Currently reading: Holy Boy by Lee Heejoo, translated by Joheun Lee. Four women kidnap and drug their favorite K-pop idol, giving him amnesia and lock themselves away in an isolated mansion in the forest to obsessively look after him. #BookSky #KoreanLit #WomenInTranslation
We are stoked to share the New York Times review of @jinwoo-park.com’s Oxford Soju Club!
Read the full review here: buff.ly/KNfvP84 or at the link in our bio!
#NYTReview #OxfordSojuClub #KoreanLit #CanLit
Currently reading: Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur. A collection of interconnected ghost stories set at a research center full of haunted objects. #BookSky #KoreanLit #WomenInTranslation
Currently reading: Capitalists Must Starve by Park Seolyeon, translated by Anton Hur. Based on true events, a young woman joins a liberation army and later organizes a factory workers’ strike in 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea. #BookSky #KoreanLit #WomenInTranslation
Currently reading: The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png. To protect her elderly friend, a detective teams up with a self-proclaimed vampire hunter to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at a hospital. #BookSky #KoreanLit #WomenInTranslation
It's a second STAR for LATE TODAY!
⭐ "Marvelous...emotionally urgent...a moving work about a small, essential act of kindness." —Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)
On sale Sept. 23!
#picturebooks #worldkidlit #kidlit #koreanlit
Check out the newest review of @jinwoo-park.com's Oxford Soju Club from Shelf Awareness: buff.ly/Wbi9pwg
#OxfordSojuClub #spynovels #KoreanLit #CanLit
Wavy blue and black feather or fur shapes on an off-white background.
My favorite of the year so far: One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun. Eungyo and Mujae work in a rabbit warren of workshops threatened with demolition. There, people’s shadows are starting to rise away from them. Weird, subtle, unforgettable. #booksky #koreanlit
Currently reading: A Twist of Fate by Se-Ah Jang, translated by S. L. Park. A woman on the run after murdering her abusive boyfriend pretends to be the daughter-in-law of a wealthy family when she finds their abandoned infant grandson on the train. #BookSky #KoreanLit #WomenInTranslation
Currently reading: Red Sword by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur. Enslaved by imperialists and forced to fight enemies on a mysterious white planet, a woman uses her red sword to survive. #BookSky #KoreanLit #WomenInTranslation
Currently reading: A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-ran, translated by Chi-Young Kim. A young woman and a robot horse jockey work together to help a racehorse facing euthanasia run the slowest race of her life. #BookSky #KoreanLit #WomenInTranslation
Memoirs of a Korean Queen by Lady Hyegyeong 200 pages • first pub 1985
#500GreatBooksByWomen
#BookSky #InternationalWomensDay2025 #BookWormSat
💙📚 #KoreanLit #WomenWriting 💡📚 #WomensHistoryMonth
Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Memoirs of a Korean Queen by Lady Hyegyeong 200 pages • first pub 1985 - Memoir of a murderous royal court.
A copy of Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miyee Lee. The book cover has a colourful four storey building with reds, yellows, and blues. People are gathered at the bottom and there's a rainbow over the building where it state "The Dream You Ordered is Sold Out".
I know they say you can't judge a book by its cover, but seeing this cover, you could hardly blame me. Looking forward to reading this one @wildfirebooks.bsky.social
#Fantasy #KoreanFantasy #KoreanLit #Booksky #ReadingCommunity
나도 우리 할머니를 닮아 곱고 질기다
절대 안관두지 절대 포기 안하지
필요하면 퇴각 휴식 하지만 작전상이지
항상 아름다울 거야 징그러울만큼
#poetry #poems #koreanlit #korean
I finished the Vegetarian by Han Gang, now what do I do? Taking suggestions. #KoreanLit
<산책>
손바닥 안에 열이 나고
따듯하다.
당장 할 말이 많아 언제든 튀어나올 것 같은
당신의 태도가 느껴진다.
나는 조용히 또 부산하게 걷고 싶다.
느릿느릿 또 활기차게.
찬 공기에 볼이 탱탱하다.
내손 안의 당신 손이 새삼 반갑다.
#koreanpoetry #korean #contemporarypoetry #koreanlit
