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J A E B U M 

Veronica decides to die , Paulo Coelho (x) “ Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, pleny of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. ”  - JB

The big picture, Douglas Kennedy (x) “ What If You Had to Choose Between Your Life and Someone Else’s? Ben Bradford has it all: a beautiful wife and two healthy sons, a big house in an affluent Connecticut suburb, partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm. But scratch the surface and you’ll find a deeply unhappy man. Not only are Ben’s dreams of life as a professional photographer slipping away, but so is his wife – into the arms of another man, who, Ben discovers, just happens to be a photographer. ” 

Essays in Love, Alain de Botton (x) “ The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.”

The moment, Douglas Kennedy (x) “ A love story of great epic sweep and immense emotional power, The Moment explores why and how we fall in love—and the way we project on to others that which our hearts so desperately seek. ”

Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami (x) “Powered by two remarkable characters. As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear,the author enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. ”

Thank you, my life ,  Lee Jisung (x) “ A story about 20s who’s find theirself on their hard time ” - only in korean-.

I’m a season that does not exist in the world, Kyung Ju Kim (x) ” Poetry. The living are born in the dead people’s world, and the dead are born in the living.”

Ordinary existence, Lee Seok Won (x) , “  A collection of essays written by the  leader of Korean modern rock group Sister’s Barbershop. - Do you really not love yourself at all? Stop eating supper, please. -”

Where Would I Be Without You?  , Guillaume Musso (x) , “Gabrielle has two men in her life. One is her father, the other her first love. One is a great cop, the other a famous thief. They are long gone, having left an empty space in her heart. On the same day, at the same time, they reappear, turning her life upside down.“

Late Autumn , Kim Tae Yong, “ It stars as Anna, a prisoner who is given a 72 hours parole to visit family in Seattle, and who meets and befriends a South Korean man on-the-run ” -  movie script, based on 만추 (Manchu) by Kim Jiheon-

I want to live happily until I die, Lee Geun Hoo ,an essay - only in korean-.

Five Days, Douglas Kennedy (x) , “ Laura works in a small hospital on the Maine coast, scanning and x-raying many a scared patient. In a job where finding nothing is always the best result, she is well versed in the random unfairness of life, a truism that has started to affect her personally. Her husband Dan has become a stranger since losing his job. With a son in college and a daughter set to leave home, she wonders how the upcoming empty nest will affect the disconnected state of her marriage. ”

One plus One, JoJo Mojes (x), “ Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. ”

Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung ,  Ajahn Brahm  (x), “ Drawing from his own life experience, as well as traditional Buddhist folk tales,the  author uses over thirty years of spiritual growth as a monk to spin delightful tales.“

The New Psychology of Success , Carol Dweck  (x) “ Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success—but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset “

Twinkle Twinkle, Kaori Ekuni (x) , “ They got married ten days ago. They haven’t had sex yet and they don’t intend to.”

The Devotion Of Suspect X , Keigo Higashino (x) , “Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. ”

Chiyo of Closet, Ogiwara Hiroshi ( 押入れのちよ ) “Short horror fiction consists of 9 stories “

Me Before You, JoJo Mojes (x) , “ Louisa Clark is an ordinary young woman living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair-bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. ”

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage , Haruki Murakami (x)  , “The remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages. “

J I N Y O U N G 

The course of love, Alain de Botton (x), “ We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love.”

 The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Salinger (x), “ The hero-narrator  is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story.”

The First Phone Call from Heaven ,  Mitch Albom (x) , “The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax?“

Alors voilà - Les 1001 vies des urgence ,  Baptiste Beaulieu (x), “The adventures of a young emergency doctor.”

Le Souligneur , Caroline Bongrad - “ Constance a 24 ans, et une seule passion littéraire, Gary. Au hasard d'un emprunt de livre dans la bibliothèque de son quartier, elle découvre une phrase soulignée qui semble s'adresser à elle. Commence alors un jeu de cache-cache avec le souligneur et un dialogue s'instaure par Dostoïevski, Gary ou Nimier interposés” - not translated.

Fahrenheit 451,  Ray Bradbury  (x) , “ Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.” 

