The Pantanos

After reading Emmie's review of Crying in H Mart, I was really intrigued and wanted to read the book for myself. To me, it was the perfect combination of a sad story and connection to the popular Korean market that I loved called H Mart. Emmie was certainly correct, this book was truly so well written and has easily placed in my top 3 books. "For 엄마," Zauner starts the book with "For Mom," which is such a great way to start the memoir. She walks the readers through her and her mom's relationship from high school all the way until college and how they didn't maintain a great relationship with each other. Describing all the times she felt like she didn't feel like she belonged anywhere due to her Korean and Caucasian identity. Before Zauner received the devastating news of her mother's terminal pancreatic cancer, she was distant from her family but that quickly changed. After hearing the news, Zauner returned to her family in Oregon to spend time

  I first found this book in my 8th-period art class, Design Thinking. Design Thinking (DT) is a human-based approach to innovation that aims to make creative ideas and business models by focusing on the needs of people. The book teaches you about various techniques and tips for doing design. DT can be used to develop new products, create new services, design new business models, and design social innovations. The book starts off with an analysis of the basics of DT, such as focusing on people from the start and finding lead users, or people that are the first to recognize an innovation trend. DTers are expected to be empathetic toward their product users. Their ideas should be visualized through creative and simple methods.  DT is split up into five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Despite the clearly defined phases, DT is not a linear process. Rather, it is nonlinear, meaning that one can go back and forth along the steps, repeating previous phases as necessary