The BumbleRabbit Archives

Good morning, Erin. Last weekend, my grandmother wanted me to go through my late grandfather’s bookshelf and take any books I thought I might be interested in. My grandfather was an avid reader with a pretty varied range of interests, though I think she asked me because so many of his books were action-packed crime novels—or, as she would describe them, “man books”—and, being more or less the only gent in our group, and I was obviously the first thought for who might want to give them a new home.  Now, to what I’m sure is your great surprise, action-y/crime-y stuff isn’t my go-to genre (though I certainly don’t not enjoy a action-packed crime story), so I didn’t wind up taking any of those novels, but I certainly did take some others: four volumes of a pictorial history of World War II, a novella about 1960s Korea, an academic paper my grandfather was apparently using to help him take a run at decrypting the Voynich manuscript (including his handwritten notes), and, most significa...

Good morning, Erin. Catching up on the latest volumes of Rent-a-Girlfriend made me think of you: …because of that time you told me you got into a relationship just to know what a breakup was like? (You remember: we were talking about Hee-do in Twenty-Five, Twenty-One .) I think that’s what popped into my head before my brain even registered what the line meant for the story.  But, importantly, what’s generally associated with breakups? Very good, Erin: bad memories—the kinds one might even want to erase, you could say.  Which brings us neatly along to the subject of today’s letter: Bad-Memory Eraser , a show about an ex-tennis prodigy whose life has gone awry for the last 15 years…until, in a total coincidence, he receives a surgical procedure to erase all his painful memories after a near-fatal concussion—a procedure that not only succeeds in entirely changing his demeanor but reunites him with his long-lost childhood love. …or does it? Well, stick around to find out, seonba...