I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.