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Impressions of Laura VanArendonk Baugh’s Traditional Japanese Novella Kitsune-Tsuki
Another American author featured as a speaker at the recent virtual World Fantasy Con 2020 is Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and when I saw she had a few books set in Japan, I was intrigued since I love the East Asian fox myth and have written some far less traditional books featuring them myself. The first […]
The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the left column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
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The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the right column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
Sohyeon After Midnight Book Reading Videos and Character Roll-Call
I had some time this weekend to prepare a few videos for everyone to enjoy. The first video is my character roll-call, which I made for my readers who have been struggling to pronounce my characters’ names in a couple of my novels. Character Roll-Call: Then I prepared a three-part series of me reading selections […]
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The Woman Trapped in the Painting – My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox, Part 1
This time around, our new series will focus on Jeongeun and Miran Hong’s My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox (홍정은 & 홍미란의”내 여자친구는 구미호”). The TV show was written by the famous Hong sisters, but the novel was ghost written … Continue reading
Mai’s Dream of the Secret Room – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 4
This time we finish our look at Fuyumi Ono’s horror novel, The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). Chapter 6 begins with another report from Madoka Mori to Shibuya’s research team. They conclude that Mr. Atsugi didn’t leave the house when he disappeared. … Continue reading
A Séance By Candlelight – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 3
This time we continue our look at Fuyumi Ono’s horror novel, The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). Chapter 4 is when things really start to get good. That night at 9PM, everyone gathers in a little room near the dining room, and … Continue reading
The Rambling House & A Few Mysterious Disappearances – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 2
This time we continue our look at Fuyumi Ono’s horror novel, The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). I went back and looked at a few episodes of the anime covering this story arc, and it goes very fast and cuts out a … Continue reading
An Interfaith Team of Exorcists – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 1
Out next book is book 5 of the Japanese horror novel series, Ghost Hunt by Fuyumi Ono, called The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). This book has not been translated into English that I know of, though the series has been made … Continue reading
After Death, Their Souls Turn Into Butterflies – Dark Witch, Part 2
This time we continue our look at a novel from the detective series featuring female coroner Mia Song, Dark Witch by Erica Li Min and Atushuoli (《黑夜女巫》李敏，阿圖說力合著). Chapter 4 is the first glimpse we get of Mia Song, who is … Continue reading
The Estate of Eternal Youth – Dark Witch, Part 1
This time we start a new novel, one of the installments in a detective series about female medical examiner Mia Song. The novel we’re looking at for this series is Dark Witch by Erica Li Min and Atushuoli (《黑夜女巫》李敏，阿圖說力合著), which … Continue reading
Maupassant at the Morgue and a Cat Named Quasimodo – Jin Lee, Part 5
This time we’ll finish up part 3 of Kyung-sook Shin’s historical novel, Jin Lee (신경숙의《리진》). We only got through chapter 1 last time, and there are five more chapters remaining in this section. Chapter 2 is “A Feather Pen and … Continue reading
The Literary Salon in Le Bon Marché Department Store – Jin Lee, Part 4
This week, we’ll finish up volume 1 of Kyung-sook Shin’s historical novel, Jin Lee (신경숙의《리진》) and move on to volume 2 of the book series. One thing of note about East Asian novels is that, unlike in the US where … Continue reading
Dinner at the French Legation with Coq au Vin and Berlioz – Jin Lee, Part 3
Part 2 of Kyung-sook Shin’s historical novel, Jin Lee (신경숙의《리진》) has six chapters and runs for more than 200 pages. The structure of this section is quite a departure from Part 1. Each chapter has a letter from Collin de … Continue reading
