In the night kitchen6/30/2023 ![]() When you’re awake at night and a bit drowsy, you might believe you see a UFO. Is it light or dark? Did that dream make sense? It had made perfect sense, and it still does make sense, but in the morning it won’t make sense, and probably will have faded away. And with that you get the distinction between being awake in the night and waking up in the night. ![]() ![]() Is the room light or dark, you wonder as your eyes get used to being open. What about when you wake up? You’ve been dreaming, and suddenly– what were you dreaming? Was that a dolphin or a shark? Your eyes struggle between open and closed, and finally settle on rising up, with that funny feeling as your eyelashes disentangle. (Well, maybe you’d admit to something else, but if you say you don’t like mushrooms I’m afraid we can’t be friends.) You can believe things in the dark, too: “Someone came knocking at my wee, small door.” Maybe you even believe you saw a UFO.īut that’s just in the dark. ![]() Have you ever quietly talked in a dark room? You can confess things: “I actually don’t like cilantro,” you whisper. It’s a bit more permissive, there in the dark. I couldn’t tell you what woke me (I was dreaming about sharks, so maybe that was it), but I noticed again what I’ve noticed before: waking up in the night feels different. ![]()
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Brain on fire novel6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Her hallucinations continued until the point where she believed that her father had killed her stepmother and that he was an imposter, taking the form of other people in order to gain access to Susannah and cause her harm. ![]() After missing a few days of work and experiencing strange feelings, she visited her doctor only to be told that she had mono or perhaps that she was drinking too much. ![]() Susannah had an interview with John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted for work, during which she could not concentrate or put together fluid questions. The first symptoms came with the thought that a bedbug bite had made her ill this first delusion was a sign of the strange experiences that would continue to grow increasingly more frightening in the subsequent weeks. Cahalan cannot recall many of the events during this time, but through her investigative skills as a reporter and impeccable records kept by her family and boyfriend, she was able to put together the pieces of her strange journey. Susannah experienced numbness accompanied by sudden seizures and hallucinations and became increasingly paranoid and combative. Susannah Cahalan chronicles her journey from a successful young reporter at the New York Post to a paranoid, seemingly psychotic patient at NYU medical center only a few weeks later. ![]() If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Wonna and her husband live on the first floor, also in a studio, and are a little older than the four friends. Kyuri, Miho, Sujin and Ara are all friends in their twenties living in an office-tel, or a building with studio apartments and office space. I would live your life so much better than you if I had your face. You have so much and you can do anything you want. Stop running around like a fool, I wanted to stay. ![]() I wanted to reach over and shake her by the shoulders. When the star is called back into an exam room, the two women lock eyes. ![]() The K-Pop star looks as if she’d been crying and pulls a cap down over her face when Kyuri peers over at her. At the beginning of Frances Cha’s debut novel, If I Had Your Face, a fierce social commentary about gender roles, class divisions and, yes, plastic surgery in South Korea, Kyuri is seated at her plastic surgeon’s office and spots the K-Pop star whose look she copied for her many surgeries. ![]() |