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Episode 5: Book Review and Cozy Asian Lit
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Episode 5: Book Review and Cozy Asian Lit

Let's talk about "Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop" by Hwang Bo-Reum.
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Welcome to Episode Five! Friends, readers and listeners…we MUST discuss this wonderful book. “Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop is my favourite book of 2024. Here are two of the quotes I discussed in the podcast:

"Reading makes you see with clearer eyes and understand the world better. When you do that , you become stronger - the feeling you associate with success. But at the same time with pain. Within the pages, there's much suffering, beyond that we've gone through in our finite experience of life. You'll read about suffering you didn't know existed. Having experienced their pain through words, it becomes a lot harder to focus on pursuing individual happiness and success. Reading makes you deviate further from the textbook definition of success because books don't make us go ahead of or above anyone else; they guide us to stand alongside others.
We become more compassionate. To read is to see things from someone else's perspective, and that naturally leads you to stop and look out for other people, rather than chase after success in the rat race. If more people read, I think the world would become a better place
" - Hwang Bo-Reum

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day" - Hwang Bo-reum

Here are the three other book recommendations I listed at the end of the episode:

1) Before the Coffee Gets Cold

2) Convenience Store Woman

3) The Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Thank you for listening!

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