Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

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[douqi]

I finished reading The Little Alpaca, which was delightful and extremely wholesome for a novel that included murder and child neglect. Proper review coming at some point.

Currently reading Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland, which is not c-novel-related at all haha. I'm also wondering how to classify the Chinese translation of a Korean sci-fi novel I've got on my TBR pile.

[geraineon]

Excited for your review~

Oh, Chinese translation of Korean SF sounds interesting. Does it have an English translation? What's the title? Now I'm wondering how they compare.

Haha, initially I was thinking novels translated into CN doesn't count but with all the discussions on translations lately, and reading meta about novels and novel-adjacent things, I'm inclined to just go broader with the community coverage XD

[douqi]

It's The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth by Kim Cho-yeop. I couldn't find an English translation, though this article suggests there are translations into French, Japanese, Russian and Indonesian. The article also says it's been licensed for a drama adaptation, so maybe an English translation will follow.

[geraineon]

Hm, Indonesian. Maybe can find and read that instead. I've not actually read any Indonesian or BM translation of novels before. Have you started reading it?

[douqi]

Not yet! Still trying to figure out where it fits in my overly-engineered reading cycle.