July (fourth week) 2018 Reads

Hot and humid this week so only outings were to the Y, some food shopping, and a successful library trip.

Lots of reading "in progress" but only finished to short novels.

This week the "Deal Me In" card is the Three of Hearts; the selection is  Sleeping where Jean Seberg Slept by Katherine Karlin (in Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest)

from the library...

Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos; translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos; translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

July (third week) 2018 Reads & Day Trips

Beautiful weather for outings this week.
Wednesday - Picnic & Swim - Chatfield Hollow State Park, Killingworth CT
  Followed by ice cream at HK Dairy Barn, 986 Killingworth Rd (Rt 81), Higganum, CT
Friday - Picnic - Indian Well State Park, Shelton, CT Sandwiches from See More Sandwich Shoppe, 130 New Haven Road (Rt 67), Seymour, Ct. 
 Ice cream later at Whittemore Ice Cream, 114 So. Main (Rt. 115), Seymour, Ct.
Saturday - Lunch and walk at Lavender Pond Farm, Killingworth, CT.

Also, a good reading week...
  but not for writing...
This week the "Deal Me In" card is the Ten of Hearts; the selection is Strava by Steven Hayward (in Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest).

from the library...

A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas; translated from the Hungarian by Ivan Sanders and Imre Goldstein

The Hare by César Aira; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor


An Invisible Country by Stephan Wackwitz; translated from the German by Stephen Lehmann

from my shelves...
  
The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion
Advance review copy. I choose not to review.

July (second week) 2018 Reads

A slow week for everything...

This week the "Deal Me In" card is the Jack of Spades; the story is The brown dog and the yellow flower from China by Nicolas Ancion; translated from the French by Marlon Jones (in Best European fiction 2015) 

from the library...

Learning to swim: and Other Stories by Graham Swift 

from my shelves... 

Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić; translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams

July (first week) Reads

No day trips during the beastly heat wave--just a quick trip to the library.

This week the "Deal Me In" card is the Three of Diamonds; the story is De Amicitia (in Orientations by W Somerset Maugham)

Online... 

The Guardian's Poem of the week: Typewriter by Matthew Francis 
Loved the poem; the commentary (by Carol Rumens) following was OK even if it did remind me of those dreary lit classes where we picked at a writing until it was completely dead. 

'My daring grandfather took a bit of East Berlin for himself' by Elaine Chong
The story of  the Treehouse on the Wall, das Baumhaus an der Mauer.

from Project Gutenberg... 


Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde by Don Watson
Published in 1954 by the Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado
Many photographs. I think I used this as a source for one of my junior high term papers.




from the library...

Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays by Péter Nádas; translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein

 from my shelves... 

Just Call Me Superhero by Alina Bronsky; translated from the German by Tim Mohr 

Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono; translated from the Japanese by Angus Turvill 

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García