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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