“If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had. Don’t ask what was in their fridge or in their closet. The number of windows says it all. It says everything. If they had none, or maybe one or two, that’s all you need to know.”
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This book blew me away. I’d seen it all over the instagrams of bookshops in London (Daunt Books in particular promotes it like crazy) but even then I didn’t realise just how rich, nuanced, and self-analytical it would be.
Asako Yuzuki is raw and authentic in her depiction of female relationships, in a way that is so real, it’s piercing. From every angle she is able to analyze act of care, how it’s feminised, what it means to give and sacrifice, how that can result in self-negation — and how it ultimately affects all women from all backgrounds, shapes, and sizes.
And she *gets* food.
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by Lucia Berlin. I grew up poor and it was one of the few places in which I saw my experiences being reflected back to me with vulnerability rather than caricatures disproportionate with pity or disgust . It’s just a collection of mostly-true short stories, but her writing is so conversational that you could easily mistake yourself for being at the kitchen table across from her, listening. My greatest inspiration to pursue writing, if only to document. For sanity’s sake!
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Not a big reader but a massive Japanese Breakfast fan.
Really emotional but beautiful memoir about her relationship with her mum, intertwined with descriptions about yummy Korean food.
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How did we stop choosing for ourselves and just accept whatever comes our way?
Past Lives made me think about this.Was it fate, comfort, or just the right and wrong timing? At some point, we stop reaching and just let life happen!!! The movie lingers in that space between longing, acceptance, and what could have been…
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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it, to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once!” Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
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