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BOOKS JUST READ
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FICTION
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MYSTERY
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NONFICTION
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For the first 2 titles, click on the covers to access my review.
My review for Are We French Yet? will be live on February 6.
But I can already tell you my
VERDICT: Nice collections of funny and culturally aware vignettes highlighting how life can be enriched by being familiar with two cultures
Come back on January 28 to enter the giveaway!
CURRENTLY READING
FICTION
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CLASSIC
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AUDIO
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The Goose Fritz:
Two years ago, I was stunned by the quality of Sergei Lebedev’s writing in Oblivion. So I HAD to try his upcoming one (March 19). I just started. It’s related to Russian history.
Don Quixote:
Continuing to thoroughly enjoying this classic. Quite hilarious!
The Moonstone:
And still listening to this classic – 22 hours in audio. It really helps that the edition I chose has a cast of different narrators, it makes it easier to follow the different levels of the story. I think I know what’s going on with this mysterious precious stone, but I may be totally wrong!
BOOKS UP NEXT
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The Library of Lost and Found
“When Martha discovers a clue within a book that her grandmother may still be alive, she becomes determined to discover the truth. As she delves deeper into Zelda’s past, she unwittingly reveals a family secret that will change her life forever”.
Books? Library? Clues? I’m in!
By the author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
A Deadly Affection:
Another book received during BEA in Chicago (2016!) that I have not read yet…
“In 1907 New York, a psychiatrist, Dr Genevieve Summerford, must prove her patient’s innocence…or risk being implicated in a shocking murder”. Should be good.
HHhH
“A seemingly effortlessly blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Laurent Binet’s remarkable imagination, HHhH—an international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman—is a work at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing, a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history”.
About time to read/listen to this book. I had so loved The Seventh Function of Language
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I wish I could get through “Don Quixote”, but I’ve only been able to make it about 400 pages in before it started feeling to redundant. Glad you are enjoying it though. Looking forward to what you think of “The Library of Lost and Found.” It sounds really interesting. Here is my WWW: https://greatmorrisonmigration.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/www-wednesdays-january-23-2019/
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I just DNFed Berlin Alexanderplatz, so I hope I can persevere with Don Quixote. At least it’s fun and easy to understand – which Alfred Doblin is NOT!!
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Good to know, as I have never attemped Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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To be honest, it’s a read-along with NYRB (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18638036-berlin-alexanderplatz-by-alfred-doblin), and some readers are persevering. Some are done and loved it. Tough ride though
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You have some fascinating looking books on your list! I read Laurent Gaude’s Hell’s Gate a few years back and described it as ‘a strangely unnerving little book’. I’m glad you’re enjoying The Moonstone. I read it quite a few years ago and remember being surprised by its humour as much as anything else plus how it introduces many elements – clues, red herrings, disguises – which have since become familiar in detective fiction. Talking of audiobooks, I’ve had HHhH on my wishlist for ages and I’m now wondering if an audio version might be the answer as I struggled a bit with The Seventh Function of Language. I wasn’t sure if I was quite clever enough or knowledgeable enough about linguistic theory to get all the jokes 🙂
Here’s my WWW link: https://whatcathyreadnext.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/www-wednesdays-23rd-january-19/
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Yes, Gaudé’s books are haunting.
Wilkie Collins is so essential. I think I read that The Woman in White (which I enjoyed a lot) is one of the first gothic novels.
I actually think it The Seventh Function of Language would be more difficult in audio, there’s so much in there, I think you need time to reread some passages and think. I was fortunate to be fascinated by linguistics back then, so I read a lot of books he mentions. We’ll see if HHhH works in audio for me
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I like the sound of The Library of Lost and Found. Enjoy your reading, and here’s MY WWW POST
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yes, I hope it’s a good one
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Oooh I like the look of A deadly Affection will have to check it out!! Here is my WWW http://zooloosbookdiary.co.uk/www-wednesdays-23th-janaury-2019-www
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am eager to get finally into it! Working hard at de-dusting my books, lol
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Thank you for the recommendation of Sergei Lebedev. Must read both.
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Yes, amazing author! Powerful stuff!
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I also like the sound of that Library of Lost and Found book!
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I hope it’s as good as the previous book
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The last book I finished was Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala. Currently I am reading The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin and it is sooo good. Next up is The Old Boys by William Trevor. I thought HhHH was surprising and good. My latest review on the blog: My Kind of Girl: http://keepthewisdom.blogspot.com/2019/01/my-kind-of-girl.html
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Huh, ANOTHER book with that title, there are so many. I actually even had to translate one in French. It’s romantic suspense, a genre I would not pick for reading, but I actually thought it was excellent: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37884231-speak-no-evil?from_search=true.
I’m curious to see what you will think of The Old Boys.
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