The Secret, Rhonda Byrne (x) , “Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it ”

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff …and It’s All Small Stuff ,  Richard Carlson  (x) , “In thoughtful and insightful language, the author reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.“

Look At the Poem , Choi Dae Ho. -only in korean-

11 minutes, Paulo Coelho (x), “The story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. ”

The Alchemist,Paulo Coelho (x), “This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids ”

The Maze Runner , James Dashner (x), “ If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.“

No Longer Human , Osamu Dazai (x) ,“Tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself “disqualified from being human”

Between Calmness and Passion , Kaori Ekuni, “ It engages in character analysis based on theories of psychological narrative as proposed by Sarbin and Foucauldian notions of power and sexuality ”

Nature and Selected Essays ,  Ralph Waldo Emerson (x) “ If the Stars Should Appear One Night in a Thousand Years “

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ,  F. Scott Fitzgerald (x), ”In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward “

The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald (x) “ The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.“

The Life Before Us  Romain Gary (x) ,“The Life Before Us is the story of an orphaned Arab boy, Momo, and his devotion to Madame Rosa, a dying, 68-year-old, 220-lb. survivor of Auschwitz and retired “lady of the night.” ” 

The Fault In Our Stars , John Green (x) “Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.“

The Kite Runner , Khaled Hosseini (x) “ It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ” 

Fifty Shades of Grey, E. L. James (x), ”When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating.“

Thanks to me 나에게 고맙다 , Jeon Seung Hwan ,-not translated.-

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared ,   Jonas Jonasson (x), “ It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not… Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway.”

1cm+ ,  Kim Eun Joo , essay - not translated-

The Princess Kidnapping , Kim Jin Myung “ This is a historical fiction dealing with the Korea-Japan relationship.“

Sentences of the Young ,  Kim Yeon Su “ It is nonfiction and consists of several episodes came from the author’s experience. And he condensed each episode to one sentence from other books he read. “ - nos translated-  

Memoir of a Murderer , Kim Young Ha, - not translated. -

The Festival of Insignificance , Milan Kundera (x), “Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism—that’s The Festival of Insignificance “

Slowness , Milan Kundera (x), “Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer’s night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic.“

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (x) , “The story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover ” 

To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee (x)  “The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it“

 Hector and The Search For Happiness , François Lelord (x) “ Once upon a time there was a young psychiatrist called Hector who was not very satisfied with himself… “

The Moon and Sixpense ,  W. Somerset Maugham (x),“ Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham’s ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius“

All She Was Worth ,  Miyuki Miyabe (x) “ The dark side of Japan’s consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, that murder may be the only way out. “

Norwegian Wood , Haruki Murakami (x) , “Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman “

69, Ryu Murakami (x) , “ SIXTY-NINE is a roman à clef about coming of age during a time that left its mark on baby boomers around the world-a time when we really believed we could change the world before it changed us. “

Voyage Through Stars , Yuka Murayama (x) “This novel is “a view of the constellation that is a family; a tale of loves that could not be; and a gentle unraveling of personal histories?things that have come to pass and those that are yet to be.“ 

Central Park ,  Guillaume Musso (x)  “Alice, a young Parisian cop and Gabriel, American jazz pianist, wake up on a bench in Central park hand­cuffed to one another. They don’t know each other and have no memory of having met. The night before, Alice was at a party with her girl­friends on the Champs-Elysées and Gabriel was playing piano in a club in Dublin. “

Girl on Paper ,  Guillaume Musso (x) “ Tom Boyd, a famous writer who’s suffering from writer’s block, meets one day the heroin of his novels. She’s pretty, desperate, and tells him she will die if he stops writing. Impossible? And yet… “

A Mix-Up in Heaven,  Guillaume Musso (x) “ The hardest part isn’t finding love, it’s learning how to hold on to it.“

This Very Instant,  Guillaume Musso (x)” Lisa and Arthur can only see each other one time per year.He spends his life looking for her…She spends hers waiting.“

Tomorrow ,  Guillaume Musso, (x) “ She is his past…he is her future.”

