K-Lit Review Contest discussion

* ELIGIBILITY: Open to everyone.

* TOPIC WORKS: 15 works from The Library of Korean Literature, published by Dalkey Archive Press (https://www.goodreads.com/series/1149...)

* SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 21, 2014

* PRIZES:
Grand Prize (1): $500 Amazon.com Gift Card or equivalent
First Prize (1): $300 Amazon.com Gift Card or equivalent
Second Prize (2): $100 Amazon.com Gift Card or equivalent

PS. Both the print and digital books are available to purchase on Amazon.com and the publisher's website.

PS2. How to enter? Post the link to your review on goodreads here as a comment.

PS3. Gerneral Contest Rules: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Here's the link to my review of Park Min-gyu's 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' :)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks for the opportunity to review The Square by Choi In-hun. Here is a link to my review on Goodreads.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Review text:

"This was a book I read when the year was new, and yet moments of the story are still so clear. Though it is ostensibly a story about a mother and a son, it sticks with you like a story drenched in place. The setting is so well-worn and pulled in tight to the plot that I still can't shake the map of where the pains of the young man's growth occurred. There is the small house: the main room set off from the kitchen where discoveries were so often made. Nearby, the house of the neighbor who is in turn both rough and essential. Scattered around, other houses of estranged neighbors -- their roofs useful only to hide letters and search for birds between the layers of straw.

And there is the road. The road down to the main town. Well-worn, well-traveled, and deep set in emotional memory months after reading: we go down the road to search for something. If you are searching for a mirror to help you understand your mother or a friend who has left you behind, Stingray will reflect for you."

Link to review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I posted a review of Ch'oe In-Ho's Another Man's City on GR. I think it violates the rules of the contest on two counts, it is cross-posted on Amazon.com and it is over the 1000 word limit by a couple hundred words. I'm still mentioning it here because I think Another Man's City is one of the very best books in the Dalkey Archive Press LKL series and because it was this contest that pushed me over the line to take on what was for me a pretty difficult reviewing task. Here's the link:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I posted a review of Jung Mi-kyung's A Most Ambiguous Sunday on GR. I cross-posted it on Amazon so I guess it's disqualified like my review of Another Man's City. I mention this review as the previous one because it's this contest that made me read the Dalkey Archive Press LKL books in a serious way and put my thoughts about them into written words. This book and Lee Ki-ho's At Least We Can Apologize are the two most adventurous books in the 15 books that have so far appeared. My personal opinion is that Jung's book is better than Lee's, but even if people won't concede that I would still argue that it is in no way inferior.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

By the way, all ten of the reviews I've written of this series can be seen here on Goodreads :)

I posted a review for Pavane for a Dead Princess. Thank you for the opportunity it was a great read! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This is a review I wrote on Lee Ki-Ho's "At Least We Can Apologize." Cheers!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A review of Choi In-hun's "The Square"

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Mine is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My Son's Girlfriend....

Here's one more: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(At Least We Can Apologize by Lee Ki-ho)

That moment when you realize that you also decided to read and review "At Least We Can Apologize":
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It's nice to see how this odd story appealed to a bunch of us, though.