Julia and Victoria grapple with the grotesque narrative choices in Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-young Kim. Julia incorrectly uses the word “epigraph” when she means “epitaph” approximately 25 times. Become a Member ! Shop with us on Bookshop.org ! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph : Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more Mentioned in this episode: Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan Bonus: Weird Short Fiction with Evan James Sheldon Minari (film) Pachinko (TV series) Modern Family by Cheon Myeong-kwan The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez International Booker Prize – Whale Namjoon’s Bookshelf Twitter thread on Whale Aschenputtel - Grimm Fairy Tale version of Cinderella Bakhtin on The Grotesque Recommendations: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Children and Their Cages by Evan James Sheldon Books that inspired Cheon Myeong-kwan's Whale Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Currently Obsessed: Handsome (podcast) Guilty EP by Taemin Marry My Dead Body (TV series) Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber Madewell curvy jeans
