In today’s episode, we are joined by the lovely Lois to talk about our first book club pick: The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun. This eco-thriller is translated from Korean and follows a woman who works at a company specialising in ‘disaster tourism packages’.
Content warnings for discussions of sexual assault/harrasment in reference to the book.
Book club discussion starts at 23:31
Our overall thoughts and ratings
- Do we get frustrated with Yona’s apathetic tone?
- Discussion about sexual harassment working in an all-male office, and the ‘Angry Black Woman’ stereotype
- Do we think the tone of the book changed at all during translation?
- Was it weird to read about travel and tourism during Covid?
- What did we think of the ironic ending?
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Books mentioned:
- The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-Eun
- Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
- Wilder Girls - Rory Powers
- The Billionaire Murders - Kevin Donovan
- The Shadows - Alex North
- Out of the Woods - Luke Turner
- Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
- The Stonewall Reader
- Pie in the Sky - Remy Lai
- An Ordinary Wonder - Buki Papillon
- Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
- The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
- Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
- The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
- The Girls I’ve Been - Tess Sharpe
- How to Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Adventures of a Young Naturalist - David Attenborough
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
- Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
- The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
- Happy - Fearne Cotton