이가원 특: 병렬독서함.MOV

0:00 (Huh?) Oh…annota…

0:01 [Past Me] I made annotations

0:02 [What was the reason?] Why did I annotate it?

0:03 I want to introduce this book to you, but…

0:06 [A case of memory loss] I don't remember it

0:08 [Who are you, and why are you on my bookshelf?]

0:09 I don't even remember when I read this

0:11 [MOV]

0:14 Hello, this is MEOVV's GAWON

0:17 For today's MOV,

0:19 [Finally introducing GAWON's unique parallel reading] we're going to talk

0:20 [Already excited] a bit about books

0:22 I brought some books with me

0:25 Let's spend some time to talk bout them

0:28 [Q. Are you still into parallel reading?] The answer is yes

0:30 [Of course] It's a yes,

0:32 but I've been focusing on one book for the most part

0:36 and progressing from there

0:39 I'll skim through as a preview,

0:42 and if something catches my eye,

0:44 I'll continue on with that book

0:47 [A slight change to reading one book at a time] But it's still a yes

0:48 The book I recently read is…

0:51 The books I finished reading are these two

0:55 [Recently Read Book #1] 'Hunger' by CHOI JIN YOUNG

0:57 This book is quite famous,

1:00 so I've known about it for a while

1:02 I get a lot of book content popping up

1:06 on my algorithm

1:08 [A word-of-mouth book] It was even there,

1:08 so I ended up reading it

1:09 [Recently Read Book #2] This is 'The Path of the Dinosaur's Movement' by KIM HWA JIN

1:12 On my day off,

1:15 I went to Kyobo Book Centre with my sister

1:18 I just wanted to spend a day…

1:22 [A literary girl's day] browsing books and stuff

1:24 So, I went with my sister, browsed around, and bought this book

1:28 [The reason she picked this book] When I got to Kyobo Book Centre,

1:29 there were so many books,

1:31 [Well, it is a bookstore] so I felt so overwhelmed

1:33 I wanted to buy a good one

1:35 Something fun that I'd really enjoy reading

1:37 I wanted to pick the perfect book,

1:39 [Too many books] but there were too many books

1:40 So, inside Kyobo Book Centre,

1:43 I was looking at book content on my phone

1:47 and trying to see which book caught my eye

1:51 [The title alone sounds fun] I saw the title 'The Path of the Dinosaur's Movement'

1:54 [GAWON is a famous dinosaur lover] I love dinosaurs, right?

1:55 (Shy)

1:56 I was like, 'I'm not sure about it, but let's just go for it'

2:00 It's also a novel, which I love

2:01 There was a line that really got to me

2:03 Before I buy a book,

2:05 I read the whole blurb

2:07 [Lost the line that got her] Oh? Where'd it go?

2:08 [Must have migrated with the dinosaurs] Hold on, it disappeared

2:11 It was definitely here...

2:12 [Anyway, it was really there] Okay, skip for now

2:15 [GAWON later found it and sent it] There was a blurb that hit me when I read it

2:19 This book has a strong slice-of-life vibe,

2:23 and the perspective changes in every section

2:26 [The story of four friends] The process of losing a cherished friend

2:30 And while going through it,

2:32 the emotions that were felt

2:35 You can read about it in each person's POV

2:38 I can't tell you what kind of dinosaur

2:39 this dinosaur is,

2:41 [Spoiler alert] but you even get the dinosaur's perspective

2:43 I even enjoyed reading that as well

2:46 There were many cute and relatable lines

2:51 [To sum it up] This group

2:52 consists of people who all kind of write

2:54 So they talk to each other

2:56 about the reason they write

2:58 'I wrote to hold, to leave behind, and to remember'

3:00 'To not forget'

3:02 'To record before I forget'

3:03 'To keep by recording it'

3:05 'I still can't differentiate'

3:07 'between the moments where the lies and the truth'

3:09 'are stuck to each other'

3:11 'A lie is nothing else,'

3:12 'but the act of tricking oneself'

3:14 'It's truly believing that'

3:16 'what I'm saying right now is sincere'

3:18 'Lies come from sincerity'

3:20 These kinds of lines come up throughout the book

3:24 So, even within such an everyday story,

3:28 these thoughts you usually keep to yourself

3:32 pop up from time to time,

3:34 so it was a fun book to read

3:36 [Next is 'Hunger'] And 'Hunger' is

3:38 a love story

3:40 But it's an extremely tragic

3:42 and sad love story

3:44 What struck me the most was…

3:46 After Gu dies,

3:48 Dam becomes determined to eat him

3:53 [Why make such a decision] Gu's dead body

3:55 [Anyone who knows this book? This is scary] That's shocking to say the least

