The Reading Life Review - April 2018

April Authors 

In April, 2018 I posted upon 21 authors.

Among the living there are 14, 7 deceased.

There are 12 women and 9 men.

Featured for the first time were 7 writers.

Author Home Countries

1. Ireland 7
2. USA 4
3. England 2
4. Poland 2
5. France 1
6. Egypt 1
7. Sri Lanka 1
8. Lithuania 1
9. Brazil 1
10. Ukraine 1

Column 1, from the left

1.   Jerry Spinelli - USA - Milkweed, Newberry Award Winner
2.   Heather Fowler - USA- Beautiful Baby Ape Girl, four collections of short stories 
3. Jaki McCarrick - Irish, Belfast Girls, The Scattering 

Column 2

1. Daniel Corkery, - Irish, classic Cork writer
2. Clarice Lispector- Brazil
3. Lili Barger - Poland, Yiddish Short Stories

Column 3. (Single image)

1. Leslie Epstein - U.S.A - King of The Jews, Holocaust classic

Column 4

1. Madeleine D’Arcy Lane - Ireland - Short Stories
2. Brian Kirk - Ireland - Short Stories, Multi genre writer
3. Janet H Swinney - England - Short Stories

Column 5

1. I. L. Peretz - Poland - Major Yiddish Writer
2. Riham Adly - Egypt - Award Winning Short Story Writer
3. Shaunna Giligan - Ireland - Happiness Comes from Nowhere

Column 6

1. Blume Lempel - Ukraine - Yiddish Short Story Writer 
2. Georges Perec - France - Life a User’s Manual
3. Ron Chernow - U.S.A - Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian and Biographer
4. Steve Wade - Ireland - Short Stories

Column 7

1. Shirna Gorshman - Lithuania - Yiddish Short Stories
2. Amanthi Harris - Sri Lanka - Multi genre writer, visual artist
3. Zadie Smith - England
4. Billie O’Callagnan - Ireland - Multi Genre writer

Blog Stats 

Since inception The Reading Life has had 5,210,705 page views.

There are 3319 posts online 

Top Ten Reader Home Countries

1. U.S.A
2. Pakistan
3. India
4. Bangladesh
5. Philippines 
6. UK
7. Spain
8. France
9. Canada
10. Netherlands 

Most viewed posts in April

1. “Drishti” by Janet H Swinney .  This post broke all my records for page Views on a new post.  
2. “A Footnote to Youth” by Jose Garcia 
3. “Arrangement in Black and White” by Dorothy Parker 

Followed by two short stories by R. K. Narayan 

I also was honoured to be allowed to publish short stories by two very talented highly accomplished writers I have followed for years, Heather Fowler and Jaki McCarrick. 

Future Plans/Hopes 

I will continue reading lots of short stories, Holocaust Literature, classics, quality historical novels, my favourite contemporary writers while hopefully discovering emerging authors. I will continue to follow the careers of a number of writers.  

I offer my great thanks to Max u for the Amazon Gift Cards

To publicists and authors, I am very open in what I Review so please feel free to contact me 

To all those who leave comments, thanks so much.  

Mel u