This book kept telling me that I was Umma approved, but you know what – this book is Unnie approved too! Since I am the same age as the main characters it is a bit hard to determine what exactly I would be called but this works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I loved this book for so many reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) It was written in a very easy to read manner. Don’t knock books for being easy to digest – I love when I can just power through chapter after chapter of a book without any regard for how much time is passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) I LOVE female empowerment being shown in books, and this book has it in abundance. Oh, you want to show a woman who is happy and thriving in a cutthroat male dominated field? Alice. You want to prove that you can also be happy and thriving while raising 3 kids? Celeste. Did I hear someone say PhD in ECON?! Flora. And these are just the supporting<\/em> characters to Jessie as she reinvents herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3) This isn’t marketed as #OwnVoices, but if you want a look at Korean-American culture, especially at the cross-section that is female and Southern, this book has all of that! Suzanne Park lived these experiences (not all of them – she does discuss some of her inspiration in the author’s note at the end of the book, they are from friends), and so there is a realism to this book that is authentic and not forced. I love slice-of-life type books about cultures that are not my own as I feel it is one of the best ways to learn more about people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4) CALLING OUT ALL OF THE SEXISM\/RACISM!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5) Food. That’s it. Just food. So much good food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Things I didn’t like about this book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1) I am CRAVING<\/strong> Korean food now and the Korean supermarket & restaurants I love are a solid 10+ hour drive away since I moved. So now I am just sad and desperately wishing I had some tteokbokki and soondubu as they are two of my favorite comfort foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2) There is no 2. That’s it. Only thing I didn’t like is that I am now craving Korean food. Well, I guess I am also sad it is over? I read the whole thing in a few hours so I wish I had more to the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall, 5\/5 easily – I really liked this book a lot, and I can’t wait to read the other books that Suzanne wrote (that I have sitting waiting for me).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \uc9c0\ud604\uc544, \ub098\ub791 \uce5c\uad6c\ud560\ub798?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This book kept telling me that I was Umma approved, but you know what – this book is Unnie approved too! Since I am the same age as the main characters it is a bit hard to determine what exactly I would be called but this works. I loved this book for so many reasons: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}6) Ok, Daniel isn’t too bad himself, so I guess having a HEA\/HFN with a cutie isn’t a terrible thing either.<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n