3:57 This story itself

3:59 But as I was reading…

4:00 I knew what the plot was about before I started reading

4:03 By the time I finished reading,

4:04 I was kind of convinced

4:07 It felt like that

4:08 [Somehow, it was convincing] So even that…

4:10 I was shocked I even felt that way

4:13 There were so many lines that resonated with me

4:15 [A book she grew to like as she read it] It's a book I like, one that I grew to like

4:18 But that book is really polarizing

4:21 I know, right…?

4:22 There are a lot of graphic descriptions too

4:24 That's right

4:25 [You either love it or hate it] That's why I'm a bit cautious

4:28 about recommending it to anyone

4:30 But the people who like it

4:31 will really like it

4:34 [Like me] People like me

4:36 Have you read it?

4:37 What did you think?

4:38 [Did not like] It wasn't my cup of tea

4:39 Oh, it wasn't your style?

4:42 ['Hunger'…Don't listen to her…] It's a book you either love or hate

4:44 I personally loved it!

4:47 This book is

4:48 [Parallel Reading Book #1] Oscar Wilde's

4:49 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

4:51 It's a classic

4:52 I haven't gotten far yet

4:54 I didn't even finish Chapter 1

4:55 I don't think I even got halfway through Chapter 1

4:58 [But!] But, it's already

4:59 so much fun

5:01 [Totally my style] I'm slightly in love with it

5:04 It's a book about beauty and desire

5:09 [Basically the author's note section] I haven't even read 20 pages...

5:12 [Undeniably a fun book] But it's definitely fun

5:14 [The book cover is half the battle] And the cover is so pretty

5:16 I got it in the U.S.

5:18 [Introducing the next book] This is another really famous one

5:21 [Parallel Reading Book #2] 'Contradictions' by YANG GUI JA

5:25 I started reading it,

5:27 but due to my parallel reading issue,

5:31 I haven't read it in a while

5:33 [Current parallel reading status] But I'm about a third into it

5:36 It's a really easy read

5:38 It feels like I'm watching a movie

5:39 I'm really enjoying it a lot

5:41 I'm like this with movies too

5:42 There are so many movies I've stopped watching halfway through

5:45 [The Parallel Queen even parallel-watches movies] Like, I'm saving them for later

5:47 It's kind of weird

5:48 There are two male characters in this book

5:52 [Not my style] I don't like either of them

5:54 [Just remembered something brag-worthy] I want to brag about this

5:55 I told you I went to Kyobo Book Centre with my sister, right?

5:57 [A Kyobo Book Centre purchase] I bought these then

5:59 [Flexing her book-decorating stickers] So pretty, right?

6:01 [The bragging ends] That's it

6:03 My standard for picking books is…the cover…

6:06 [As long as it's pretty] I look at the cover

6:08 [The cover is the qualifier] Then I flip it over and read it

6:11 If I like the content, I'll read it

6:13 If not… As I said earlier,

6:16 I get a lot of book-related content that pop up

6:19 Since I save some

6:21 that appear on my feed,

6:22 they just keep popping up on my algorithm

6:24 [Algorithm pick] I discovered many books from that

6:28 (Nods)

6:29 [Next] The books I bought and only admired the covers

6:32 [Unread Book with a Pretty Cover #1] 'Don't Let Your Mood Become Your Attitude' by Lemon Psychology

6:34 [The most eye-catching cover] The title is already intriguing

6:37 [Why she hasn't read it yet…] This was a Hello Kitty special edition

6:41 As soon as I saw it,

6:44 [NARIN even has a Hello Kitty phone case] I thought I should buy it for RIN,

6:47 [Always thinking of MEOVV] so I was gonna buy it for her

6:49 [Got a matching book with NARIN] But I thought I should read it too,

6:52 so I bought two copies

6:53 [Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'] So this book… Like the one I showed earlier,

6:57 [Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'] I bought this together with this

7:00 [Unread Book with a Pretty Cover #2] I went to

7:01 [Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'] a bookstore in the U.S.

7:02 They had all the classics with these kinds of designs

7:06 [A display of the classics with beautiful covers] There was a ton of them

7:08 So out of those…

7:09 I was contemplating, like, 'Which one should I get?'

