September 2021

A mixed bag for September. Having eye problems so not reading much at night. (Surgery Scheduled for late Oct-early Nov.)

Fiction:

Slipping by Mohamed Kheir; translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger

The Last Debutantes by Georgie Blalock 

 Gossipy London on the eve of WW2
Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi; translated from the Spanish by  Alfred J. MacAdam
Monkey Hunting by Cristina García
The Island  by Victoria Hislop

 Life in a Greek (Crete) leper colony
Indiana, Indiana by Laird Hunt
The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue

Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel
 Meh. Advance Review Copy via LibraryThing

Nonfiction:
Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier by Richard Cahan

 Didn't care much for this collection.

Europe in Sepia by Dubravka Ugrešić: translated from the Croation by  David Williams

 Essays

The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine by Robin Clifford Wood 

  Liked the biographical part about Rachel Field; did not like the Robin Wood memoir part written as letters to Field.

Far Away from Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman In Progress by Vanessa Baden Kelly
 Essays to make you think. Advance Review Copy via LibraryThing

Online:

Mancala, the National Game of Africa by Stewart Culin 

 If one can get past the notion in the title that "Africa" is a nation, this is an interesting study of a game that has (and was in 1894 when this was written) a distribution far wider than Africa.

The History of Coffee in France by Sue Aran