Annabel, on her blog, is doing a 20-book TBR for the summer. I would struggle to pick and stick to 20 boks over the next three months. I am just not that sort of reader, so I had a look through my endless piles of TBR books. I buy books all the time as part of my one-day super grand library; well, that’s what I tell myself. So maybe it is time to do a few TBR challenges.
My choices are –
I read this last year but didn’t review it, and I want to read more of Montaigne’s work other than the couple of essays I have read over the years. plus, it has summer in the title
A woman gets over her relationship falling apart in the summer one of the few Elena Ferrante books I haven’t read.
I don’t know much about this, but it is by Christopher Maclehose, Mountain Leopard Press. I trust his judgment on books. It is a road trip in Patagonia
From Seagull Books, Kite is a book that walks the line between fiction and memoir: a relationship spanning over twenty years between two men from the Egyptian-Lebanese group is seen as one looks east, the other looks west.
A variation on Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. I will watch Beckett and then read this; it is a short piece in a trilingual edition here with the French and German versions.Another from Seagull books
Another summer-connected title follows a teenager as he is caught up in events as his world spirals out of control on the last days of his holiday.
One of those books I was reading, put to one side and never got back to, is a spin-off of the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, set in the modern day, a prose poem. Plus I spent a couple of nice summers near the Rhine when I was younger.
A relationship is caught as they never quite get there, but the tension of nearly being together from Balzac. I enjoyed the last book I read by him.
Pushkin’s verse novel has been on my TBR a while, and I keep thinking I need to read more russian works.
Last I thoubng to throw in a book from a new country a book from Nepa that I have had for a good while.
There is a binbgo card for this event here. I think these books could tick a few boxes.
Have you joined this challenge at all ?
I went to Nepal many years ago. It was quite an experience. I don’t think I’ve come across a book by a Nepali in translation before. Adding Song of the Soil to my list.
Don’t think there is that many around
I’m sure you’re right. Thanks for alerting me to this one. I’ll look out for your review.
Ha ha, I suspect that I will be adding to my TBR as you work your way through your list.
I’ve read the Balzac and the Pushkin (though a different translation) but the others are all new to me.
That’s an interesting selection, Stu – Summer of Montaigne sounds fascinating!
I haven’t started with Montaigne but he’s someone I really want to get to know, so I’ll be interested in that gorgeous looking book and Eugene Onegin is an absolute delight, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
What a great selection! Eugene Onegin is one of my favorites so hope you enjoy it. Look forward to your thoughts on all of these so I can expand my TBR. Lol. Reader Lane
Thank you for joining in! Aiming for 10 books is perfectly fine – enjoy.
Nice summer TBR! This one is actually one of my favorites by Balzac.
I hadn’t realized Europa had adapted the A Summer with colelction from the French, nice!
I read Un été avec Rimbaud and really enjoyed it
Great list!
I didn’t know that the books by Antoine Compagnon (A summer with or a winter with) are translated into English. I’ve read his summer with Proust and I’m currently reading a Winter with Matisse.
Ooh, nice! ‘Road trip’ and ‘Patagonia’, perfect combination. And I love the cover of the Handke – and following all the different translators
Look s like a good selection, though the only one I’ve read is Days of Abandonment.