7:13 And I ended up choosing these two

7:14 [Weight check] But when you pick this one up…

7:17 [Kinda heavy, but it's OK] 'It's a book'

7:19 But this one is like,

7:20 [Heavy like an encyclopedia] 'It's a BOOK'

7:23 [A tad intimidating] I'm sure some people can relate

7:24 [Book thickness = High entry barrier] It's kinda scary and overwhelming

7:27 [Next book] There's a story about why I got this book

7:30 [Been together for the nth year] I bought it when I was a trainee

7:32 As a tiny act of rebellion, RIN and I went

7:36 [Is going to a bookstore an act of rebellion?] to the Kyobo Book Centre near the company

7:40 While browsing, I found this book

7:43 [It's pretty, so it passes] First, it was pretty

7:45 And this book

7:46 [Unread Book with a Pretty Cover #3] is actually written by

7:48 ['PATA' by MUN KA YOUNG] actress MUN KA YOUNG

7:50 [Book twins with NARIN] It looked so pretty and intriguing,

7:52 so we bought it together

7:55 [Still curious for the nth year] But I've only admired the cover

7:57 [Started reading, but…] This is a book I've read a little bit of…

8:01 [Barely Read Book #1] Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

8:05 (Huh?) Oh…annota…

8:06 I made annotations

8:07 [What was the reason?] Why did I annotate it?

8:09 I want to introduce this book to you, but…

8:11 [A case of memory loss] I don't remember it

8:13 [Who are you, and why are you on my bookshelf?]

8:14 I don't even remember when I read this

8:16 It was just there

8:18 [Why she brought it: It was on the bookshelf] But I apparently read it

8:20 So I decided to bring it…

8:22 [@Past_Me] I can't remember what it was about at all

8:26 [Next, Barely Read Book #2] MIN JIN LEE's 'Pachinko'

8:27 I started it earlier this year

8:30 [Recently Read Books] This should actually be in this category,

8:32 but I read so little of it

8:34 [Barely Read Books] That's why it's in this category

8:36 But for this one,

8:37 I managed to get to Chapter 3

8:41 [A pretty thick book] I really worked myself up to start it,

8:44 but…maintaining that mindset…

8:46 [I'm sorry it happened this way…] I guess I couldn't

8:51 [Next, new books on] These are books

8:52 [GAWON's parallel reading list] I recently purchased

8:53 (Noticeably thinner) My recent purchases are all poetry books

8:56 [Introducing her poetry collections next] I've really grown to love poetry books

8:58 I never used to care for it

9:00 I mostly read fun novels instead

9:03 [Became an emotional literary girl] But I've fallen for poetry recently

9:05 [Poetry Collection #1] 'Blank Face' by JANG SEUNG RI

9:07 I got in the mood to read poetry,

9:09 so I looked really hard into it

9:10 Poetry book recommendations

9:12 [Algorithm Recommendation] And this was in there

9:14 On a post I saw on my feed,

9:15 they take a meaningful line and do it like this

9:19 [Meaning a meaningful line is highlighted] So you can get a feel for it

9:22 And it gave me good vibes

9:23 [A feel-good poetry book] So I brought it with me

9:25 What's great about poetry books is…

9:27 They're often nice and thin like this

9:29 [Compared to a thicker novel,] I can carry it around

9:30 [it's less intimidating] without feeling burdened

9:31 [The perks of poetry books] I can read it quickly, feel it quickly,

9:34 and finish it quickly

9:35 [Poetry Collection #2] 'The Definition of Love is a Cat' by IM HYEON WOO

9:37 [The cat poetry book that resonated with this cat] It's incredible

9:38 It's seriously… I started reading this yesterday

9:42 I haven't read much yet,

9:44 but I've annotated a lot already

9:46 [That's how much she loves it] It's just so lovable

9:49 So adorable…

9:50 [The most excited she's been today] And it's a cat, everyone!

9:53 [The Definition of Love = It's me] 'The Definition of Love is a Cat'

9:55 'We should love as much as we can while we're alive'

9:58 'So many stars live on the island with many Camellias'

10:01 'In this place, the stars are inescapable'

10:04 'And as you gaze upon the stars,'

10:06 'falling in love with them'

10:07 'also becomes inescapable'

10:09 'I can cry, and the stars cannot'

10:12 'And yet, it doesn't feel like'

10:14 'those countless stars are lifeless'

10:17 'We should love as much as we can while we're alive'

10:19 'Those stars over there'

10:21 'The many trees'

10:22 'You, me, and the cats too'

10:25 [A cute poem filled with love] Isn't it just so cute?

