The Reading Life Review - September 2021 - My Plans for remainder of 2021- A Year in Lockdown

The Reading Life is a multicultural

book blog, committed to Literary Globalism.

Short Stories, Irish literature, Classics, Modern Fiction, Contemporary Literary Fiction, The Japanese Novel, Post Colonial Asian Fiction, The Legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and quality Historical Novels are Among our Interests.

Column One

1. Susanne Clarke - UK - author Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell . And Piranesi - first appearance -enthralled by her work 
2. Sally Rooney - Ireland - author Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. First appearance
3. Louise Erdrich - USA - Pulitzer Prize 

Column Two

1. Paulina Bren - born in Czechoslovakia- now lives in USA- author The Barbizon- The New York Hotel that Set Women Free.  A marvelous narrative non- Fiction book - first appearance 
2. Rosa Palitik - born in Poland- emigrated to Brazil. Prolific Yiddish language writer 
3. Barbara Pym. UK.  I am doing a read through of her work. Perfect pandemic reading for me

Column Three

1. Michael W. Twitty - USA - author The Cooking Gene A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South - 2018 James Beard Foundation Winner. First appearance - great book
2. Nalo Hopkinson - USA - Multi-awarded Fantasy and S/F writer. Her novel Salt Road stunned me. First appearance - hope to do a read through
3. Madeline Miller- USA - author Love Song of Achiles. I hope to read her second novel Circe, also drawn from Homer, soon. First appearance 

Column Four

1. Frederick Opie - USA  - food historian - first appearance
2. Ann Patchett - USA - Multi-Awarded.  First but not Last appearance - The Dutch House
3. Jonathan Safran Foer - USA - author Everything is Illuminated - first appearance 

Home lands of September Authors

1. USA - 8
2. UK - 1
3. Ireland- 1
4. Poland - 1
5. Czechoslovakia - 1

All but Rosa Palitik are living. Nine are women, three men.

Nine were featured for the first time in September 

I read two books upon which I did not post

1. The Social Life of Books- Reading together in the 18th Century by Abigail  Williams - covers England only
2. The Auschwitz Photographer - The Forgotten Story of The Photagraher who Documented 1000s of Lost Souls by Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis - a valuable edition to Auschwitz literature 

There were posts in September on nine novels, three works of narrative non-fiction and one on a Short Story.

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I have some ambitious hopes for The remainder of 2021

My thanks to Lyn u for her spiritual support 

My gratitude to Max u for his kind provision of Amazon Gift Cards  continues.