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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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Tag Archives: Historical Fiction
The Woman in White and the Jade Maiden Heart Manual – The Return of Condor Heroes, Vol. 1, Part 3
For my final post covering volume 1 of Jin Yong’s Condor Heroes series story arc Divine Eagle, Heroic Couple (金庸的<<神鵰俠侶>>), we pick up in chapter 5 after Yang Guo has escaped his cruel master at Quanzhen to become a disciple … Continue reading
Magical Bees and the Tomb of the Living Dead – The Return of Condor Heroes, Vol. 1, Part 2
Continuing with the Condor Heroes series story arc Divine Eagle, Heroic Couple (金庸的<<神鵰俠侶>>), we pick up at the end of chapter 2 after the sudden appearance of the main character, Yang Guo. When Yang Guo comes to after fainting, he … Continue reading
The Ominous Calling Card of Nine Bloody Palm Prints – The Return of Condor Heroes, Vol. 1, Part 1
My next selection is the middle story arc from Jin Yong’s popular martial arts series, the Condor Trilogy, which has three main story arcs. The trilogy begins with The Legend of Condor Heroes, then comes The Return of Condor Heroes, … Continue reading
Tangled Relations and Secret Parentage Revealed! – Queen Seondeok, Vol. 2 – Part 3
Continuing with the last part of volume 2 from Eunkyeong Ryu’s series Queen Seondeok (류은경의 “선덕여왕”), I’m going to skip chapter 6, “A Blossoming Flower on the Battlefield,” since it mostly has to do with Deokman and Kim Yusin’s Hwarang … Continue reading
Kim Yushin’s Special Hwarang Squad – Queen Seondeok, Vol. 2 – Part 2
Continuing with more of volume 2 from Eunkyeong Ryu’s series Queen Seondeok (류은경의 “선덕여왕”), we pick up the action with chapter 3, “Yonghwa Hyangdo: Kim Yushin’s Hwarang Squad.” In the first scene, we see Kim Yusin with his Hwarang squad … Continue reading
Slaughter at Yeoraesa Temple and the Search for Munno – Queen Seondeok, Vol. 2 – Part 1
We’re kicking off 2020 by returning to last year’s Korean selection, Eunkyeong Ryu’s Queen Seondeok (류은경의 “선덕여왕”), which is a novelized version of the Korean TV show by the same name. This story comes in a three volume set, and … Continue reading
An Ominous Murder Attempt – Land, Vol.6, Part 6
I’m going to quickly finish up this volume of the second story arc of Kyeongni Park’s Land series (박경리의《토지》) this time. The rest of part 5 has 10 more chapters to review, which is the end of the story arc. … Continue reading
Plans to Leave Home, Plans to Return Home – Land, Vol.6, Part 5
Our final scheduled selection for 2019 is the last volume of the second story arc of Kyeongni Park’s Land series (박경리의《토지》), and it begins in the last few chapters of part 4, “Yongjingcun and Seoul.” Yongjingcun was a city in … Continue reading
Digging Your Grave With A Pearl Oyster Shell – Ten Nights of Dreams, Part 1
The next Japanese language selection I have chosen for this year is Natsume Soseki’s “Ten Nights of Dreams” (夏目漱石の”夢十夜”), which is a short story rather than a novel. All of the dreams are written from the first person perspective and … Continue reading
Resolving the Hard Feelings Over the Concubine Xiang Incident – Princess Returning Pearl: Companion in the World of Mortals, Volume 61, Part 2
In the last half of this series selection, the Princess Returning Pearl novel, 瓊瑤全集的《還珠格格：紅塵作伴》, we pick up the story at chapter 56. Most of the chapters have between three and five scenes. Chapter 56 starts off with Xiao Gezi asking … Continue reading
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