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (x) “ Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady’s gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter “

Open the Window, Eyes Closed ,  Ngọc Thuần Nguyễn (x), “ For the first time in Vietnam, a children book talks about tragedies, even deaths, in an uncompromising style and yet with such compassionate love. “

The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World,  Noh Hee Kyung , “An artist who touches the authenticity of humanity and touches the value of love. “

The Enemy’s Cosmetique ,  Amélie Nothomb (x), “Without wanting to, I have committed the perfect crime: nobody saw me coming, except for the victim. The proof, I am still free. “

Hygiene and the Assassin , Amélie Nothomb (x), “ Prétextat Tach, Nobel Prize winner and one of the world’s most renowned novelists, has two months to live. He has been in seclusion for years, refusing interviews and public appearances. But as news of his impending death becomes public, intrepid journalists from around the globe flock to his home in pursuit of an interview with the elusive author. One after the other they discover that, far from being the literary luminary they imagined, Tach has become an obese misogynist, a petulant bigot, an embittered, disgusting madman. The world’s most famous author turns out to be the worst misantrhope imaginable. “

Psychiatrist Irabu,  Hideo Okuda (x), “ A divorced man angry at his wife finds a painfully prominent outlet in a permanent erection; a model thinks every man on the street is a stalker; an overbearing magazine editor relieves his mid-life crisis by long-distance swimming … These are some of the patients who descend to the basement consulting room of Doctor Ichiro Irabu, an obese, eccentric neurologist with an injection fetish, an Oedipus complex. and a pea-green Porsch.”

The Little Prince ,  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (x), “ With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe .“

Please Look After Mom ,  Shin Kyung Sook (x) “This is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.”

The Records of Three Kingdoms , Chen Shou (x) , “ The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180–220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states.”

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ,  R.L Stevenson (x), “ In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde. “

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer,  Patrick Suskind (x) , “ In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift — an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume” — the scent of a beautiful young virgin. “

My Sweet Orange Tree ,  José Mauro de Vasconcelos (x), “ Five-year-old Zezé lives in Rio de Janeiro, in a forgotten slump in great poverty. But Zezé is not alone. In this world of scolding and beating, he has discovered a magical universe where he spends most of his time: the realm of imagination.”

The Encyclopedia of Absolute and Relative Knowledge ,  Bernard Werbe, (x) “A dictionary of things ranging from bread recipes to the explanation of the number “Zero” “

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Tree of Possibilities by Bernard Werber

Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino

1Q84 by Haruki Murakamu

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Jules and Jim by Henri-Pierre Roché

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Sympathy for the Devil by Jerrilyn Farmer

Essays In Love by Alain de Botton

Who Ordered This Truckload Of Dung? by Ajahn Brahm 

海辺のカフカ / Kafka On The Shore by Murakami Haruki

色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 / Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

The Moment by Douglas Kennedy

Five Days by Douglas Kennedy

The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck 

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Brida by Paulo Coelho

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

The One plus One by Jojo Moyes

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Que serais-je sans toi? / Where would I be without you? by Guillaume Musso

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window & Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson  

名探偵の掟 / The rule of the detective by Higashino Keigo

きらきらひかる  / Twinkle Twinkle by Ekuni Kaori 

 押入れのちよ  / Chiyo in the closet by Ogiwara Hiroshi

 보통의 존재 / Ordinary existence by Lee Seokwon

만추 / Late autumn by Kim Taeyong

 나는 죽을 때까지 재미있게 살고 싶다 | I want to have a fun life until the last breath (essay) by Lee Geunhoo

 인생아, 고맙다 / Thank you, my life by Yi Jiseong

스스로 웃는 매미 by 장대송

맑음에 대하여 / About ‘Clear’

포이톨로기 Poetologie by 김병호

왜 행복해야해?

우리는 분위기를 사랑해

Lo-fi by 강성은

죄송한 초상화

회색인간

13일의 김남우

무뎌진다는 것

나는 당신이 생각하는 것보다 예민한 사람입니다만

박찬욱의 오마주 by 박찬욱 저

무례한 사람에게 웃으며 대처하는 법

하마터면 열심히 살 뻔했다

당신의 마음을 안아줄게요

너였다면 이곳에 낭만적인 이름을 붙였을까

타이베이의 연인들

정말 미안하지만, 나는 아무렇지도 않았다

marta: ah what wonderful news! thank you

nurse: