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Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park

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4.0

This is something worth being included in educational syllabus.
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

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3.0

The winter in Sokcho is cold, detached and lonely. Where even food doesn't fill you up.

The story of a non-ambitious girl working in Sokcho meets a French Comic Book writer. What follows is exploration of Sokcho and internalized feelings. The good or the bad aspect of the book is that it always brushes above a subject.

It's like a passing cloud, you can see the attraction, the detachment, the resentment, the love, the thoughts and the behaviours of but you never really touch the matter. There is a social distancing between people and the story.

The pages feels layered with frost. Characters are formal with eachother and distant. Only a woven loneliness to connect them.

All I wonder, is this coldness is what the writer wanted us to feel. Is this how writer sees Sokcho. I will have to look at other materials to know.