Showing posts with label korean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label korean. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim



Great book!  I learned more about Korea in this work of fiction than I ever knew before.  I learned about naming ceremonies, Christianity in Korea, traditional upbringing of Korean yangban (aristocratic) families and much more.  I loved the main character and her mother, railed against her father and brother, worried that her husband wouldn't be good enough and so on. You know it's a good story when you care so much about what happens to the characters.
384 pp
Kim F

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Digging to American by Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is one of my all-time favorite authors.  She finds the small things that make each person who they are and she shares them in a way that makes everyone seem like something special, unique and important. 
Kim F