Axie grew up in New Jersey and then moved to California to do her undergraduate studies at the University of California in San Diego. Miss Axie Oh made her debut as an author in 2017 with “Rebel Seoul,” which also won the New Visions Award for science fiction. We had the pleasure of interviewing the writer of this exciting novel. But as fans of K-Pop know, it’s beyond difficult for idols to date. Not only is he a student there, he’s also a member of a popular boy group! Crossing paths once again, Jenny and Jaewoo start to fall in love. It isn’t long before she discovers that Jaewoo is attending the same academy as she is. Three months pass by and Jenny travels to South Korea with her mother. Romantic sparks fly until Jaewoo vanishes and Jenny doesn’t hear from him again. It’s not every day a fan can find a novel that dives into the exhilarating but also dramatic world of K-Pop! Lovers of Korean culture and K-Pop will be excited to know that a book by Axie Oh, an award-winning author AND K-Pop fan, is releasing this week! The book transports readers to Los Angeles and then to Seoul, right into the whirlwind of secret young love and the struggles of growing musical artists.Īs much as XOXO is a love letter to K-pop, it’s also a love letter to the city.”Īxie Oh’s new young adult novel XOXO is about a Korean American cellist named Jenny who falls in love with a K-Pop idol! One day, Jenny runs into the mysterious Jaewoo in her uncle’s karaoke bar.
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What you are going to read is by no means scientifically accurate in every way or a complete truth, but it is one man's reflections on different topics with a pinch of creativity. If you've wondered about these and and many other questions then you're in the right place. What would happen without electricity for a year? What would happen if a modern human was transferred 2000 years from now in history? How would people behave if there were no laws? What would happen to the world if we all stopped spending money? What is the impact of too much information on humans, their depression, and anxiety? Is social media leading society into oblivion & abyss? How would a human child develop without external influence and love? This book is doing exactly that - exploring various questions and hypotheseses about past, present and future world and society we're living in. calories out it’s the hormone levels in your body, specifically insulin and cortisol and how they function in your body to store fat. Today I want to cover the main point of the book or the biggest take away that I think is the most important so that even if you don’t read the book you can still understand it’s version of why obesity happens and you can still apply some of the concepts and principles to your life and that principle is the most important component of weight loss is not calories in vs. It’s a long book, but it’s not a heavy read and although he covers a lot of very well researched scientific concepts that can get complicated, he’s very good at relaying the information in a palpable, interesting and slightly humorous way, which is the reason I prefer this book over other similar books I’ve read. Jason Fung and as the title suggests this book is about obesity, more or less how it happens, the nuances around it and what you can do about. I just finished reading the Obesity Code by Dr. When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. In her stolen free hours, she does something that seems impossible in this place: Coral makes art. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club’s violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.Īmid the polluted landscape, Coral works desperately to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. The SynopsisĪ resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we loveĪ few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. All opinions are my own.Ī mother struggling to save enough money to rescue her child finds an opportunity to change her and her child’s life through her art in the sci-fi dystopian thriller, “Trashlands” by author Alison Stine. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. 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