Tag: society

Quiet by Susan Cain

Sep 8, 2019

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Science

This isn’t so much a book for introverts to learn how to fit into society as an argument as to why society should change to accept introverts.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Feb 9, 2018

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sbhowell

in 5 Star Books, Asian Authors, Erotic, Gender, General Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mental Health, Surreal, Tear-Jerkers

Rating: 5/5, excellent Have you ever felt like a book was written specifically for you? That’s how I felt reading Han Kang’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Vegetarian. I’ve been a vegetarian on and off over the years, and depressed sometimes, and I feel a kinship with Yeong-hye, the protagonist of this book. Yeong-hye…