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ng of their decisions later in the book we get some of anna karenina s own writing a work that s briefly alluded to in tolstoy s novel it s all very fun he mixing of fiction and reality the glimpses into the beginnings of revolution and the plot that involves the fate of anna s portrait a plot that brings the novel to a satisfying close the years by annie ernaux translated by alison strayer was my next book the cover here is from the u s edition but i actually read the british fitzcarraldo version which i bought in rome a year ago sad sigh of regret since i was supposed to go to rome again this year but couldn t this is my second ernaux novel this year after reading a girl s story this spring i love her writing the years is a sort of autobiography except that ernaux never uses i but instead tells the story using we and us as though speaking for her generation she starts with her earliest years as a child in world war ii moves through her schooling in the 50s and 60s into married life raising children getting divorced figuring out new ways to live all along she writes political and cultural history bringing in elections protests technology music television she uses photographs as starting points to remember who she was and what she experienced at different points along the way she writes about memory and writing itself interrogating the very project she s undertaken the book isn t that long but ernaux manages to tell her own story and the story of her world in a way that feels full and rich capturing the vast changes that took place over 60 years a girl s story if you re interested in reading more ernaux focuses on the summer of 1958 when ernaux was 18 and left home to become a sort of camp counselor it s similar to the years in tone and style but focuses on a shorter period and looks closely at her early sexual experiences it also is about time writing and memory and is perhaps even more meditative and philosophical than the years lastly i read celestial bodies by jokha alharthi translated by marilyn booth this won the man booker international prize last year it s the first novel written in arabic to win this prize and the first book by a female omani writer to be translated into english it s a family saga complete with a family tree in the beginning there are lots of characters and i found the family tree useful but it s not a long book a long family saga is not really my thing and it s not hard to keep track of everyone it s set in the small omani village of al awafi and tells the story of three sisters and their fates bringing in stories of their extended families and their slaves servants the sisters lives are defined by marriage two of them following social expectations placed on them and one rebelling each of them tries in their different ways to reconcile their own desires with the roles given to them also important is abdallah husband of one of the sisters most of the novel is in third person switching from perspective to perspective but his sections are told in the first person they describe a life shaped by a cruel father and thwarted love the characters around the main ones their parents grandparents in laws children servants are given their own stories their moments in the spotlight so we get a full picture of village life this is another story of cultural change as the generations approach love marriage and village vs city life in different ways slave families are freed children move to the city couples divorce so much changes but each generation is defined by its struggle to shape their lives around love it s an absorbing novel as well as for international readers a valuable glimpse into omani life i m not sure what i ll read next for women in translation month at the moment i m reading deborah levy s things i don t want to know because it s exactly what i m in the mood for but after that i think i ll return to a work in translation which one it will be who knows 1 comment filed under books tuesday july 28 2020 3 56 pm the booker prize longlist is here a few years ago i spent a lot of time in august and september reading through the booker longlist with a group of online friends as a shadow panel we read discussed and picked our winner and it was a ton of fun especially our discussions we all got tired of the endeavor eventually but it was great fun for a couple years these days i and other book twitter friends are more excited about the booker international prize as those lists tend to be more surprising and varied and just generally more interesting it s still fun to follow the main prize though here are the books along with a few thoughts about them the new wilderness by diane cook i hadn t heard of this but it s now on my tbr this mournable body by tsitsi dangarembga i was vaguely aware of this book it s published by graywolf and i pay attention to what they publish but this hadn t looked at this one closely it s described as a searing novel about the obstacles facing women in zimbabwe by one of the country s most notable authors burnt sugar by avni doshi i put this on my list the publisher says it s for fans of jenny offill and deborah levy and if that s true i will like it who they was by gabriel krauze i hadn t heard of this one either it doesn t look like it s available in the u s the mirror the light by hilary mantel i read the first book in this trilogy and i admired it but i wasn t inspired to read further hilary mantel is great yes but i m tired of seeing the same names on this list apeirogon by colum mccann not a fan i read transatlantic and it was fine but not terribly exciting i ve also heard mccann has some metoo problems so i m avoiding him the shadow king by maaza mengiste wasn t aware of this one here s the description a gripping novel set during mussolini s 1935 invasion of ethiopia the shadow king takes us back to the first real conflict of world war ii casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record such a fun age by kiley reid i listened to this on audio and it was great rick read and liked it as well it s an engaging story about parenting and nannies and race and white people who royally mess things up real life by brandon taylor i read this one a month or so ago and loved it more thoughts here redhead by the side of the road by anne tyler why anne tyler i don t get it she s a solid novelist and i ve read maybe two of her books and they were fine but they aren t terribly exciting she s been longlisted for the booker twice and i just don t think her books are interesting enough for a major prize shuggie bain by douglas stuart sounds interesting shuggie bain is the unforgettable story of young hugh shuggie bain a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run down public housing in glasgow scotland love and other thought experiments by sophie ward i don t know what to make of this one i love philosophical novels but this one involves an ant crawling into someone s eye and getting stuck there intriguing and also gross how much of these hills is gold by c pam zhang i have this one on audio and hope to read it soon i ve heard amazing things any plans to read any of these 4 comments filed under books thursday july 23 2020 4 15 pm transformational books updated back in 2012 i made a list of transformational books which i defined as books that have changed my idea of what it s possible to write about and how it s possible to write these are books that excite me and make