It occurred to me I always enjoyed what I ate when I was with him — On an early morning of a February Friday, I woke up and went to get my third shot of COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later, side effects started to affect my body. From chills and a fever to aches and a headache, I was not feeling great. When I woke up Saturday…

“Tissues are like lives. There are always more.” — Thinking about alternate universes and possibilities should be approached with caution. If we don’t tread lightly, those thoughts will travel along our beings and leave us with nothing but regret. In Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, main character Nora is told that “doing one thing differently is often the same…

“We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.” — Avoidance is the easy way out. When something entices you, creates a drive in you, courage would push you towards it, no matter the cost. Taking a chance on something — love, opportunity, uncertainty — always has a cost. Even if what you are paying with is your own peace…

“Jiyoung, don’t stay out of trouble.” — I take worlds with me. I am a vessel that carries books in her hands, thoughts in her mind, and stories in her heart that move selflessly to the tip of her tongue. A vessel, yet a quiet one. “You’re a very private person,” my dad said to me a…

Tales of the sky as told in BTS songs — back then, we had such a hard time, didn’t we? lifting my head to see the stars in the sky so far away back then, you didn’t believe the milky way but what i saw was a silver galaxy – Inner Child – A back story… Two weeks ago, I…

“I think May is the laziest of all the months.” — Sohn Won-pyung wrote in the Author’s Note section her novel, Almond: I know this may be a clichéd conclusion to draw. But I have come to think that love is what makes a person human, as well as what makes a monster. She didn’t explain what love is, or what…

Nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts. — Tristran Thorn is a young, spirited hopeless romantic, and Neil Gaiman’s Stardust invites us to adopt that role alongside him. To win the heart of the girl who has his heart, Tristran undergoes a search for a fallen star. …

Almost every piece of culture that centers around time travel typically has one golden rule: don’t mess with time travel. Time is a universal experience because it moves at the exact same pace; a day is always 24 hours (give or take) for everyone. However, through our own individual perceptions…

Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman is, in one word, unorthodox. It’s a very short novel, and plot-wise, it doesn’t pack that much of what you would call “action”. But that’s also the reason why it serves its purpose well. This book tells a story of a Japanese woman named Keiko…