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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
Corto pero contundente. Ni le sobra ni le falta nada. Una crítica certera, total y absoluta al sistema de poder patriarcal que incluso hoy en día sigue asolando Corea del Sur, demás países del este asiático...y tantas decenas de países más a lo largo y a lo ancho del globo. En diversas escalas, quizás, de distintas formas...pero lo hacen. Lo hace. Está siempre presente.
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of my best vook i read didn't think it woul be hard like that but when your in it's easy.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Esta historia me hizo reflexionar sobre muchos aspectos de la maternidad y el "lugar" de las mujeres en la sociedad. Describe de manera tan sutil experiencias universales que vivimos por ser mujeres. Me hizo enojar, entristecerme e inspirarme.
Incluso en su condición psicologica se puede encontrar una respuesta: Kim Jiyoung somos todas.
Incluso en su condición psicologica se puede encontrar una respuesta: Kim Jiyoung somos todas.
4.5 stars
This was such a frustrating read-- in a good way.
Kim Jiyoung is a woman who became mentally unstable due to her past experiences and the book is an account of her life, how she faced misogyny from birth until motherhood. I felt extremely frustrated knowing that even though it is set in South Korea, women from all over the world still face these troubles, from subtle microaggressions to full-on harassment. I think the way the author handles feminism, misogyny in every area of a woman's life, extremely well considering they most likely went through the same thing. The language is simple yet effective and easy to digest. And the ending was just painstakingly spectacular. It made me realize that what women go through is not just the surface level that I'm aware of, but way more complex than that. This was a wonderfully eye-opening read and I'm glad that I picked it up.
This was such a frustrating read-- in a good way.
Kim Jiyoung is a woman who became mentally unstable due to her past experiences and the book is an account of her life, how she faced misogyny from birth until motherhood. I felt extremely frustrated knowing that even though it is set in South Korea, women from all over the world still face these troubles, from subtle microaggressions to full-on harassment. I think the way the author handles feminism, misogyny in every area of a woman's life, extremely well considering they most likely went through the same thing. The language is simple yet effective and easy to digest. And the ending was just painstakingly spectacular. It made me realize that what women go through is not just the surface level that I'm aware of, but way more complex than that. This was a wonderfully eye-opening read and I'm glad that I picked it up.
The footnotes at first are quite jarring, breaking form for the reader to imply, "I am not making this up". This suits the content; all the over-explaining and shrieking and manoeuvring that women have to do to be heard. Being taken at face value—being believed—is also a male privilege. Our author maintains this through and through, the rational and measured, almost clinical tone of her writing, the footnotes to published research and statistics—in what is supposed to be a work of fiction—and I would say, the final reveal at the end as well, all a rouse to be taken seriously.
At several points it comes across as a case study, again, we find out why towards the end. She chooses the form to be able to do justice to her content—she wants to describe, list, archive, with painstaking details, just how pervasive patriarchy is around us, even the kind we may have gotten used to. As if egging women to wake up to it.
The ending, however, does seem badly written to me, while the rest of the book has an explanation for its tone, however the ending could have been the author's moment to show finesse of her art, which for me, did not land at all.
At several points it comes across as a case study, again, we find out why towards the end. She chooses the form to be able to do justice to her content—she wants to describe, list, archive, with painstaking details, just how pervasive patriarchy is around us, even the kind we may have gotten used to. As if egging women to wake up to it.
The ending, however, does seem badly written to me, while the rest of the book has an explanation for its tone, however the ending could have been the author's moment to show finesse of her art, which for me, did not land at all.
informative
reflective
dark
emotional
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes