From the front flap: Ehwa, now a confident young woman, finds herself in the same maddening situation as her mother: waiting for a man. Her mother hopes for the return of her roaming lover, and Ehwa, in turn, gazes up at the same moon as her fiancé Duksam, a farmer who has gone to sea to seek his fortune so that he can marry her. Review: I do honestly want to like The Color … [Read more...] about The Color of Heaven by Kim Dong Hwa: C+
Historical Fiction
The Laughing Cavalier by Baroness Orczy: B
From the back cover: The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes—the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor—and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause. The famous artist Frans Hals also makes an appearance in this historical adventure. Orczy maintains that Hals' celebrated portrait of The Laughing … [Read more...] about The Laughing Cavalier by Baroness Orczy: B
Adolf 5: 1945 and All That Remains by Osamu Tezuka: B+
From the back cover: As American B-29s mercilessly bombard the city of Kobe, childhood friends Adolf Kaufmann and Adolf Kamil are finally reunited. But their love for the same woman threatens to break the last tenuous thread of friendship between them. While Hitler spends his final days in Berlin, far away in Japan, the fate of the documents revealing the secret of his … [Read more...] about Adolf 5: 1945 and All That Remains by Osamu Tezuka: B+
Adolf 4: Days of Infamy by Osamu Tezuka: A
From the back cover: While Adolf Hitler continues to wage war on the world and the Jewish people and Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Japanese reporter Sohei Toge finally falls in love with one of the many women who has fallen for him! Meanwhile, Adolf Kamil, a Jew living in Japan, befriends the Communist son of a Japanese MP in an attempt to deliver the secret documents about … [Read more...] about Adolf 4: Days of Infamy by Osamu Tezuka: A
Adolf 3: The Half-Aryan by Osamu Tezuka: A
From the back cover: Now that the documents revealing Hitler's secret have apparently been destroyed, it seems Japanese reporter Sohei Toge's ordeal is over. But it turns out the Gestapo, not to mention the Japanese police, are still after him! Miss Ogi, his murdered brother's dedicated school teacher, may be Sohei's only hope! What does she know about the fate of those … [Read more...] about Adolf 3: The Half-Aryan by Osamu Tezuka: A