1. Last date in EL Zapotal by Mateo Garcia Elizondo
2. Joseph Walser’s machine by Gonçalo M Tavares 
3. Manual of painting and Caligraphy by Jose Saramago 
4. Un amor by Sara Mesa
5. The implacable order of things by Jose Luis Peixoto
6. The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig 
7. The land at the end of the world by Antonio Lobo Antunes 

It was Spanish and Portuguese lit month, so if you want to put any post in the comment for this post, that would be great. My journey started in Mexico with a man in his last days in a Mexican town. Then, a man tries to get by with his highly routine life as his home town has been invaded. Then, a man paints rich businessmen whilst having an affair with his secretary simultaneously. Then, a woman moves to a rural village in the hinterland.of spain . In order to escape her past. But She struggles to fit in, and things get darker when the house has problems. Then a pair of conjoined twins, and the father makes a deal with the devil. Then, a woman returns to Barcelona years after she left as the Franco years are ending. Then a man scared by war as he tells a woman about his time in Angola.I visited three countries Mexico, Spain and Portugal

Book of the month

It was, again, hard, but I just think Antunes is a special writer whose books are unique in style and voice. This book follows the horrors of the Portuguese involvement in the war in Angola. As a doctor, he saw the worst of the conflict and its impact on the young soldiers and those having to treat them, drawing from his own time in Angola, a Portuguese Vietnam. I have a number of more of his books but I ration them as he is one of my alltiime favourite writers and I don’t want to have none left to read , Have you any writers like that you feel about?

Non book events

Amanda and I had are holiday this month I did a post of this. I maybe taken time post holiday to get back to the blog but I am now back in the groove . We haven’t really got into many television  series this month. But I have been trying to keep my letterbox app up to date I do my goodreads and storygraph . SO I  have tried to get consistent with Lettebox for the films I’ve been seeing so there was a few films I Loved this month the fun Mrs Harris goes to Paris is a film about a cleaner want to by a Dior dress a comedy of class and being true to yourself . Then Iron claw is wrestling film of a group of brothers that wrestled but then died one by one sad and a24 at its best. The I have Jacqui from the blog Jacquiwine to thanks for watching The witch’s mirror a sort Flipped version of the film Rebecca from Mexico. I also was watching the later stages of the European championship I actually watched more matches for this championship than I ever had such a shame England fell at the last post but we had a large chunk of luck to get that far and we now await a post southgate England team.

Next month.

I will be doing books for women in Translation month. I have a few in mind I would do a pic of them but I know what I am like as the month goes on I will shift from here to there  but it will all be female writers in Translation. I have finished a couple of books one a quirky tale of the last days of Samuel Beckett will be my first review for the month. WHat are your plans ?