Every Day I Read

53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
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From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life. Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?... Read More
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Every Day I Read

From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life

From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life

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From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life.

Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?

Rarely do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our relationship to the joy of reading. But in this gentle, philosophical collection celebrating books, reading and language, Hwang Bo-reum doesn’t just tell us, but shows us what living a life immersed in reading means.

Every Day I Read provides many quiet moments for introspection and reflection, encouraging book-lovers to explore what reading means to each of us. While this is a book about books, at its heart is an attitude to life, one outside capitalism and climbing the corporate ladder. Readers and non-readers will take away something from it, including a treasure trove of book recommendations blended seamlessly within.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781037200922

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 October 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Contributors:

  • Translated by Shanna Tan
  • Translated by Shanna Tan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Hwang Bo-reum studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. She is the author of the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop (tr. Shanna Tan, Bloomsbury, 2023) and has authored several essay collections: Every Day I Read, Trying Kickboxing for the First Time, The Perfect Distance and Simple Living.

Shanna Tan is a Singaporean translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese into English. She was selected for two emerging literary translator mentorships in 2022, where she was mentored by Anton Hur and Julia Sanches. Her prose translations have appeared in The Southern Review, The Common, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture and more. She is the translator of the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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