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Book Review of The Calligrapher's Daughter

The Calligrapher's Daughter
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I really wanted to like this book. It takes place in a foreign country during an historical era (early 1900's), two things I really enjoy in a novel, but after 60 pages I had had enough of the style of writing. I just could not continue reading Korean history (and other things such as childbirth), from a child's viewpoint. It would have been so much more enjoyable if the author had written it in the third person. Just another in a long line of books BADLY in need of an editor with a big, fat, red pencil.