me want to share them people who love some of these books are people whose taste i m likely to trust that was eight years ago so i thought it would be fun to see what books i want to add to the list after eight more years of reading first some of the books on my first list strike me as strange choices now was i really that influenced by william james s the varieties of religious experience or dashiell hammett s the glass key looking back on it now i d say no there are others on there i haven t thought about much over the last eight years the quest for corvo american primitive but it s a long list and most of the rest really did stay with me as books that have changed how i think so here are some books i d like to add perhaps in 2028 i ll take another look back and assess my previous list was looking back at my whole adult reading life and this list is only from the last eight years so i may end up questioning even more of my decisions since they are more recent having many years of perspective is useful but i m not going to wait around for time to pass a couple quick observations about how this list is different from my previous one for one this list is markedly less white i used to read mostly white authors and i no longer do and obviously that makes a difference i also have more books in translation here than i did last time reading books in translation is a newer passion these are roughly in the order i read them i looked through my librarything catalog year by year to remind myself of what i ve read phillip lopate to show and to tell the craft of literary nonfiction rachel cusk a life s work on becoming a mother vivian gornick fierce attachments jesmyn ward salvage the bones eula biss on immunity jenny offill dept of speculation james baldwin notes of a native son fran ross oreo heidi julavits the folded clock sarah manguso ongoingness the end of a diary maggie nelson the argonauts claudia rankine citizen an american lyric paul beatty the sellout karl ove knausgaard my struggle book 1 lina meruane seeing red marie ndiaye ladivine maggie nelson the red parts myriam gurba mean tressie mcmillan cottom thick and other essays valeria luiselli tell me how it ends an essay in 40 questions maggie o farrell i am i am i am carmen maria machado in the dream house lucy ellmann ducks newburyport anne boyer the undying kate zambreno drifts ariana harwicz die my love leave a comment filed under books friday july 17 2020 3 35 pm 5 great new nonfiction books book riot here s my latest post on book riot i ve been on the hunt for great new nonfiction particularly books that mix genres in some way i especially love books that use memoir as a starting point to explore the larger world the books i ve found below combine memoir with history travel philosophy literary criticism politics religion and more through these books you can learn about lighthouses harvesting race theory rereading and the cultural importance of toni morrison check out the list and see if one of these books catches your eye on lighthouses by jazmina barrera translated by christina macsweeney this is a book about lighthouses but also about travel isolation time history and collecting jazmina barrera takes readers on a tour of the lighthouses she has visited charting their history traditions technologies and future she contemplates famous literary depictions of lighthouses and what it s like to be a lighthouse keeper the book describes barrera s travels and the nature of her obsession and also contemplates the many things lighthouses signify and represent it s a meditative mix of ideas emotions and observations barrera s writing is clear and evocative and the book s meandering form is a perfect way to capture the dangerous spaces where sea and land meet the toni morrison book club by juda bennett winnifred brown glaude cassandra jackson and piper kendrix williams four friends who love toni morrison collaborated on this mix of memoir and literary criticism the friends come from various backgrounds three are black one white one is gay one an immigrant the book uses secrets from the authors lives some large some small as a springboard for each author to dive into personal stories that they relate to one of morrison s novels the novels help illuminate their lives and their lives illuminate the novels the authors effectively balance memoir and criticism to keep their work accessible to those who haven t read all or even any of morrison s work the result is a moving memorable tribute to the power of morrison s writing unfinished business notes of a chronic re reader by vivian gornick love to read about books unfinished business is one of the best meditations on books and reading i ve ever come across vivian gornick uses books to chart how she has changed over the years she rereads some of her favorites including works by d h lawrence colette marguerite duras doris lessing natalia ginzburg and others and contemplates the new meanings the books have accumulated she writes about her life with warmth and verve and her stories will fascinate whether you know anything about gornick or not her insights into literature are rich and feel honest and hard earned gornick is a captivating writer her energetic prose style combined with sharp intelligence years of wisdom make for a wonderful read american harvest god country and farming in the heartland by marie mutsuki mockett marie mutsuki mockett grew up in california but her family has owned a farm in nebraska for generations her family s harvester invited her to join his team as they travel from texas north following the ripening wheat she wants to understand cultural differences between her secular multi cultural organic food loving coastal friends and the white evangelical gmo advocates among midwestern farmers and harvesters american harvest is the story of her travels and an account of the conversations church services and harvesting sessions she experienced along the way it s a moving account of what it s like to be a person of color traveling through the midwest and a thoughtful compassionate attempt to understand and bridge deep rooted cultural divides afropessimism by frank b wilderson iii this book combines memoir and philosophy to make an argument about what it means to be black wilderson writes about growing up in minneapolis studying with edward said living in berkeley and south africa and a lot more the book begins with a harrowing description of wilderson s mental health breakdown as he tells his story wilderson argues that subjugating black people is fundamental to the way non black people form their identity and their understanding of themselves as human he argues that anti blackness is baked into our civilization and the only honest response to the situation is to acknowledge it it s a challenging argument that combined with wilderson s absorbing memoir makes for a powerful read 1 comment filed under books sunday july 12 2020 3 39 pm preparing for women in translation month women in translation month is august do you know what you re reading for it yet women in translation month was founded by meytal radzinski who blogs and tweets as a way to address the gender imbalance in the books that get translated it s been going on since 2014 and from what i can see gets more and more attention each year and deservedly so it s fun to see what people are reading learn about new authors and read some great books so now i m going to think about what i might read this august here are s...