Lalala House
- Author
- Kim Young-ha (written by)
- Publisher
- Maumsanchaek | Published 2012-05-15
- Category
- Poetry/Essay
- Book intro
- A delightful rebellion of the everyday delivered by writer Kim Young-ha! A curious and pleasant ... of thought ...
The books I'm reading these days are a bit difficult. Books like 'Why Be Moral?' and 'Faust' are really difficult. So on days when it's truly too hard to read, I don't even open a book at all. Faust takes a long time because I have to think about what meaning each part holds, and the book on 'morality' makes me keep comparing it with my own notion of morality. But with an essay collection like this, there's no need for that. So I listen very comfortably to someone else's stories. It's relaxing because it's a book that requires no value judgment whatsoever. It's not that I dislike books that require thought, but I'd like to say that sometimes just taking in idle chatter recharges my energy too.
That's why Kim Young-ha's 'Lalala House,' which I read recently, was a very light and easy book. A book that simply leaves me at ease. For someone like me who automatically starts thinking about myself when I read books with a social and philosophical flavor, this kind of book is, in a way, like a 'smoothie.' Should I say that when you eat a smoothie it's just comfortable and sweet, so it's nice? This book is like that too.
Books that talk about cats this comfortably are rare, and it was a book that recharged my energy for the first time in a while.
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