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Books, art, and life in Maine. Wednesday, February 7, 2018. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Pachinko parlor in Nara, Japan. The sign of a good book is feeling bereft at the end. Under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945, Koreans endured poverty, hunger, and rape. Some immigrated to Japan to live in slums. Even after World War II freed Korea, the Koreans who remained in Japan were treated as a legal underclass. It has a marvelous sense o.
I have not posted for a while and a lot has happened in that time. Lots of big, ridiculous decisions. So here I am, writing in bite size pieces about some of the good things that I feel right now. I have my own house. By my own, I really mean the bank. And I think this time it might stick.