How Was Your Summer? (Collection of Kim Ae-Ran's Works)

After reading several books by author Jin Aishan, I always feel a kind of sadness flowing in my heart. This kind of sadness is not as fast and violent as the downpour of rain, but like the mildew that creeps up on the inconspicuous wall due to long-term damp and cold weather. I always feel like my life is slowly growing moldy. As a reader who relies on words to imagine pictures, there are many words in Kim Ae-ran's books that describe pictures that I cannot imagine. This may be why I sometimes find reading boring, and perhaps it also implies that my imagination is somewhat lacking. Compared with the other books, I like this one the best, "How is Your Summer?" .

What's a little uncomfortable is that there are several references to China being bad or bad, but the stories are all very good. I feel like I can learn about Korean women, their troubles and lives even if I haven't been to Korea. I'll comment after I finish reading it.

Almost all of them are masterpieces. The theme revolves around pain, the pain of all kinds of people, men, women, old people and children, permeating every detail of life. The writing style is excellent, the metaphors and rhetoric are just right, and there is a faint hint of inexplicable sadness in the writing. It is both symbolic and realistic.

I personally feel that I am not qualified enough to write a book review for this anthology, so I will only talk about my personal reading experience. Jin Ai's summer is beautiful. It is so beautiful that it makes people feel confused and lonely, like "everyone is wandering in the sky with no place to stay", vast and ethereal, but it is also profoundly true. The writing style is delicate and colorful. The hot and confusing summer is dull but beautiful, and inexplicably reveals the despair of yellow, green and withered autumn. Jin Ae-ran's words flow out naturally. For me who is struggling to study writing, this is simply a genius (I hold my head and sigh... Kim Ae-ran is so good at describing detailed scenes in ordinary life. Her description was so subtle that it made me feel painful. The writing style makes me very sad, why?

Such inspiring words, true and natural A humid, rotten but vibrant summer

The author has amazing language. It is not a pile of gorgeous words, but real literature. It uses simple descriptions to show the pictures. This is what talented writing should be like. I had a strong resonance and wrote out what I saw in my mind and eyes. I think I will fall in love with her book.

The current situation of East Asian families is very realistically written, and sadness is shrouded in each novel in a light or strong way. I like the last article very much. I really want to have a sister like that who can constantly guide me forward.

It's so good that I can't express my feeling after watching it in words. When I watched it, I felt like I was wrapped in a warm chest that was gentle but cruel. Recently, a large area was being demolished nearby. When I passed by, I saw the large ruins that had been demolished and a few old high-rise buildings that were still waiting to be demolished. I suddenly thought of "Bugs"; on a rainy day when the water on the road covered my legs and there were not many pedestrians on the road, I thought of "Gloria in the Water"; at high-speed rail stations, airports and even large-scale When I went to the toilet in the shopping mall, I thought of "The Axis of a Day"; when friends asked me to go traveling together on National Day, I thought of "Hotel Nikta"; and the most profound one was "Thirty Years Old". When I was looking for a job, when I saw students after school on the road, when I saw the hard-working people around me, when I tried to persuade myself to continue living, I would think of "Thirty Years Old". I had a very powerless feeling. Even though I was only in my early twenties, I seemed to be in my eighties.

The love of words and I meet each other very late. Her own writing has absolutely outstanding delicacy and accuracy, as well as an unimaginable ability to leave blank space. This kind of easy-to-handle and replay description is by no means something acquired. It is attributed to the author's long-term personal touch and perception of life. Each story is as mentioned in the preface, as beautiful but cruel as a glowing tropical fish. Endless aftertaste, sweet yet astringent. I was also lucky enough to experience the feeling of grabbing a branch on the edge of a cliff that she wanted to express through her words. My favorite is still the article "How is your summer?" Maybe it's because I have had similar feelings and can empathize with it more. Outdated clothes, aesthetic taste that can never be improved, misplaced impressions of predecessors leading to being exploited, the funeral of childhood friends... Perhaps growing up is an afterthought, and embarrassment is more uncomfortable than disappointment. A thousand people have a thousand summers. I believe everyone tastes something different from this story, and it really hit me. What is not written is always more important. I said, I also want to write such words.

It's really well written, and every article is meaningful. Some of the articles were really depressing, but they were also very real [crying] The first love in the first article was not what I imagined, it was really easy to break up and end. Long Da, that taxi driver, everyone despises him and avoids him. It's so sad. The article about insects is about being married to a husband who doesn't care. She feels that her marriage is very sad and not happy at all. In order to pick up the rose ring, she went there even though she was pregnant, but ended up falling there, surrounded by insects. It was so scary. Goliath in the water, this article is like the mother being flooded by the rain and unable to escape. It is so depressing. He is the only one left in the world. Qiyu, a cleaning lady, felt so lonely that she didn't even get a word of concern from her son during the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is also friendship, two people go out to play together, and conflicts arise. There is also the moonlight clan, vanity. …

The female perspective is both delicate and unique, and it speaks directly to people's hearts. Regarding the afterthought feelings, the disgust for family members and the desire to protect, the three-dimensional individual who coexists with darkness and brightness... The author has his own metaphors. In the pictures formed by these stories, he can see the entangled struggles and memories of the characters.

