- Alice , The Sausage by Sophie Jabes
- Mammoth by Eva Baltasar
- The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
- Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou
- Yell,Sam if you still can by Maylis Besserie
- What Darknees was by Inka Parei
- Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran
- Living with our dead by Delphine Horvilleur
I had a quieter August than expected. I have been off work with some problems and only returned this week. I just haven’t been focusing as much as I should. Anyway, I still reviewed 8 books. We started with a girl that just starting eating after a stray comment from her Father a quirky tale. Then, the final part of the Eva Baltasar trilogy shows a young woman heading to the country and trying to have a baby. Then a quirky novella about a teacher that makes uo a folktale that is made up but then fantasy and reality spilll over. A clever collection of vignettes based around the drinks people order and the first book on this blog from Cyprus. Then we have the dying Samuel Beckett in A Paris nursing home. Looking back on his life. Then, another old man in the German summer of 1077 looks back at the post-war years. Then a nanny is stuck in a room we see how she end up there. Finally, we have France’s leading rabbi, looking back at several funeral services she had been involved with. I visited seven countries this month and had one new publisher with Foundry edtions.
Book of the month
I loved the idea behind this book using drinks and mix a history of the drink and the place all set in a hotel in Cyprus. It was my first book from Cyprus. It covered the years after the country divide and the effect on the hotel the locals, and also the guests that come to the hotel and order the drinks.
Non book events
Well, I tried keeping track on Letterbox of what I have watched this month. I started with the Star Trek films; I also watched some seventies B movies, like Death Cruise, a murder mystery about insurance claims. I finished with Frances Ha, which I hadn’t seen before. This last week, we started watching Michael Keatoin in the series Dopesick, about a medication that got America addicted. It is compelling and eye-opening how easily it happened. I probably mention this next month. Amanda and I are halfway through it. The other series we watched was Two Stephen King One The Stand, which I had seen years ago but was interesting. It was the first version. Then we watched The Mist, which was creepy and had a few interesting twists that I didn’t see coming.
Next month
I have five books read for women in translation month to review, and then I will try and read a few chunkier books . I have noticed that most of my reading has been books under 300 pages. I keep buying larger books for quite a while and never get to them. So, I need to start throwing a few in the mix.What are your plans for next month ?
