1. Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux 
2. The Blue Soda Siphon by Urs Widmer
3. Let’s go home, son by Ivica Prtenjača
4. Summer fishing in Lapland by Juhani Karila 
5. Blueprint by Thersia Enzensberger 
6. The Oppermanns by Lion Feutchwanger 
7. Anyone who utters a consulting word is a traitor by Alexander Kluge

I managed seven books last month. I started with an affair in France. Through time travel in Switzerland. A family tried to make their way home during the pandemic in Croatia. Then a road trip and chase and a murde with a large dose of myths and magic realism in Lapland. Then, I will be a student at the Bauhaus during the day. Then a Jewish family in Berlin as the Nazis take over. Then, there are 48 stories in tribute to the German Jewish judge Fritz Bauer.

Book of the Month

so many great books but  The Oppermanns is a lovely book as it is from Perseohone. Still, it is also a book that should be more well known as with the work from Kluge I read this is about Germany ten years before Kluge’s work and the dark clouds are just starting to go over the Jewish family as the world they live in slowly changes as the events that would become the Holocaust starts to happen.

Non-book events

Vinyl finds l I managed to get the live version of Flaming Lips Yoshimi battles the pink robots that came out for Black Friday for record store day. I also got the 25th anniversary of the REM up album I brought it on cd 25 years ago but it is one of theirs I have grown to love over the years, so I was pleased to get it on vinyl. I signed up on a black Friday deal to the Paramount app so I watched nearly all of the Star Trek series Strange New World the first captain of the Enterprise, Pike is in the original series, and that is used here as he knows when he is due to die how. They also had Frasier I loved the first episode it has nods to both Frasier and Cheers. I also started the Apple TV show Monarch, a series from their Godzilla universe it has a great turn by Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt who plays the younger version of his father’s character a US officer and founder of the Monarch organisation that monitors these beasts like Godzilla. I love how it is unfolding with past and present mixing. I also watched The Velveteen Rabbit I loved this of drama of a classic book about a boy and his rabbit sad and a new favourite for Christmas. I love kids shows from this time of year, like Box of Delights, which I loved as a kid this is perfect for kids now.

Next months reading

I am on 90 reviews for the year and have read 112 books I hope to get ten reviews done to reach the 100 reviews mark. I am on the verge of 100,000 words on here for this year. I have a number of books I have been sent I want to finish the year out with from some of my favourite presses and all in Translation.