The Vegetarian

 2/20/24

I don't remember which prompt this book falls under. I guess I'll just have to read it to figure it out. This is one of the shorter books I am planning to read. I should be able to get if done in about a day in a half. From the first chapter so far, we have our main character who has lived a pretty mundane life. Everything follows a routine and his wife is pretty passive. Then when it was five years of marriage, his wife started to act a little bit different. I'm not sure what is going on but I'm already interested. 

2/21/24

I have to be honest here. I'm struggling with this book. It is interesting But with the constant interruptions, it is a little hard to follow. This is one of the books you have to listen to with full focus in order to understand what is going on. I'm not sure if I am going to actually finish this book. I did put this in the book under the prompt "Set in a country you never visited" since it takes place in South Korea. This book also lands in a few other prompts but I picked the first one I saw. I'll at least try to get at least halfway through this book. It isn't that long but like I said, it is hard to understand. All we have is that a young woman suddenly decided to become a vegetarian after she started to experience a series of violent nightmares. The book focuses around her family members trying to understand what is going on with this young woman and also trying to get her to eat meat because she was simply wasting away. Like I said, the book is interesting but with interruptions it is hard for me to follow. 

2/22/24

Well this book is a rollercoaster. There are only three long chapters in this book. Each chapter is through the point of view of a different person. The first chapter is the husband of the woman who became a vegetarian. The second chapter is the brother-in-law of the woman. Then chapter three is the sister of the woman. The first chapter had the husband trying to understand what is going on with his wife. Trying to figure out why she suddenly became a vegetarian due to a dream. You could even tell that he was getting a little annoyed about it. In the second chapter you find out that the husband eventually left his wife because he just couldn't handle his wife's behavior. The second chapter was really a rollercoaster. Seeing the vegetarian in the point of view as her brother-in-law was weird. I'm only saying it was weird because I'm pretty sure there was a part where he got turned on by the thought of her blood being on him. He then becomes obsessed with his sister-in-law for some odd reason. He comes up with excuses to see her naked and it isn't because of lust. Or, at least that is what he tells himself. But his obsession gets to bad that he basically gets himself painted in flowers and assaults her. Chapter three is where we are now with the vegetarian's sister. She explains that her sister is now in a mental institute and her now ex-husband is now in hiding. But the sister is now starting to get dreams about her sister, the vegetarian. I guess these dreams have something to do with her sister thinking she is a tree or something like that. It is hard to focus when no one lets me actually listen to the book. I'm still working through the last chapter. Right now we are going through the experience of the sister visiting the vegetarian in the ward where they are staying. It is all just a rollercoaster. If I had to rate this book, it would be two stars out of five. I liked it and I found it interesting, but it is hard to follow in some parts. The different points of views don't help but I can understand why the author did it. It is interesting to see different points of view when someone starts to slowly fall into insanity.