with super short chapters - making it a perfect pick to get out of a reading slump!
Almond is a YA book about a Korean boy who suffers from a disease where his amygdalas in his brain (that he refers to as almonds) are so small and underdeveloped that he can’t feel any emotions. The book narrates in a very first person straightforward - matter of fact way as emotional things happen to him one by one. The book follows his life till he turns 18.
This book brings up questions of what it means to be “ordinary” and “normal”. Why should there be a “right” way to act and react and behave? This book also has themes of friendship and love. It’s thought provoking but a very easy read with super short chapters - making it a perfect pick to get out of a reading slump!