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📚 The story from "Hyunam Dong Bookstore."

Some books don't just serve to tell stories.

But it acts like a place.

The place we went in to sit and rest quietly.

"Hyunam Dong Book Shop" is a book like that.

The story just ran for only 28 pages.

Instead, it made me feel like I was pushing a small wooden door.

Walk into a quiet bookstore in a small alley of the village.

Inside the store, there's a warm smell of coffee.

Mixed with the smell of paper from the pages of the book.

It's a smell that makes the heart slowly relax strangely.

The owner of the shop is "Yong Joo."

She's an ordinary woman.

Not very good at living among people.

Most of her time therefore passed quietly.

As if there was a thin curtain between her and the outside world.

People around them often feel loneliness.

And the wrinkles that radiate from her.

Until sometimes

That silence also made many people dare not approach.

But there's always one place where Yong Ju feels comfortable.

That place is in

"The paper page of the book."

Every time she opens a book,

Another world will slowly open up in front of it.

A world where she can travel far.

Without stepping out of his own seat.

A world where no one decides what she should be.

Yong Joo's dream is therefore very simple.

She wanted to have her own little bookstore.

A store where people can walk in.

Grab a book.

Sip a cup of warm coffee.

And let time pass slowly.

And then that dream came true.

She opened a small bookstore in the village.

Ready to serve smoldering coffee to visitors.

But the truth is not as gorgeous as a dream.

Her bookstore is quiet.

The shopkeeper often sits behind the counter.

With a tired countenance.

So many customers feel uncomfortable.

And gradually disappeared from the store.

As if the silence in Yong Joo's heart

Gradually spreading throughout the store.

Until one day

A customer walked in.

She's not special.

Didn't say anything big.

But she's the only one

That saw the tired eyes of Yong Joo.

And understand it.

Maybe because she herself had walked through the darkness of depression before.

She therefore invited to talk.

Wait to tease

And always warning Song Joo

From a bookstore that used to be silent.

A variety of people started frequenting.

Some people are tired of work.

Some people are lost in life.

Some people are carrying some wounds in their hearts.

And maybe

They didn't come in just to buy books.

But maybe come in for a small place.

That's enough to put your heart to rest for a moment.

Stranger people who never knew each other.

Gradually become part of each other quietly.

Until this little bookstore

Gradually changed.

From a place full of silence, loneliness.

Become a place with people's breath.

And there's warmth inserted in every corner of the store.

✨. Thoughts from books.

Sometimes.

It took us a long time to admit that.

"The answer we've believed in all our lives."

Probably not our answer anymore.

But life never stops in place.

When one day we found a new answer,

We will gradually learn to live with it.

Slowly.

Mildly.

Because the answer to life

Never lasts forever.

It changes over time.

Based on experience

And according to the wounds we gradually learn will coexist with it.

📖. Book line.

Is a warm book.

Glad.

And read strangely comfortably.

It's not trying to teach life seriously.

Instead, gently put your hands on the reader's shoulders.

Like saying

"You're not tired alone."

🌿 Who suits?

Fits people who are traveling on the path of life.

Someone who is chasing a dream.

People who are feeling lost.

Or people who are tired of the world

If one day you feel like the outside world is too chaotic,

Try to stop and rest.

At the "Hyunam Dong Book Store."

Maybe.

This book may not give you the answer to your life.

But some pages in there

Might help keep your heart quiet.

And at some point in life,

Only that.

Well, that might be enough.

# Book review

# Hyunam Dong Book Shop

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