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I’m starting ゲームの世界に転生した俺が○○になるまで 1 by 藤原チワ子. Thanks @navi for the recommendation! (and giving me the title in Japanese, it definitely spared me some time while looking for it!)

I’m trying to remember if I ever read an isekai in Japanese before, and nothing comes to mind, so I guess it’s a first? I haven’t been impressed by the Jp crime novels I’ve read so far this year, so maybe it’s time for a change of genre
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#ReadingUpdate I finished 역제안 by 정재환, and I liked every single short story in it!

The ones I loved the most were one about a soldier spying on phone conversations while working in the communication service in the military, and one about a performer hired to play the role of the father in a formal first meeting between two families (in preparation for marriage).

(Btw, is there an English word for 상견례… )

Anyway, it was a really nice read, the 7 short stories were very diverse in topics (there’s even a story about a zombie outbreak) and have an intriguing and engaging plot. It was also not too difficult to read in Korean (though also not the easiest book I read this year).
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The Japanese book I’m going to read next is 真夜中法律事務所 by 五十嵐律人 (Igarashi Ritsuto), a “ghost legal mystery” as advertised on the cover.

I never read this author before, I saw this book in Kyobo bookstore and found it appealing.
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My current Korean read is a collection of short stories, 역제안 by 정재환.

I read and enjoyed the first two stories. The second one has a cool title: 2상한 2야기 (the protagonist sees a lot of things double in the story).

And Korean book means filling my Korean food journal. The first two stories of this collection gave me bulgogi, kimbap, bread and milk and a bottle of soju.

So far, coffee is the winner with 5 entries (counting the number of novels/short stories in which a character drinks coffee, not the number of occurrences in a same story), followed by kimchi (4) and bread (as a generic term to anything you could buy in, say, Paris Baguette) (also 4).
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My next book in Chinese is going to be FIX2 by Taiwanese author Wolf Hsu （臥斧）. I loved the first one, FIX, about authors of crime fiction who didn’t get their own plot right and would even falsely accuse one of their characters to be the culprit.

I hope the second volume will be as good as the first one!
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#ReadingUpdate 流星·蝴蝶·剑 by Gu Long (古龙).

I finished the first volume, so I’m about halfway through I think.

One good thing about reading on 微信读书 is that you get access to other people’s comments, and I’m very grateful for this person who added definitions for a lot of words and expressions

#ReadingUpdate 流星·蝴蝶·剑 by Gu Long (古龙).

I’m 60% into the first volume already, I don’t know how I read it this fast, but it’s so so good!!

At some point the book just becomes impossible to put down, the pace is very fast and the story so exciting! The characters are all so cool too

Even though I’m tempted to just continue the list of books for the Readmoo challenge, I decided to take a break, and read something else.

I’m starting 流星·蝴蝶·剑 by Gu Long (古龙). My first wuxia novel!! (Thanks again @jiewawa for the recommendation!)

Gu Long is a Taiwanese author, but strangely none of his books are available on Readmoo? It was on 微信读书, so I’m reading it in Simplified Chinese.

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I’m starting 十戒 by 夕木春央 (Yūki Haruo), I loved the author’s other novel 方舟, so I decided to give this one a try.

I have a prompt for stories that take place on islands, because it’s the perfect setting for closed circle mysteries, but I hadn’t found any island setting yet. It turns out that “island” is the very first word of 十戒, so I have my first entry for this prompt!

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I forgot to update it here, but the Taiwanese novel I’m reading at the moment is 殺人是件嚴肅的事 by 馬卡. I read a collection of short stories by this author last year, and I really loved it, so I did not hesitate to buy this novel when I saw that it was included in the Readmoo challenge.

I love this one too, but the topics are very dark and the story is a bit depressing. Not really what I was looking for, but it’s a good police procedural.

I’m hoping to finish it this week!
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I finally started 개구리 정원의 살인 by 황정은 (Hwang Jeong-eun)

I just can’t resist a book that has 살인 （homicide, murder） in its title, but the reason why I bought this one is because I liked another book by this author (not the author of One Hundred Shadows, although they’re both called 황정은).

I feel bad, because I ended up putting that book aside (살인 오마카세), but I remember really loving it, it was just not a good reading time for me…
And I feel like I’m going to love 개구리 정원의 살인, well at least, I really enjoy the beginning!
And the chapter pages are beautiful, I love books that have a thoughtful design.
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I’m thinking of making threads for my reading updates, with one thread per book
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I finished chapter 2 of 交錯 by 四弄一號!
I’m really loving it so far, looks like a solid police procedural with a good mystery, and the characters are very interesting, with a lot of background for each of them.

Interestingly, the first and second chapter each contained recaps of the important points discovered by the police in relation to the case. I really helped me go back into the book after a long break during the Seollal holidays.
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I’ve been so busy lately, I have fallen behind with my readings. I still haven’t started my Japanese and Korean novels, and I haven’t touched my current read, 交错, for so long that I will have to skim through the first chapter to refresh my memory before moving on to the second chapter.

Time to catch up!
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I really need to make some progress on 硝子の塔の殺人, I loved it at first, but I lost interest at some point. Because of that, I haven’t been reading in Japanese much lately.

I still have 200 pages to read, my goal is to finish it this week!
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I’m halfway through 異人山 by 高雲章, and I started the third short story in the collection 그날, 서울에서는 무슨 일이.

And I found a second mention of ramyeon in this short story! Good thing I left two pages for ramyeon! (all the others only have one page). I still don’t know how I should write the name of the dish on top of the page. I want it to look good, but I don’t trust myself to do a nice hangeul font

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I can’t believe January is almost over… but at least it has been a good reading month for me .

I’m close to finishing 403小組, 警隊出動!, maybe later today or tomorrow? So it will be 5 books finished in January.
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I’m halfway through 403小組，警隊出動！by 顏瑜, this book is incredible, especially considering it’s a debut novel. It uncovers internal issues within the Taiwanese police system and has a very suspenseful plot too.
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I made some good progress on 밸런스 게임 지옥 (김종일) today, I’ll probably be able to finish it tomorrow!
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I finally started 403小組，警隊出動！by 顏瑜, and I love the beginning!

And I found the expression 焦头烂额/焦頭爛額 jiāo tóu làn è which means “under pressure” (from a heavy workload, etc). It’s an expression I learnt while studying the Archon Quest, and it was part of my Anki new cards from last week!! ✨

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I didn’t have time to do much reading today, but still read some pages of 밸런스 게임 지옥 by 김종일. This book is so great, very fast paced, and there were a couple of unexpected turns of events in the pages I read today!
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