The Moony Girl

(11 of 2021) 📚 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 📚 At the cost of repetition, nonfiction is macros for me, fiction is micros. Community vs individual. Statistics vs emotions. Call me partial, but latter is what I enjoy. Pachinko is a story of four such generations of Koreans who migrate to Japan during the Second World War. 📚 Starting from Yangjin and Hoonie giving birth to Sunja in Yeongdo, Korea and her journey to Osaka, Japan, the story transcends through the life of her children Noa and Mozasu and ends at the fourth generation represented by Solomon. 📚 It was a long winded novel spanning over 79 years. It had to. Because it represents how the feelings towards motherland change with the passage of time and change in political and economic status. Where Yangjin never accepts Japan as her own, Solomon can never dream of embracing Korea. This book is a must read for expatriates struggling with the dilemma of their next Gen being engulfed by the 'foreign' country. 📚 Painf

(10 of 2021) 📚 'Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight' by Rujuta Diwekar #latepost 📚 If you regularly follow my posts, you must remember I posted about 'The Mindful Diet' last year. This book is a smarter and practical version of it, because as Rujuta Diwekar's dieting school goes, (i) it talks in terms of your genetic makeup, and rather than eating fancy super foods, it talks about why you should stick to the meal that your nans and grans promoted, and (ii) for a mean-but-not-lean Punjabi like me,  (and it's a big deal - because I've tried most of the (free and not so free) diet plans on the market which talk sh*t challenging your sanity) it won't stop you from consuming Ghee or dairy. 📚 The best thing about RD and this book is - it won't make tall promises and it simplifies eating for you. Praying for a waist like Kylie or a jawline like Kareena (bee-tee-dubs Kareena follows RD too 🤩 - I was sold at that point itself), we forge