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Hello everyone, it’s Christmas week! Happy holidays to you all. The book hauls keep coming and I’m nowhere near caught up just yet 😬🤷🏼‍♀️ Oh well! 🤣 Stranger Things Happen is the first collection of short stories by Kelly Link. It takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange and wonderful territory. For example, a librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses and a dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Sounds good to me! This stunning cover of Beasts Of A Little Land totally caught my eye. It’s described as an epic story of love, war and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement. It follows the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter in 1917 deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea. Finally, The Sad Part Was is the latest acquisition in my @tiltedaxisbooks collection. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul, this is a collection of witty, postmodern stories offering an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Have I tempted you to pick any up? Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a lovely week everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagramuk #scottishbookstagrammer #morebooksplease📚 #shortstorycollection📝 #strangerthingshappen #kellylink #beastsofalittleland #juheakim #thesadpartwas #prabdayoon #muipoopoksakul #readingtranslatedliterature #booksimexcitedabout https://www.instagram.com/p/CmXEdY6Lipi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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💐🐅 Book Tour Stop 💐🐅 Thank you to @bibliolifestyle for having me on the Beasts of A Little Land tour also thanks to @eccobooks and @juhea_writes for the gifted copy! Pub date is December 7, 2021. Don’t forget to add this to your TBR! Synopsis: An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter. In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected—and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century. In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver’s courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status. When she befriends an orphan boy named JungHo, who scrapes together a living begging on the streets of Seoul, they form a deep friendship. As they come of age, JungHo is swept up in the revolutionary fight for independence, and Jade becomes a sought-after performer with a new romantic prospect of noble birth. Soon Jade must decide whether she will risk everything for the one who would do the same for her. From the perfumed chambers of a courtesan school in Pyongyang to the glamorous cafes of a modernizing Seoul and the boreal forests of Manchuria, where battles rage, Juhea Kim’s unforgettable characters forge their own destinies as they wager their nation’s. Immersive and elegant, Beasts of a Little Land unveils a world where friends become enemies, enemies become saviors, heroes are persecuted, and beasts take many shapes. #beastsofalittleland #juheakim #bibliolifestyle #bookstagram #alicehenderson #bibliolifestyle #booktour #bookfeature #bookishladiesclub #bookingtogether #talkinglit #algorithmassassins #casuallybookish #bookstagrammer #bookcommunity #bookphotography #paperbackrelease #igreads #mustread    https://www.instagram.com/p/CVSkvW4r8_Q/?utm_medium=tumblr