This was so informative!! Thank you! love the way you organized it.

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. At least 2 of these are through indie publishers (Love in the Big City/Tilted Axis and Your Utopia/Honford Star)😊💛

Hi Katja, I borrowed The Hyunam-dong Bookshop from my library. In Hawaii, we are lucky to have many translated fiction books from Korea and Japan. I can't wait to read it. Aloha friend

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

That's great! I think access to translated fiction is getting better here, and I love it. Happy reading, Marilyn 💛

I'm particularly drawn to the cozy reads. DallerGut Dream Dept Store has such a cool cover! 😍 It reminds me of Lisa Frank, LOL.

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

I can see the Lisa Frank thing. Bright! 💗 I'm starting it today, hopefully it lives up to my expectations🤞

Dallergut sounds absolutely delightful! The Old Woman with the Knife also caught my attention. Glad to see Winter in Sokcho make an appearance! I love that you've spent so much time and effort becoming well-versed in the literature of a single country. It's inspiring and you definitely make me want to pick up more Korean literature!

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, Bethanne! The old woman with the knife has some scenes that feel cinematic. I think how her personal desires began to reshape her could have been explored more, but I'm a fan all the same.

I love that you grouped these by theme. Kim Jiyoung is still waiting for me on my shelf and I am still looking forward to reading it!! But good to know Sahar is one to avoid for a bit or try from a library. I have heard good things about miss kim knows though. All these bookshop books are so cosy. Dallergut dream department store sounds very good. I love that pyschedelic cover. Concerning my daughter made my best books of 2023 list. I am anticipating counsel culture now too! I was so pleasantly surprised by the old woman with the knife and had such a good time with it as well. I think I like elderly main character narratives. I liked pachinko by the author of winter in sokcho and now I need to read this one.

@PageTurnersWithKatja

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Olivia. Concerning My Daughter feels underrated; I was thrilled to see it in your best of 2023. The Woman with the Knife doesn't always get love on booktube, but for me, it ticks a lot of boxes, including older protagonist narrative 😊💛

Katja you deserve more views and subs! I love this video in particular (mostly because I am drawn to Korean books). Also I have the Dallergut Dept Store on my reading list and I hope to read it soon!

@jillywonker

6 ай бұрын

And Winter in Sokcho of course 💗

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I love learning little tidbits of history and culture in Korean literature. I've just read the author's and translator's notes before chapter one of DallerGut; so thoughtful. Here's hoping we both enjoy it 😊💛

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

So good!

I have tried getting more into Asian literature, but every time I end up reading Japanese authors.. This list was very helpful.. As you guessed Born 1982 is the only one here I knew about from before 😅

@PageTurnersWithKatja

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! I hope you enjoy whichever Korean novel you decide to read next 😊

I've added Dallergut to my list 🤞 Thank you for the heads up! I have heard of a couple I would like to pick up - If You Live To One Hundred, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life by Rhee Kun Hoo; Blood of the Old Kings by Kim Sung-il; (maybe) The Healing Season of Pottery (don't remember author)...

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, I'll look those up. Think it was this time last year thar we pondered why it was mostly the traumatic books getting translated. I love that the trend seems to have ended. Lots more feel good titles.

@novelideea

6 ай бұрын

@@PageTurnersWithKatja ‼️❣️❣️‼️

Nice framing of the themes through authors 🥰 I just finished the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, and loved it 💜

@MargaretPinard

6 ай бұрын

Yes! So cozy!!

@MargaretPinard

6 ай бұрын

We should totally discuss!

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

Yay! I don't often do the single book review thing, but after I read it, I just wanted to share it.

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

I'd be up for that. Think Bethanne is reading it soon, too, after her mum's finished.

@MargaretPinard

6 ай бұрын

Ooh! Didn't know that--that would be a big mood lift 🤩to chat with you both @@PageTurnersWithKatja

This is a great list of South Korean possibilities Katja. I have Kim Jiyoung and Concerning my Daughter and am interested in The Old woman With a Knife and Shoko’s Smile. Loved Cursed Bunny and looking forward to her new collection. Also enjoyed Love in the Big City as well as the two Kyung Sook-Shin, I’ve read- including Please Look After Mother with you. I also really enjoyed Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-Nan although Flowers of Mold her earlier Collection wasn’t as successful for me.

@PageTurnersWithKatja

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Jo 😊🙏 You've got such good reads to look forward to! Let me know if you'd like to buddy read Your Utopia. I wish I had Bluebeard's First Wife, but it's Flowers of Mold I picked up on a £2.99 offer a while back 😅. It's been on my TBR for ages. You enjoying Love in the Big City bodes well for me.

@josmith5992

5 ай бұрын

I would have loved to read Your Utopia with you Katja but the friend I buddy read Cursed Bunny with and I are reading it and might be a while before we get our copies.

@PageTurnersWithKatja

5 ай бұрын

@@josmith5992 sounds like a fun time if you've both read through Cursed Bunny. I've got mine pre-ordered as I can't imagine that my local library will have it right away.

Awesome thank you! Can you do the same for Japanese? Oh and maube Russian lit too?

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I can for Japanese fiction. My knowledge of Russian fiction consists of 4 classics, so I may be on the lookout for recommendations in the future 😊

@BooksRebound

6 ай бұрын

@@PageTurnersWithKatja I highly recommend Vita Nostra is you havent already read it. It's incredible and shockingly became my #1 fav book, even more than Malazan. I have a review on my channel too. I really love the Dyachenkos. Their book The Scar is quite awesome too and it's a more traditional fantasy book compared to Vita Nostra. You just gotta get past the first few chapters where the MC is a fucking ASSHOLE before getting cursed and growing as a person. Also you could check out Stanislav Lem. But thats about the extent of my Russian SFF knowledge.

@PageTurnersWithKatja

6 ай бұрын

I almost mentioned VN but think they're Ukrainian and wrote in Russian, and that threw me with categorising . Loved it! I haven't read the sequel which was finally translated last year. Thanks, I hadn't heard of The Scar before, I'll add it to my TBR!