10:26 It's totally my cup of tea

10:28 [The perfect poetry book for GAWON's taste] I really, really recommend this poetry book

10:32 [Highly recommended from her stack] 'The Definition of Love is a Cat' by IM HYEON WOO

10:34 I want to recommend it

10:35 Poetry books are just full of beautiful lines

10:38 [Addicted to pretty lines] Even when I read novels,

10:39 I'm the type to look

10:42 for pretty lines

10:43 [Poetry is all about those lines] Poetry books are full of those lines

10:48 [Not an ad] A collection of beautiful things

10:50 'The Definition of Love is a Cat'

10:52 While thinking about MEOVV…

10:55 [Read it thinking of MEOVV] If you read it with your love for MEOVV in mind,

10:57 I think it would be really great

10:59 [Lastly, GAWON's reading goal for the year] My reading goal for this year…

11:02 I set it quite realistically

11:04 [This year's goal] To definitely finish at least one book per month

11:08 [Finish reading one book each month] That's the goal

11:09 I did well in January

11:11 The book for January was 'Hunger'

11:14 The book for February was

11:17 (The problematic book) supposed to be this book,

11:18 ['The Path of the Dinosaur's Movement'] but I couldn't finish it

11:20 So I finished it in early March

11:22 [Started falling behind in February] But that means I already failed my goal

11:27 So what I did was…

11:29 If I can't finish one book in a month,

11:33 [Accumulative reading] then the next month,

11:34 including the book I didn't finish the previous month…

11:37 I have to finish it,

11:39 [The path to reading one book at a time] and then read another book…

11:41 That's…my own…

11:43 ruler…rule!

11:45 [Her reading backlog started in March] I'm in trouble this month

11:46 My book for March is this book

11:49 [So thin it's a bit embarrassing] But to count a poetry book as one is a bit…

11:53 [A sudden negotiation attempt] Should we just count this for March?

11:56 [Heheh]

11:57 ['The Picture of Dorian Gray'] I'll finish this first

11:59 What's the date today?

12:00 [Based on the filming date] If I've got a week,

12:04 [A week left until the March deadline] it might be possible

12:05 Then, what should I read next?

12:08 [PAWMPAWM, please give me recs] I want to hear PAWMPAWM's recommendations

12:10 [Two books, including the poetry book] Yeah, so that's the plan for March

12:13 I've set my own reading goal for the year,

12:17 so I'll do my best to see it through

12:20 I think I need to get through this week first

12:23 [Please send unconditional support and praise] I know I can do it

12:25 At the end of the year…

12:26 Whether I've completed this goal or not,

12:29 [Goal completion check] and how it went down…

12:32 [GAWON's Year-End Reading Recap] I'll be sure to update PAWMPAWM

12:34 on those results

12:36 [I believe in myself] I know I'm gonna succeed

12:37 I believe in Future Me

12:39 I feel like I just rambled on about the books

12:42 I'm not sure if any of it made sense

12:45 [A free-spirited intro to today's books] I'm not sure

12:47 if I expressed it well for PAWMPAWM

12:50 Hoping it was relatable,

12:53 I'll come back with

12:55 even better content next time

12:56 [Happy reading, everyone!] Everyone, enjoy your reading!

13:00 Bye!

13:03 [Cookie: Must-Have Reading Items] I had my pencil case with me during the shoot

13:07 [GAWON's What's in My Pouch] This is what I really use

13:09 I've been using it since middle school

13:11 [Full of wear and tear]

13:13 You can see the traces of time

13:15 It's been at my parents' house all along

13:16 But I underline stuff when I read

13:20 I like underlining things,

13:22 but I wanted it to stand out more,

13:25 so I wanted to use a highlighter

13:27 But there were no highlighters in our dorm

13:29 [Self-sufficient] So I brought this from my parents' house today

13:33 These highlighters are 6 years old,

13:35 so I'm not sure if they still work

13:37 [The shabby state of her friends of 6 years] Like this

13:39 When it comes to annotating,

13:41 I match the colors to the book covers

13:43 [Must match the color palette] I wanted to highlight things

13:46 [Color-matching is a must] in a color that matches the cover

13:48 Yeah, so I brought this

13:50 I'll continue to annotate

13:53 and find pretty lines

13:55 and share them with PAWMPAWM

13:57 [Then, goodbye for real now] Bye!