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May/June Book: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee!!!
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⌚👈🤔 You are ahead of schedule 😋 just teasing you Helen, I know you are busy!💪 I note this time the story does not take place in the Western World. Eager to read it! 😊
Edit: May I ask a favor? Would it be possible to keep doing the discussions per chapter/part (just like for Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars) with that book too while finishing to approach the two other part of our current book? I know there aren't many people who decide to post their thoughts (yet) and discuss but I believe it was (and still is) a neat idea! And usually when a moderator create such thread there are more people involved thereafter.
I mean when we discuss about books we reassess our thoughts regarding what other members (including moderators) share. I feel it's pretty cool and just like someone said one day "we are a book club" so we should discuss book right? Warm regards! 😊
Edit: May I ask a favor? Would it be possible to keep doing the discussions per chapter/part (just like for Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars) with that book too while finishing to approach the two other part of our current book? I know there aren't many people who decide to post their thoughts (yet) and discuss but I believe it was (and still is) a neat idea! And usually when a moderator create such thread there are more people involved thereafter.
I mean when we discuss about books we reassess our thoughts regarding what other members (including moderators) share. I feel it's pretty cool and just like someone said one day "we are a book club" so we should discuss book right? Warm regards! 😊
I just read this book at the end of last year! I'm very excited to see it as an OSS pick! It was a truly amazing novel and I'm looking forward to discussions of it!
I’ve heard about the book...My mom read that last year too.It will be a quite exciting experiment to follow her steps...Can’t wait to start!
I only finished this book around 2 weeks ago and absolutely loved it! I can’t wait for the discussions 💚
Sounds interesting! Can't wait to start it!
I read this book last month and it was honestly one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking books I had read in quite awhile. Can’t wait for the discussions around it.
I just started the book yesterday!! I can’t wait to read this and to enjoy the discussion.
Was on my TBR pile for few months now, so time to read it !!
Yay!! I’ve been wanting to read this!!!
Looking forward to reading this and taking part in the discussions that follow! Happy reading everyone :)
Going to listen to this on audio! I'm very excited as it's rated good. And I work at the library in my town and it's always checked out.
Seems fascinating! I’m looking forward to reading it!
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Thank you OSS!
Thanks for this pick Team OSS, I'm glad to see I can reserve it from my library and hope it is accessible for many- happy reading all, look forward to the discussion threads :)
Where/how do we follow the discussion?
Hey Savanah! A section dedicated to this book will probably be created shortly by a moderator then discussions related to the book will be created by members (maybe you) in it :)
As for now being still in April the current book is Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.
For the "how?" it's simple you will click on the section (usually name of the book) displayed in the list of sections in the main page of OSS, then the threads will be displayed (note you the 4 threads with the last comments are visible in the main page). Whenever you are in the section you'll have the possibility to create a thread or to comment an existing thread just like what you did here. Note that whenever you post a comment in a thread you will automatically get notified whenever someone replied comment in it.
I hope that help! 😊
As for now being still in April the current book is Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.
For the "how?" it's simple you will click on the section (usually name of the book) displayed in the list of sections in the main page of OSS, then the threads will be displayed (note you the 4 threads with the last comments are visible in the main page). Whenever you are in the section you'll have the possibility to create a thread or to comment an existing thread just like what you did here. Note that whenever you post a comment in a thread you will automatically get notified whenever someone replied comment in it.
I hope that help! 😊
Can't wait to get started! My parents bring the parcel to the airport when I fly home on Saturday to see them :)
Iv just started this 📖👍 the opening line packs a punch 🤜 “History has failed us ,but no matter “ a very dickens inspired opening line......expecting great things from this one ☝️ & mine has a beautiful cover
It's free on Amazon unlimited at the minute, too - and if you do some hunting around you can often get free trials of the service, or a couple of months for 99p!
Thanks for getting this choice out so quickly! I checked it out from my local library. It's a short loan and a big book so hoping I can get through it before I have to return it or am able to renew my check-out if I'm not!
Incredibly intrigued! Looking forward to picking up this book.
