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Book Around the Corner » Novella
3w ago
The Bachelor of Arts by R.K. Narayan. (1937) French title: Le licencié es lettres. I’m happy to participate to the #1937Club hosted by Karen and Simon, especially since I get to share about The Bachelor of Arts by R.K. Narayan, a writer I discovered thanks to Vishy. I’ve already read Swami and Friends and The ..read more
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4M ago
I still have four books read in 2023 and without their billet. So today, I’ll catch up and write about Marzhan, Mon amour by Katja Oskamp, The Sound of Keychains by Philippe Claudel and Treatise on Toleration by Voltaire. I’ve read the Oskamp in the English translation by Jo Heinrich, the others were in French ..read more
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5M ago
The Good Shepherd by Gunnar Gunnarsson. (1936) French title: Le Berger de l’Avent. Translated by Gérard Lemarquois and Maria S. Gunnarsdóttir. Christmas Eve sounds a great day for a billet about The Good Shepherd by Gunnar Gunnarsson. Gunner Gunnarsson (1889-1975) was an Icelandic novelist. He went to university in Copenhagen, became a Danish speaker and ..read more
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5M ago
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge (1973) French title: La couturière. Translated by Françoise Cartano. In English, The Dressmaker is a novella as it’s less than 200 pages long. My copy in French has 294 pages. Hmm. I’ll stick to the original and consider that it qualifies for Novellas in November on top of being my ..read more
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5M ago
November is German Lit Month and Novellas in November #NovNov. I managed to combine the two events with Fred Uhlman, a German who wrote Reunion in English after he emigrated to UK and the classic Chess by Stefan Zweig. I received Story of Tönle by Mario Rigoni Stern through my Kube subscription and although it’s ..read more
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5M ago
Serendipity brought these three books on my To-Be-Reviewed pile at the same time. I read Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery as part of my Sister-In-Law readalong. I picked The Fascination of Evil by Florian Zeller and The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi for Novellas in November. After the Cossery, I read the Zeller because it’s ..read more
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5M ago
The list of novellas I chose for Novellas in November include three Chinese ones and I decided to do a group post. Unfortunately, the Fang Fang is out of print in English and I don’t think that the Mo Yan has been translated into English at all. The Lao She is available in ebook. Let’s ..read more
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5M ago
In the northern hemisphere, autumn has arrived. It’s getting cold, it’s raining and we’ve switched to winter time last weekend. Blankets are back on the sofa, we’ve burnt a few logs in the woodstove and now central heating is on. In other words, it’s perfect time to cozy up at home and read. Lucky bookworm ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Novella
5M ago
Many thanks to Cathy and Rebecca who are organizing November in Novellas once again. While I won’t have time to do the suggested prompts, I dug into the TBR to pick the novellas there. I won’t be able to read them all but I’ll start with the oldest ones on the TBR and so on ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Novella
5M ago
We had picked The Other by Andrée Chedid for our Book Club read in June and I’m slightly late with my billet, as usual. Andrée Chedid (1920-2011) was an Egyptian-French poetess and novelist of Lebanese descent. Like Albert Cossery, she wrote in French. The Other is a novella where an old man, Simm catches a ..read more