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While the first few chapters are like a whirlwind, packed with fast-moving plot details that the reader must sort out, the rest of the book smoothly travels through Ren’s journey across Japan — there is never a dull moment.
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Reading closely is about creating a more pleasurable experience for yourself. I compared it to eating more mindfully — chewing slowly, feeling the texture, noticing the colors and smelling the scent.
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I realized that the average person spends a lot of time immersed in stories, media and art. It gave me a tiny nudge that this world has space for me to share my stories and art too.
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For the first time, I could not look away; I had to acknowledge misogyny as a universal problem, not a mere inconvenience specific to my Eastern society.
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“Sorrow,” with soft and bright precision, paints how Joe begins to grasp the sentiment that he himself contrived.
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Despite any allure that may be lost in this more explicit literary approach, “Evening” is a page-turner that instills a hope amid even the most dire and final of circumstances.
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It is interesting to consider how, and to what degree, can a moment in time somehow morph into an expression that will last for years to come.
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“Parakeet” touches on the near-insolvable crises tangled within the enigma that is the human condition.
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One of the most tremendous accomplishments of Bollen’s fourth novel is the depth of its characters.
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“I have a lot of anxiety around speaking, so working in the short form allows me to empower language with very little,” Polek said.
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