In fact, I quite understand the first love in the first article. When encountering this kind of thing, it may be OOC and hypocritical to others, but when you are really isolated and helpless, who can you turn to? And the husband in the second article is actually responsible. Maybe, after all, "I" am a housewife without a job.

It's really an amazing book. When I was watching "A Day's Axis", I felt so boring and boring, but when I saw that everything was connected later, I felt sad and had a long aftertaste. And every time I read an article, I have to digest it for a while before I am willing to read the next one [crying] The author's writing is so good!

Life is like a manicure, beautiful and fragile. Like the trembling ginkgo on the branches, it neither falls nor rots.

This book is unexpectedly short, maybe because I finished it after a few months? Kim Ae-ran presents the stories of people from the lower class. She calmly tears apart the veil of social consumerism and allows me to see struggling individuals who want to pursue a better life. As she wrote in Thirty, hard work doesn't necessarily bring good results. Almost every individual is working hard to live and get out of the quagmire of their current class, but everyone is confused about the future and afraid of the unknown. I know that all this happens not only in Korean society. I like the reality in her writing. The little people at the bottom are not stereotyped. I saw kindness, vanity, selfishness, and jealousy in them. They were ups and downs between the boundary between ideals and reality, and they were full of contradictions. Every character was so vivid-the same was true for old people, middle-aged men, or women. She presented us with their last resort choices one by one, and mostly narrated them in the first person without any objective evaluation. This moved me very much - she aimed to make us readers think instead of directly telling us her own thoughts: What kind of resonance will we have in the face of such them, how will we know them, and what kind of reflection will we have on this society. Even if it's unfair, even if you feel resentful, what can you do? People are travelers, walking on their own path, adjusting their form in the environment where they have to survive in society, and exploring forward step by step. Maybe the luggage is slowly loaded with handy tools, and gold can be knocked out from the stones; maybe the pockets are gradually dry and we can only look around in panic, wiping tears and struggling to survive, walking slowly or running fast, north, south or east, no matter what shape or direction we have to walk. This is our individual unique life trajectory and life history, and each of us forms the torrent of this era. After reading this book, I want to know myself more, and I also hope that I can understand and view others from a more complete perspective and attitude.

My favorite chapter is The Axis of a Day. From the perspective of a Korean entertainment star girl, the description of Incheon Airport overlaps with the scene of Incheon Airport where I have been rushing. It will give me a different feeling. In the process of reading the book, I will pull out my previous memories and experience it again.

"How is your summer?"✔️ Eight stories, some understandings, some excerpts. 1⃣️How is your summer? - Fantasy and neglect in love. 2⃣️Bugs - Pregnant women, marriage and fear. 3⃣️Goliath in the Water - I really don't like this article. 4⃣️There is night, here is song - the "love" and domestic violence of middle-aged men. 5⃣️A day's axis - the dilemma of middle-aged women. 6⃣️Stratum corneum-the vanity of "voluntary" service and expense. 7⃣️Nikta Hotel - the journey of friends, intimacy and quarrels. 8⃣️Thirty years old - Ordinary people who work hard to live are deceived by their ex-boyfriend into a MLM organization, and a former student is deceived into a MLM organization... The anxiety and confusion of those in their twenties and thirties.

The characters in this book are so real, just like my relatives and friends. Especially those women in their thirties, their stories really resonate with me. I think this book teaches us to face the difficulties in life bravely and to find hope even in desperate situations. I like this book and recommend it to you!

You are so good at writing. I really, really like it. You can feel the emotions the author wants to express just through the words Joy, sadness, pain, etc., Are all shown using words [cry][cry][cry]

Every story is eloquently told and makes people sigh. The author depicts the heart of each character very delicately and vividly, which is the most worth-seeing aspect of this novel.

After reading it, it's good

When I read the end, I felt a touch of sadness.

It's the taste of life, incomplete and incomplete

It's good-looking, but the tone is rather gloomy, describing the difficult and boring life of many people at the bottom.

The book is composed of short stories, focusing on each person's life and feelings. It is written very delicately. After reading it, I felt a little wet, like a clear drizzle falling on my face and heart.

There are a lot of reflections on current social issues, the story is very interesting, and the writing is really good.

A very realistic book that can also reflect a lot of social status quo and mentality, 😭 always lingering with a touch of sadness.

It's very realistic, that is to say

Still worth reading

Very nice and very graphic! ! !