2 more books via Bookmooch.com arrived today.
Oh, what a wonderful feeling it is to receive books through mail.
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin. This will be the second Korean book that I will be reading. Synopsis: "Please Look After Mom” is the work of a popular South Korean novelist,
Kyung-sook Shin, who is being published in English for the first time.
It sold more than a million copies in South Korea, where there may not be a dry hankie left in the land. The book is about the selfish family of Park So-nyo, a woman who got
lost in the crowd at a train station in Seoul and has not reappeared.
Shocked into decency, her husband, two sons and two daughters find
themselves replaying all the button-pushing, tear-jerking moments that
illustrated this woman’s love and devotion. It would be a grievous
understatement to call her a mere martyr. ~~ NY Times 
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. I realized that
since the day I fell in love with reading, I've never had a knack in reading classics. Now, I'm regretting it. One thing I like about reading
is that it's always never too late to read a book regardless of how
long it has been around unnoticed. Synopsis: Love in the Time of Cholera opens on the day of Dr. Juvenal Urbino's
death. He is a highly successful doctor who has done much for the
Caribbean city in which he lives, so his death has a great effect on the
city. The two who are most affected are Fermina Daza, his widow, and Florentino Ariza,
the man who has been waiting for him to die for fifty-one years.
Florentino was Fermina's first love; as teenagers, over a period of four
years, they corresponded almost daily by mail, and they were engaged
for most of that time. But after returning from a trip that her father
made her take in order to forget Florentino, Fermina found that she had
no feelings for him, and her love for him was just an illusion.
Florentino became desperate, and when he found out that Fermina was
going to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, he vowed to become as successful as
he could while waiting for Dr. Urbino to die, so that he could win back
Fermina when the time came. ~~ Gradesaver
