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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: Martial Arts
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
Battle at the Southern Outpost – Dragon War in the Wilderness, Part 5
This time I will wrap up our series on Yi Huang’s Dragon War in the Wilderness (黃易的“龍戰在野”) by reviewing a short portion of volume 2. Our story arc with the Turkish army appearing at the southern outpost in the Tianshan … Continue reading
The Southern Outpost at Tianshan – Dragon War in the Wilderness, Part 4
This time I will finish volume 1 of Yi Huang’s Dragon War in the Wilderness (黃易的“龍戰在野”). We pick up where we left off with Longying fighting Can Shichan’s men in a snowy forest. Longying nearly wipes out the whole group … Continue reading
Defense and Attack of the Maiden Oasis – Dragon War in the Wilderness, Part 3
This time we continue reading volume 1 of Yi Huang’s Dragon War in the Wilderness (黃易的“龍戰在野”) . We pick up the action in chapter 6 when Longying and two hundred of his men ride camels out to the Maiden … Continue reading
The Five Oases of the Xueyantuo – Dragon War in the Wilderness, Part 2
In this post we continue reading volume 1 of Yi Huang’s Dragon War in the Wilderness (黃易的“龍戰在野”). Chapter 2 continues the scene we ended with in chapter 1 with Longying in particular waiting for an old friend, Huang Yuanwu, when … Continue reading
Setting Out On the Journey – Dragon War in the Wilderness, Part 1
The new series that I’m starting with this post features Yi Huang’s Dragon War in the Wilderness (黃易的“龍戰在野”). From what I’ve read so far, that reference to dragons isn’t likely to be to some high fantasy monster but an … Continue reading
A Blood-Sucking Male Beauty – The Demon Cat Sword, Part 4
This week we finish reading Japanese historical novel The Demon Cat Sword by Kouichi Matsuoka (松岡弘一の“妖猫剣”). Part 3 is only 7 chapters long and has the provocative title “A Blood-Sucking Male Beauty.” The word here for male beauty is obana … Continue reading
Sumo Wrestling with a Gecko – The Demon Cat Sword, Part 3
This week we continue reading Japanese historical novel The Demon Cat Sword by Kouichi Matsuoka (松岡弘一の“妖猫剣”). I’m falling a little behind on the reading for this, so this post may be a little shorter this time, but I have one … Continue reading
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