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November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024
A quiet yet engaging near-future story about a boy growing up in a state-run facility
The story: To address Korea's low birth rate, the government has encouraged citizens to have babies and surrender them to state-run facilities. When they turn 13, these kids can be adopted by families. Jenu 301, a child being raised in one of these facilities, went an unusually long time without being adopted and faces the possibility that he will age out and go through life with no family.
Not much happens in this story, and yet somehow I found it quite compelling, enough so that I read it twi
August 23, 2023
A fun short story collection about a magic snack shop.
This book contains a prolog, epilog, and five short stories about people who visit a magic snack shop. The shop sells them a treat which can give them whatever they want, but there's always a catch. Depending on whether or not they read the warning (no one ever does!) and on how brave / clever / diligent / etc a person is, they might benefit or end up in a bad state.
This book is very fun and each of the stories contains some repeated content, which is great for learners. The protagonist will a
Dog Detective!
In this charming children's book, family dog Audrey solves three cases, each case arising from some family or neighborhood crisis.
This story is very cute, and it's a great early pick for language learners moving to longer stories, because being divided into three cases helps keep things from being overwhelming. For each case, I found that the front of the story had a lot of unknown words, but they then got reused throughout the story.