I havn't heard about this book before, but I'm shure I will like it. My main objective of joining this comunity was learning about books I have never heard about and to be able to davate about it, I'm shure this will be a great start (don't mind me if I write something wrong, I'm not an english-talking girl and I young :D )
It's seem's I most have a short travel to Japan in 1900 with this book ... I hope to see a good and happy end in it
The book ends just as life does: some people are happy, some are content, some are seriously unhappy, some just keep trudging on.
Dear Team OSS:Thank you very, very, very much for selecting "Pachinko" written by Min Jin Lee for our May/June book and for your very enthusiastic writing about the novel! I feel that Min Jin Lee is outstanding sharing an introduction to herself and her novel for Our Shared Shelf members! I feel very fortunate to have picked up the novel! My copy of the novel has a different dazzling cover! The cover has beads and medallions and a 'NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST' sticker on it! I am looking forward to reading the novel very soon! I am currently enjoying reading the novel "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" written by Stephen Chbosky! Recently I truly loved watching the film "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" starring our very talented and very inspiring Emma Watson!
Forever gratefully,
Billy
Portland, Maine USA
My book came in yesterday. I am very excited to get started. :)
By chance I picked this book up at the airport during my travels, and I am hooked. I rarely see Korean American novelists and even more rarely see the books make it as National Book Award finalists. So pleased! How fortuitous that it is the book selected as the May/June book for Our Shared Shelf.
I finally got a copy of this and started reading. So far I like it but I've only read 10%.
I hope you enjoyed as much as I did! It gave a wonderful historical overview of a part of the world about which I was completely ignorant.
I just joined and I’ve had this book on my kobo for ages so will read today! I’ll also read the July/August one when it’s announced
What a great book. I was in aw all the time. I put my little review in the other section with reviews op Pachinko.
Does anyone know what the July/August book is?
Ok! I will wait patiently even thought I am not a patient person :)
Meelie I see some post saying the July/Auyis Milk and Honey bit that book was read in 2018? Please help I’m confused or other people are! If it’s not that please post a response so people do go start to read the book
We are extremely excited to announce that our selection for May/June is: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. This National Book Award finalist was included on 75 Best Books of the Year lists when it debuted. We were aware of the discrimination that Koreans living in Japan faced and still endure today, but were wholly unprepared for how Lee’s writing captivated us from the very first sentence and never let go: “History has failed us, but no matter.”
Min Jin Lee is unabashedly a feminist and her resilient female characters propel this riveting story. Lee has written a moving, historical saga that is also a timeless masterpiece; almost 500 pages long, and we didn’t want it to end. This brilliant, eye-opening novel is about outsiders, minorities, the disenfranchised and yet somehow embraces us all.
We asked the author if she would share an introduction to herself and the book for Our Shared Shelf members and she graciously agreed. All of us at Team OSS are looking forward to discussing Pachinko with you.
With love,
Team OSS
From Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires:
I learned about the lives of the Korean-Japanese people, also known as the Zainichi, when I was nineteen years old. At university, I heard a lecture about how Koreans ended up in Japan during the colonial era (1910-1945) and how they remained after the Pacific War ended. At that time, I had no intention of becoming a fiction writer. Nevertheless, even then, I knew that the story of these people meant something important to me. It took me almost three decades to write Pachinko, a novel of a poor Korean woman’s migration to Japan. In the story, a very young woman becomes pregnant, rejects the man who has deceived her, then marries a poor man who takes her to live in a foreign country. Illiterate and without resources, my character earns money to support her family in a nation that is hostile to her people.
Often, I am asked why I write novels. I write fiction, because stories have the power to connect the reader to our collective experiences and struggles. Whether it is attraction, rejection, inclusion, or exclusion, whether we seek love, work, or homeland, we can re-imagine our lives differently through the lives of characters and their desires.
Thank you for including Pachinko in Our Shared Shelf, a vibrant and vital community of thoughtful readers who care about our world and the liberation of all peoples from hatred, cruelty and inequality. Reading is a powerful space of paradigm reconstruction and literary imagination, and, this is a temporal space you and I can share. I am humbled to be included in your lives, and I share your vision of a greater, broader, and freer world, where you and I can better care for ourselves, friends, and for all those who need us. We are a global family, and we are powerful together.