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IDK. it feels like every other basic unhinged straight white woman obsessing over a man book. it's not badly written but nothing is really sticking out to me so far. i basically hit a plateau the moment the "horror" (read: magical realism) started. let's try and finish this.

Five stories read so far - loved one (the titular one), one was very good, two were pretty decent, and utterly hated one. The big one, Patriotism, is next though.

resuming this. kind of obsessed now/loving it. love this for me.

Re-read of my favorite novel of 2022. Lol. I don't think this will be a 5 again, oops.

sorry, soft dnf, this book is really not what I'm in the mood for and rote descriptions of items I can find in catalogues. will resume later.

"No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive."

"An irresistible shift had put the past behind me. I had recoiled in a daze; all I could do was react weakly. But it was not I who was doing the shifting - on the contrary. For me everything had been agony."

For the girlies who know my LORE, going to keep track of all the bands referenced in this book so far. Abba, Blondie, The Clash, The Ramones, ELO.

I cannot believe I have to read this for my SAD GIRLS book club.

7 stories done with three to go, only 1 I would call a 5 star thus far, but this collection is MARVELOUS. Very unsettling and disturbing so far, and in very different ways. Let's see how it ends.

Four stories in and three have been five stars. This collection is MARVELOUS so far.

First five stories done. 1st story: 3, 2nd story: 3.5, 3rd story: 4, 4th story: 4.5, 5th story: 2.5. It's alright so far, four more stories to go.

Started this a few days ago actually, am basically going to read this in 50 page clumps as I focus on other books as the narrative itself isn't that engaging yet. But 100 pages in, it's starting to pick up a little more.

This is slaying so far.

god this is so boring

First novella done - some incredibly deep and beautiful passages as you would expect from Jungeun, but the long descriptions of shops and streets, spare parts, equipment and passageways were extremely tedious. 3 or 3.25 out of 5. Hope the 2nd is better.

I was loving this until page 87 when suddenly I got sick and now I can barely focus or read or do anything. Still loving it, but I'd probably be done since it's such a page turner if I wasn't sick. Mess.

"Now forget that you may become ill, for you are not ill now, and remember only that this virus in your blood makes people afraid of you. Any time someone is afraid of you, you can use it to your own advantage."

Part 1 done - very dark, disturbing, unsettling content, but the prose is experimental and cold/clinical. I can see why the average rating here is so low, this is not a book for most people.

There is not a chance in hell this is less than 5 stars by the end of it. What a book. What a DEBUT. This is just marvelous.

Loving this so far. Peter's backstory is literally perfection.

"Do you ever feel that sometimes, when something happens to you ... something deep inside you changes? You can't undo it, and you wonder whether this is the person you want to be. So you just stay, contemplating whether you like your new self until something else happens to you and you start the process all over again. Ever feel that way?"

I've finished the first three chapters/stories, I haven't really enjoyed any, but the third one was almost unbearable. If I DNFed books I would DNF this ASAP.

"Normally it's a good day if I successfully conduct myself out of bed." I feel that one big time, Harold.

"What can you offer to someone who's lost their purpose, their own sense of worth?" This fucking book.