- Eurotrash by Christain Kracht
- A leopard skin hat by Anne Serre
- Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerida
- Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
- Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
- On a woman’s madness by Astrid Roemer
- On the calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
- Small Boats by Vincent Delecroix
Now, this month’s reviews have solely been from the Booker International longlist. I reviewed 8 of the 13 books this month. I start in Switzerland with a SOn and his mother on a journey into their past as they go on a road trip. Then, a friend remembered that it was one of those who must have had some sort of mental illness, but subtle in its narrative style. Then, various females live on the rougher side of Mexico. Then a disabled woman writes erotic tales, and her carer finds out it is her writing these tales and then sees what happens. A couple caught up in an Instagram world of image seeking a way out via politics, but getting more extreme due to it. Then a woman finds herself running out of marriage after just eight days. The first books I have read from Suriname. Then, the first of several books is about a woman stuck in the loop of the same day, a book about being stuck, and the little day-to-day changes of reliving the same day for a year. Then a female coast guard is the scapegoat when a boat sinks in the channel. A heartwrenching tale of immigration. With it being the Booker International longlist, I am on the shadow jury. I won’t pick a book of the month as it isn’t fair; this year’s longlist is a lot more palatable than last year’s, for me.I hope to read the last few books in the first week of April.
Non book moments
I had finished my room this month, which I had been doing for the last couple of months, and am now starting to read more in there and use it a little bit more every week, and thus I am going to get more productive on the blog, I hope. When the room was don I brought two new albums that recently came iut, The Throwing Muse Moonlight and the latest Richard Dawson album I have slowed up on viynl buying as I need to thin my collection out and it is record store day this month and I have a few records I have my eye on from the list coming out. TV-wise, I haven’t watched a series all month. It’s been a lot of old episodes of things like Murder She Wrote, Madame Blanc, The Good ship murders, etc. These are things that I can just watch and not be too invested in. I had a month where I had things going on and just needed to watch this sort of TV.
Month Ahead
I am not bothered about how many books I have read or am going to read each month; these days, it is the quality of the books I read and the journey I end up in them. I’d just like to find a little more time to read. With the clocks moving forward, I think that brightens the nights, my mental health, and the fact that I have time off from work this month, I may read a little more than I have been. I haver brought the EBRD shortlist (That is actually there longlist in a way, they then have a final of a few books and announce a winner this Iist is Eastern European Heavy and there is a couple of books from Croatia that I now I will like and also the excellent Engagement by Ciler Ilhan that I reviewed here and its great see it on a prize list. I won’t be reading them back to back like the Booker International long list, I’ve just finished, I need a little variety, and there are several books I’ve been sent. Plus, at the end of the month, is Simon and Karen’s Year club; this time,e it is 1952, I have seen a few books I will be taking a deeper dive to find some books in the next few days I’m sure there is a Haildor Laxness book among the ones I had first looked at. What are your plans moving forward in April?
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