I kept going back and forth on the star ratings for the seven novels.... They all seem to fall in the three, three and a half, to four star range. I enjoyed them while I read them, but they didn't stay with me. Listed loosely in the order of what I liked best to what I liked least.
Fiction:
The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being by Slavnikova, Olga; translated from the Russian by Schwartz, Marian; Introduction by Leiderman, Mark
Little Gods by Jin, Meng
Honey, I Killed The Cats by Masłowska, Dorota
The Playground by Shemilt, Jane
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier by Choyce, Lesley
All the Winters After by Halverson, Seré Prince
The Stationery Shop by Kamali, Marjan
Poetry:
Decals: Complete Early Poems by Girondo, Oliverio; translated from the Spanish by Galvin, Rachael and Feinsod, Harris.
This is the only January read that I gave five stars.
Nonfiction:
Not a bad bunch, but all were flawed in one way or another...
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Brand, Stewart
best of the nonfiction bunch
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Larson, Erik
too much stuff about President Wilson's private life
Underland by Macfarlane, Robert
too many expeditions, too much "I"
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Christie, Judy
to much about the authors, really not a book length story here.
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