- Overstaying by Ariane Koch
- Spanish Beauty by Esther Garcia Llovet
- The waterfalls of Slunj by Heimito Von Doderer
- Swann’s way by Marcel Proust
- gifted by Suzumi Suzuki
- Far by Rosa Ribas
- Like a sky inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic
Well, February was another slow month of reviewing, and the library is still being done. I am a master of demand avoidance. I have shelves up, a new record stand up, and the bookcase comes next week, so I hope to have the room done in the next two weeks and get a new chair for my room when I see how much room there is. I start with a novel about a stranger over staying his welcome, then the first of two Spanish novels from Foundry editions, the first a hunt for a lighter once owned by one of the Krays. Then a proust like novel about the Austro hungarian empire from the point of view of an English family setting up a factory there. Then I finished Swanns Way but have fallen behind with the second volume of Porust. I love finding out about Marcel and Swann and their summer childhoods. Then a Mother and daughter spend time as the mother dies. Then, the second Spanish Novel and then the last book, a slim volume that is part of the Repulic of Consciousness Prize.
Book od the month
Like a Sky Inside is one of those books you have a feeling about before you read it, just from the blurb. It is going be a book you love, and this was, in fact, one of my favourite books of recent times. Art, family , memories and a night in the Louvre gallery what is not to love !!
Non book events
I haven’t brought many records this year with record store day due and the room being a little bit in Chaos. I watched a BBC series that was on YouTube called STRANGE A EX PREIST FIGHTS THE DEVIL IN modern-day London with Ian Richardson as the local bishop trying to keep all this under wraps. I missed this at the time. I loved most of the things I saw Ian Richardson in; one of those character actors should’ve been better known. I watched Daughters of the Dust, about a group of African Americans living on the American coast and living in their own world. Then I watched one part of the trilogy of films The White and the one with a great twist in the tale. Then Matt and Maura, an old couple, reunited just as Maura is struggling in her marriage. Mtt, a writer, appears. It is a film about what might happen, but it never gets there. It shows how the path we take in life sometimes is right.
Next month
I’ve fallen behind reviewing this year, but once my room is done, I will have more time and be keener to review books. Anyway, the Booker International came out, and since it came out, I have been keener on this year’s list of 13 new writers. New languages to read from a mix of novellas, novels, and short stories are fascinating. I have read one and have two more I am currently reading. I read Solenoid last year. I will be rereading it and reviewing it this time. I need to get back on track with Proust and my classic reading for this year. Also, the EBRD Shortlist is due out near the end of the month. I will be reviewing these books in a solo project and doing the usual shadow booker with the guys I’ve been doing it with for a year. What are your plans for next month? Are you reading any books from the booker list?
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