Hosted by J. Kaye at J. Kaye's Book Blog.
Currently Reading...
Carpentaria by Alexis Smith - an award winning novel by an Aboriginal Australian
Currently Reading...
Carpentaria by Alexis Smith - an award winning novel by an Aboriginal Australian
Ulysses - the Irish one, pray for me.
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Finished this week:
The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Axtaga - a very interesting novel about Basque Spain. I recommend it.
Hard Rain by Janwillem Van De Wetering - a mystery by a Dutch writer, set in Amsterdam. I like the police detective protagonist and I will definitely read more in this series.
Upcoming books:
Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw (2009) Malaysia
Fiction, 343 pages HC; about post-colonial Indonesia. Doris Lessing's recommendation.
And Let the Earth Tremble at its Centers by Gonzalo Celorio (1999) Mexico
Fiction, 152 pages Pb; translated from the Spanish 2009 in, described as "a literary portrait of Mexico City". That's all I know, I just can't resist a lyrical title.
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson (2009) UK
Fiction, 310 pages HC; about the English poet Rupert Brooke.
Nada by Carmen Laforet (1945) Spain
Fiction, 244 pages HC; an award winning book, translated from the Spanish in 2007, about an orphan's life in post civil war Spain.
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Mailbox Monday
Hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page.
In the mail this week:
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal. A LibraryThing Early Reviewers ARC.
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel - an ARC that I did not request.
What did you get at your house this week?
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48 Hour Reading Challenge Wrap-upHosted by Mother Reader.
I read for 8 hours on Friday and have been bedridden with illness ever since.
I did complete a Dutch mystery, Hard Rain by Janwillem Van De Wetering. I enjoyed it very much and have a copy of The Japanese Corpse to enjoy next in this series. I recommend this writer.
I also read 200 pages of Carpentaria, a novel about Aboriginal Australians that won the Miles Franklin Award in Australia. The author, Alexis Wright is Aborginal Australian. I requested this as a purchase at my public library two years ago when it first came out. A year later, after it won the award, they granted my request. It's very good.
I did spend some time leaving comments on other marathoner readers' posts and was very encouraged by those left on mine. Thank you all for those. I'm happy to have been able to read for those first hours.
I've become very debilitated but will post about my reading when I can.
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Tomorrow: 5 winners of Testimony by Anita Shreve will be announced.
