A short post as I have been busy today put before work today and then at work til ten tonight .I am off this weekend and as I have every second weekend off I like to choose a couple books to try and read this weekend I’m trying a collection of essays and fiction by the great Croat writer Dubravka Ugresic looking forward to this as the lovely Celia Hawksworth has translated it as one of my favourite translators .Then I am off to Asia and a travel memoir from Trish Nicholson about her time teaching in the remote West Speke province as 8 not read a book from Papua New Guinea it is chance to discover this country .
What are your weekend reads ?
I am between books and unable to decide what to pick up next – agony!
Mmm I tend think of what next before I finish last read or can spend ages bit reading books before I get to another
I’m hoping to finish my current read so I can finally get onto something else, probably the biography of Thea Astley I think.
BTW We Aussies would not call Papua New Guinea, Asia. We’d call it Oceania, or Melanesia. The book sounds great though. I hope it’s a good read.
I did debate whether it was that or Asia it sounds great
That brings back memories. Most of my co-students did research there as Basel uni and the Cultural Anthropological musuem are spezialized. If you like this you might enjoy Malinowski’s diary. Also some of Margaret Mead’s books like Growing up in New Guinea.
Must look up those thanks for suggestions
You’re welcome.
You might find The World until Yesterday by Jared Diamond very interesting in this context too.
My weekend read is Draught, a novel by Indonesian author Iwan Simatupang.
Look forward to your review
Short stories….it’s all I seem able to read at the moment.
Some times the way especially if life is busy
Having just finished Music & Literature 6, I’m very keen to try something by UgreÅ¡ić. Hope you enjoy it 🙂
I really enjoyed The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska, set in Papua New Guinea. I also want to read The Crocodile by Vincent Eri, which I believe was the first novel published by a native Papua New Guinean.