r/bookclub • u/ChronicallyLatte Invincible Bookclubber |🎃🃏🔍|| 🧠🥇 • Aug 03 '26
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 [Schedule] Runner up Read + Read The World | Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
Hello bookclubbers!
We're excited to kick off our next Runner up Read, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. This month, our pick is pulling double duty as both our Runner up Read and our Read the World selection!
Don't let its slim page count fool you because there's plenty to unpack, and we can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts.
Join u/thematrix1234 and me (u/ChronicallyLatte) as we read and discuss the book together over the coming weeks!
- Goodreads Blurb:
The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.
In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung—a millennial “everywoman”—spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate the voices of other women—dead and alive, both known and unknown to her. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that very person. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, Jiyoung’s concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist, who listens to her narrate her own life story—from her birth to a family who expected a son, to elementary school teachers who policed girls’ outfits, to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women’s restrooms and posted the photos online. But can her doctor cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? Rendered in eerie prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 announces the arrival of a major international writer.
- Discussion Schedule:
- August 13th: Beginning to p. 85 ("Early Adulthood, 2001–2011"). End with the sentence: "When companies posted open recruitment notices for the second half of the year, Jiyoung felt as though she was standing in a narrow alley, clogged with a thick fog, which turned into rain and fell on her bare skin.” - u/ChronicallyLatte
- August 20th: Continue from p. 85 ("Early Adulthood, 2001–2011") to End - u/thematrix1234
- Marginalia
We hope you'll join us as we read Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. See you in the discussion threads!
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u/Lachesis_Decima77 Tea Connoisseur ⭐️🧠🥉 Aug 03 '26
Got myself a copy!
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u/ChronicallyLatte Invincible Bookclubber |🎃🃏🔍|| 🧠🥇 Aug 04 '26
Perfect! See you on discussion day! ☺️
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u/bluebelle236 One More Chapter... One More Spin Aug 05 '26
This is now on the bookclub calendar
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=redditbookclubcalendar@gmail.com&ctz=Etc/GMT
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u/huahua16 Fashionably Late Aug 08 '26
started reading today :D
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u/ChronicallyLatte Invincible Bookclubber |🎃🃏🔍|| 🧠🥇 Aug 09 '26
Nice!! Excited to hear what you think at the discussion!
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u/ooooooooofffffffff12 Too Many Books Too Little Reading Time Aug 03 '26
Will be joining! Looking forward.