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Kim Hyun Sook,

Ryan Estrada

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: May 31, 2025

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Daming similarities ng Pinas at South Korea.

This book made you want to fight against the abuses and injustices.
It makes you want to be woke.

At first, I found it hard to read. (view spoiler) But we can't keep running forever no, and ~~ignoring~~ choosing to turn away from situations that suck, are too hard. At some point, eventually, we need to face these 'demons'.

I like how characters were described and developed. They're just stud Daming similarities ng Pinas at South Korea.

This book made you want to fight against the abuses and injustices.
It makes you want to be woke.

At first, I found it hard to read. (view spoiler) But we can't keep running forever no, and ~~ignoring~~ choosing to turn away from situations that suck, are too hard. At some point, eventually, we need to face these 'demons'.

I like how characters were described and developed. They're just students who wanted to learn. And they did. They learn a whole lot more outside of their textbooks.

(Reflection time: I try not to have as much regrets in life. But sometimes I think about my student life in UP. Yeah, nag-enjoy ako. Haha! But I hoped I also came out of it learning a whole lot more. If I wasn't excellent in the academics, I at least could have tried to learn more. Oh well. Past is past. There's no one right and one wrong side, sometimes. And there's also no one way of doing and fighting for things. But I think it'll be good for us to sit around and reflect what other people have done and fought for to get where we are now, to "enjoy" what we have now. It's one thing to read about it (which helps!), but it's another thing to keep that book open, tell people about it and actually change for the better. E ano naman ngayon kung nabasa mo yung mga "woke" books kung kupal ka pa rin? )

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Hyun Sook's classmate: I came here to learn! I want to get a degree and a good job. But I can't focus on my work if the campus fills with tear gas every time you and your friends want to play war.
Hyun Sook: If you think that's all we're doing here, you have a lot of waking up to do. I'm here to learn, same as you. I just want to learn more than what they want us to know.
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Hyun Sook: Funny how if you were reading his dystopian sci-fi novel with a minor subplot about fascists ruling Korea, you'd be taken to jail. So you gotta wonder. Do they ban books because they see dangerin their authors, or because they see themselves in their villains? ...more

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