2020 World of Reading
Sunday, May 05, 2019
Read in April
No real duds for April and some excellent:
Fiction (in most liked to least liked order):
These two got 5 stars:
Everything Under by Johnson, Dais
Murmur by Eaves, Will
Four stars for these:
Waiting for Bojangles by Bourdeaut, Olivier; translated from the French by Kramer, Regan
Arturo's Island: A Novel by Morante, Elsa; translated from the Italian by Goldstein, Ann
Little Faith by Butler, Nickolas
Virgil Wander by Enger, Leif
Three+ stars for these:
The Winter Soldier by Mason, Daniel
The Shape of the Ruins by Vásquez, Juan Gabriel; translated from the Spanish by McLean, Anne
Three stars for this:
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #2)by Yu, Ovidia
OK, but not a series I want to follow
Nonfiction so diverse that they can't be listed by preference. I am glad I read them:
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Taylor, Yuval
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Blom, Philipp
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Reichl, Ruth
And from my online reading:
A gender fight over an Italian dish by Stefania D'Ignoti
Labels:
bio & memoir,
food,
French Lit,
history,
Italian Lit,
mysteries & spies,
Spanish Lit
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