Aiden Park

On Pachinko

27 days ago

the weight of what sunja carries from that first chapter never really lifts, even at the very end — lee earns every page of it

★★★☆☆

On Outline

29 days ago

faye listens so carefully to everyone around her and yet we learn almost nothing concrete about her own life — it's a strange, compelling effect

On The God of Small Things

1 months ago

the love laws passage is haunting me. who decides who can love whom and how much. roy just lets that question sit there

On One Hundred Years of Solitude

2 months ago

the arrival of the gypsies and melquíades feels like a myth explaining itself as it unfolds