i would like to do this someday........safe travels back!! :)

Omg

hmart tattoo

:O @itsbibs.bsky.social !!

i want what they’re having

my boss on slack this morning..........

kang manages to silence her in a way that made me long for her and her freedom, until the very last page </3

five stars, recommend❤️❤️

against society norms entirely. yonghye’s character arc is violent and repressive, and i finished the book feeling simultaneously very attached to her but also felt confusion and ambiguity about who she really is. it’s so interesting to me that the crux of this book is about her—yet

around this coupled with post-modern confucian ideals that i think are foundational to how korea’s culture functions today. what starts as a stance to become vegetarian transforms into a refusal to eat altogether and ultimately becomes a disillusioned obsession to become a “tree,” and revolt

i was surprised when i got to act ii and quickly realized that this aspect of vegetarianism in the story is an allegory of the patriarchy and anti-feminism that pervades itself in korean culture; and kang uses vegetarianism to help us understand the complexities

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

i picked this book up thinking that it would be about vegetarianism and it would, namely so, be the book that finally helps me be motivated enough to become vegetarian (i have tried many times before and haven't succeeded yet)

one of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

—bell hooks