Perhaps the greatest message of this book is to seek others in our time of need, to reflect on our pain and suffering, and to find comfort in the simplest pleasures like sticky, fried rice cakes. each chapter brought on new issues and we slightly pick up from the previous chapter but there is no overall character growth. As someone who gets depressed and also has anxiety, this book sounded high-key relatable and I was really excited to read it. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki is a book originally written in Korean, about a woman diagnosed with dysthymia.

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Goodreads I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Goodreads

The book, structured in the form of twelve conversations is a record of three months out of ten years of the author’s therapy, plus some loose chapters about her problems and thoughts. The literal Ctrl+C of the discussions you have with your psychiatrist do not hold any literary merit, which surprises me and puts into question the validity of creative writing courses in Korea. I reached for “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” by Baek Sehee for two main reasons: 1) I hoped to get a better insight into the way a standard therapy is conducted in South Korea, 2) I was interested to see how therapist’s culture influences the approach. This is a relatively short read which is made up of the transcripts from the author’s session with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period.the writing style is very blunt and straightforward which i found myself appreciating (for this topic) but i lost interest over halfway, for the same reason. May she, and everyone else, find their light within the darkness, their own reasons for living and happiness, even if it's as simple as a plate of tteokbokki. though an interesting concept, i thought the transcripts with the psychiatrist became quite repetitive. There are some really relatable things that she talks about, and I think she's really good at capturing some of the urgent, desperate, and irrational feelings someone has while spiraling into self-hatred/negative thinking cycles or having a panic attack, but the bulk of the book is literally just transcripts of her talking to her psychiatrist. I just want to clarify again, that this is is a well-written book, but I’m just not the right reader.

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The educational impulse is overwhelming, protagonist Baek remains a chiffre, and the (highly professional) dynamic between her and her therapist doesn't allow for enough immersion. They didn’t probe thoroughly enough, often didn’t seem to ask the right and most obvious questions, didn’t address extreme patriarchy, which made me see clearly how much the therapist is the product of their culture, in which abuse towards women and alcoholism are normalised.Seiten, die ich innerhalb von zwei Tagen verschlungen und dabei jede Seite mit jedem Wort aufgesogen habe. With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English.