:INFO
The Novel That Swallowed a Whole Weekend
I picked up Pachinko on a Friday evening with the intention of reading one chapter. Min Jin Lee's multigenerational story of a Korean family in Japan spans eight decades and four generations and does not once let you look away. By Saturday afternoon I was rationing chapters to make it last. By Sunday I had finished it and felt the particular loss that comes after a very good long novel ends.


:NOW
Thinking about the fourth generation's silence at the novel's end

:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Min Jin Lee]
History has failed us, but no matter.


:JOURNEY
Reading Pachinko
5 Strongest start
5 Undeniable weight
4 Less urgent
4 Restrained trust

:DURATION
2024-05-17T19:00:00Z
2024-05-19T14:00:00Z

:POLL
Have you ever lost a whole weekend to a novel without regret?
Yes, more than once and it is always worth it
Once or twice but I felt guilty about the lost time
Never, I read in short sessions only
I wish I could but I struggle to stay in a book that long