The Reading Life Review- February 2024- Part One- 7.5 Million Pages Views Surpassed- Works Read in February- March Plans. irish Short Story Month

The Reading Life is a 15 Year Old Book Blog committed to the values of literary globalism.


Our very international readership includes MacArthur Genius Grant Winners, researchers from the Vatican Library, faculty and staff from Universities world wide, publishing industry professionals, and teenage book lovers as was I was in the long ago.


Short Stories, Irish literature, Classics, Modern Fiction, Yiddish Literature,Contemporary Literary Fiction, The Japanese Novel, Post Colonial Asian Fiction, Jewish History, The Legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and quality Historical Novels are Among my Interests. I also read narrative nonfiction.






February Authors - Carol Shields and Wayne Koestenbaum




Works Featured in February 2024


1. "Purple Blossoms" - A Short Story by Carol Shields- Included in The Collected Short Stories of Carol Shields- 2004


2. Queen's Throat Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum- 1993 - 272 Pages


3. Sailors Lost at Sea" - A Short Story by Carol Shields - Included in The Collected Short Stories of Carol Shields- 2004


4. Accidents" - A Short Story by Carol Shields - included in The Collected Stories of Carol Shields - 2004 - With An Introduction by Margaret Atwood


Blog Stats


Page Views of our posts since inception


7,503,545 -
Page views in February 37,805


The Most Viewed Posts for February Included two movie reviews and seven upon short stories.


Home Countries of Visitors


1. Singapore -very gratifying to have so many visitors from such a highly educated country.


2, USA


3. The United Kingdom


4. India


5. The Philippines


6. Canada


7. Polond


8. Hong Kong


9. Pakistan


10. Isreal


March Reading Plans and Hopes




Irish Short Story Month will once again be observed on The Reading Life


Works of fiction I Hope to read in February 


1. I hope to finish Bleak House by Charles Dickens
2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
3. Memoirs of HADRIAN AND REFLECTIONS ON THE COMPOSITION OF MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY GRACE FRICK IN COLLABORATION WITH THE AUTHOR Marguerite Yourcenar
4. Short Stories by Carol Shields, Jean Stafford, Nancy Hale, Cheva Rosenfarb, Donald Barthelme among others
6. Sing, I by Ethel Rohan
7. The Book of Love by Kelly Link

In works of history I Hope to complete


1. Nazis, Islamists, and the making of the modern Middle East by Barry Rubin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz.
2., Hands of Time: A Watch Maker's History by Rebecca Struthers.
3, Hitler’s shadow empire : Nazi economics and the Spanish Civil War by Pierpaolo Barbieri.
5. The merchant of Prato : Francesco di Marco Datini, 1335–1410 / by Iris Origo ; introduction by Charles Nicholl.
6. Empire of brutality : enslaved people and animals in the British Atlantic world by Michael Blakley.
7. FOOD, HOPE & RESILIENCE AUTHENTIC RECIPES AND REMARKABLE STORIES FROM HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS by June Hersh
8. Native American Women and the Burden of Southern History by Daniel H. Ushner


I will do a second post upon my February Movies


I once again offer my great thanks to Max u for his kind provision of Amazon Gift Cards.