Well we’re three months in to 2011 and like last month I ve been very stop start with blog and reading but managed to get these read –

1. A rift in time by Raja shehadeh (Palenstine)
2. Cheating at canasta by William Trevor (Ireland)
3. The tree and other stories by Abdallah al-Nasseur (Saudi Arabia)
4. Monsieur pain bu Roberto Bolano (chile)
5. Blood sister by Alessandro Perissnotto(Italy)
6. Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murkami (Japan)
7. While the women are sleeping by Javier Marias (Spain)
8. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred doblin (Germany)
9. Monsieur Linh and his child by Philipe Claudel (France)
10. The particular sadness of lemon cakes by Amiee Bender(U.S)
11. The possessed by Elif Batumann (turkish/US)

In middle of

1. tigers wife by tea Obert
2. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
3. Ten stories about smoking by Stuart Evers
4. Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras

hope finish these this week then got most of Independent foreignfiction prize longlist to read ,also one from the 12 to watch list a chilean novel and a novel set in cyprus .so with longer nights be reading more hopefully

Year to date –

31 books bit behind my plan for 140 this year but 2 more than this time last year so doing well .

Favourite –

A book I waited to get my hands on and was happy I did !