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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Start date: February 1, 2025

Finish date: March 31, 2025

Discussion: Novels

Why we're reading this: 1st read: August 2023
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Oct 13, 2024 kim rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

"and yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. how could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game? etsuko had failed in this important way—she had not taught her children to hope, to believe in the perhaps-absurd possibility that they might win. pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not."

this is one of those times where i wish i could put the right words here how much i loved this book. pachinko is so hauntingly beautiful, and im pretty sure the ...more

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Jun 18, 2023 bruna rated it it was amazing

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oh boy. how do i emotionally and physically deal with the heavy, crushing feeling in my chest that was forcibly put on me during the last 100 pages of this book? how have i read over 500 pages of this and it still doesn't feel like its enough? sometimes reading about these characters' lives felt so real that now i dont know how to move on knowing that i will never get to read about sunja's happy ending. this is what life was for her, simply put. and i hate that it felt so real, because this real ...more

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