Review: Beauty Looks Down on Me

Beauty Looks Down on Me by Eun Hee-kyung
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I had issues with pretty much every one of these short stories, but I'm still giving it 5 stars. Mainly because I think it's my fault.

Each one of these stories seems to stem from some research. In other words, I feel like each story made me smarter, whether it be regarding weight loss, time and memory, or Russian cosmonauts.

However, don't expect closure as such from any of these stories. The proverbial quest is the journey itself (or whatever the expression is).

- Beauty Looks Down on Me: A great story about a man and his weight loss
- Discovery of Solitude: The oddest story, probably, but full of nostalgia.
- Weather and life: A perfectly normal girl is actually quite resilient, although I'm not sure she ever figures it ou
- Map addict: Seems to show the juxtaposition between routine and adventure. A guy joins a hike in the Rockies.
- Praising Doubt: A woman is meeting a man with her same name for a date, but his twin brother shows up instead. This is just the beginning of it.
- Yuri Gagarin’s Blue Star: My favorite story. A man stuck in a comfortable routine receives an odd email that arouses memories. I wish this had a conclusion. I really felt it left me hanging, but it was great.




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Review: Poor Man's Wife

Poor Man's Wife by Eun Heekyung
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This short book left me feeling frustration, anger and disappointment, which was probably the point. 

It shows the frustration on both the side of the husband and the wife in a so-called 'typical marriage'. 

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