#20booksofsummer21

Goodbye to 20 Books of Summer and hello to autumn reading plans!

Well, that’s it for another year – 20 Books of Summer ends tomorrow and what a blast it’s been. Although I didn’t finish my challenge this year I am still counting it as a win. I read 17 of my original 20 choices and swapped two books for others. The Anita Brookner I had chosen,…

No 408 And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida Book 18 of #20booksofsummer21

I was reminded that Vendela Vida’s debut novel And Now You Can Go was languishing in the 746 when Susan at A Life in Books recently reviewed Vida’s new novel We Run the Tides, which I thought sounded really interesting. And Now You Can Go explores the emotional fall-out following a traumatic experience, but despite…

Three books for Women in Translation Month #WITMonth.

Little and Fraud, Books 15 and 16 of #20booksofsummer21

Twenty Books of Summer update! #20booksofsummer21

Three Reviews for Spanish Lit Month #spanishlitmonth

Cold Heaven by Brian Moore for #brianmoore100

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses. Book 12 of #20booksofsummer21

From Greece to Glasgow: Catching up with #20booksofsummer21

No 412 Like Life by Lorrie Moore Book 8 of #20booksofsummer21

A character in the opening story of Like Life muses on how lost she feels, wondering ‘How did one get here? How did ones eye-patched, rot-toothed life lead one so cruelly, like a trick, to the middle of the sea?’ It is a question that many of the characters in these perceptive and poignant stories…