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read.log | Botchan: Why Does Honesty Always Cost Something? Botchan: Why Does Honesty Always Cost Something?There was a stretch when the personality test everyone reached for was the MBTI. It promises to tell you who you are by sorting your traits into a four-letter type. But somewhere along the way, a curious qualifier crept into how people talk about their results: socialized. A "socialized MBTI" versus an "unsocialized" one. It's a small phrase, but i.. 2026. 9. 20.
read.log | Miracles: Does Christianity Still Hold Up in the Age of AI? Miracles: Does Christianity Still Hold Up in the Age of AI?We have moved past the industrial age, through the information age, and now find ourselves living in the age of AI. Technological progress has given us tremendous convenience, but it has also reshaped traditional values along the way. That reshaping has not spared how people regard the Christian faith. It touches those outside the church.. 2026. 9. 10.
read.log | This Might Actually Work Out, Nieun Bookstore: Why We Still Need Paper Books and Neighborhood Bookstores Why We Still Need Paper Books and Neighborhood BookstoresWe live in an age when almost every headline about reading is bad news. The number of people who read books at all keeps shrinking, and the rise of e-books has only accelerated the decline of print. It has also become something close to common sense that books are bought almost exclusively from large online retailers now. All of this raise.. 2026. 8. 20.
read.log | The Standing Before Pain - C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain The Standing Before Pain - C.S. Lewis, The Problem of PainLife does not exempt us from suffering. The world presses in — and the pressure is often real, acute, and personal. When pain becomes acute enough, the questions rise instinctively: Why must we suffer? What does suffering mean? These are not idle philosophical questions. They are the questions of people who have been broken open by the we.. 2026. 6. 11.
[read.log] Books Make Me Who I Am | Hisako Tajiri, Books, a Cat, and My Story Books Make Me Who I Am |Hisako Tajiri, Books, a Cat, and My StoryRegular readers of faith.log will remember Hisako Tajiri's At Daidai Bookshop, which I introduced back in April. Even after writing that piece, I found myself lingering in its atmosphere for days. It was only natural, then, to go looking for more of Tajiri's work — and that search led me to the book I'm introducing today: Books, a .. 2026. 5. 20.
read.log Ⓛ | It's Okay to Stop — Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop and the Exhausted People Around Us A Society That Never Learned to RestThere's a particular kind of tiredness that doesn't go away with sleep. You know the kind. It sits in your chest even on weekends, whispering that you should be doing more — reading more, earning more, becoming more. If you've felt it, you're not alone. And if you live in a city, you've probably stopped questioning it altogether. We have built societies — Seou.. 2026. 3. 20.