# Please Look After Mom

[metamorphesque]

musings on motherhood

Kyung-Sook Shin ("Please Look After Mom"), Nguyen Thanh Binh, Ocean Vuong ("Headfirst"), Ritika Jyala (excerpt from "The Flesh I Burned"), Gustav Klimt "Mother and Child" (detail from The Three Ages of Woman), Sue Zhao ("My mother texts me instructions to cook silken tofu")

buy me a coffee

[distilledforyouu]

unknown//clementine von radics//sue zhao//spencer madsen//boygenius//hieu minh nguyen//stephanie hsu and michelle yeoh//saorsie ronan and laurie metcalf//kyung-sook shin

[need-grows-teeth]

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Kyung-sook Shin Please Look After Mom / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Fleabag (2016-2019) cr. Phoebe Waller-Bridge / Annie Ernaux I Remain in Darkness / Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig / Phoebe Bridgers Motion Sickness / @honeytuesday / Thirteen (2003) dir. Catherine Hardwickle / Lorde The Love Club

[uslostinthememories]

Even though Mom’s missing, summer will come and fall will come again and winter will come, like this. And I’ll be living in a world without Mom.

Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin.

[samireads]

When visiting Melbourne it is essential to go book shopping 🛍️📚💁🏼‍♀️

[endlessendymion]

“And one day I went to church. I bowed at the feet of the Mother of Jesus, who was holding her dead son, so that she would help me out of the depression that I could no longer bear, that she would have mercy on me. But I stopped, thinking how I could ask anything of someone holding their dead child"

September 15, 2023. Our Lady of Sorrows day.

[losingmyselfinsleep]

Sister. Do you think we’ll be able to be with her again, even if it’s just for one day? Do you think I’ll be given the time to understand Mom and hear her stories and console her for her old dreams that are buried somewhere in the pages of time? If I’m given even a few hours, I’m going to tell her that I love all the things she did, that I love Mom, who was able to do all of that, that I love Mom’s life, which nobody remembers. That I respect her.

Please Look After Mom, Kyung-Sook Shin

[fandom-trash-goblin]

y'all i just started reading Please Look After Mom and, and it's in 2nd PERSON!!! i love, love, love second person (i am so so hyped up for this)

[hoppingoutcasketfresh]

Do you ever just wanna scream

[notespoetsstuff]

The unwinding realisation that your mum is a person, with a past she hasn’t told you, heartbreak that changed her and aspirations never claimed. The pedestal’s legs break and she is just a person. Struggles, pain, guilt. You never truly know what she has been through even if she may tell you parts. All you know is her life before you made her into the person you love despite it all.

[plushiechu]

don't mind me, I'm just shedding tears and causing myself a headache because of the book please look after mom🥺🥺🩷🩷

[enchantedbyforests]

I know that this is discussed so little, but women — daughters, wives, sisters who sacrifice many things in life - aren't appreciated much, if not at all, in the least. Women empowerment is talked about almost anywhere. Strong girls, yes. Everyone celebrates the strong women archetype. And the ones that are progressive too. No, that's not the correct stance to take, I feel. Mothers who have immeasurable love for their kids – not talked about. Wives who are willing to put aside whatever they want to pursue - not talked about. Daughters and sisters who strive to take care of their family - not talked about. People (us) only want to talk about the beautiful girlies, not the ones that are tired and exhausted because they prioritise family. I read this (Please look after Mom by Kyung sook shin) book and almost cried (no, I cried) – we don't see mothers as girls, but when we start growing up, we realize that we always feel like children. The mother in this story may remind you of your mother, at least it reminded me of mine and I never looked at older ladies the same way. I started asking elder women what age were they stuck in? And the replies were always half their actual age, give or take 8 years. In my heart, I still feel 17 but when I am excited about things or see things I love, I feel like I am a child. And I think almost everyone feels that way, one time or another. So give yourself some space, allow yourself to be dramatic and laugh out loud with your friends, please.

[saenggakajima]

Shin Kyungsook, Please look after mom

[astreamoflight]

Please Look After Mom

[samireads]

September wrap up, a pretty good month ✌🏻

Calling it now, October will only have a max of three books I reckon.