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This is a book for Japanese martial arts lovers like me. Every fight is described in realistic detail so I can ‘see’ every fighting...

I binge watched the new Shogun series over the past week. We were on a ski trip to Red Mountain in Rossland BC so we had plenty of time...

Maybe in Another Life: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. "A breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she...

Welcome to My Blog! Book Reviews, Japan, Travels, Stuff I'm C.R. Fladmark , and I wrote The Gatekeeper's Son and The Fallen Gatekeepers...

The Fallen Gatekeepers delves a bit more into ancient gateways where shaman cross over to worship the deities in Shoko's world. It...

On my many many visits to the Izumo shrine, it was easy to imagine what it would've been like back then because really, it hasn't changed...

When I set about writing the action scenes for The Gatekeeper's Son, I already knew the fighting style I wanted for Junya. I'd seen The...