The Reading Life Review - August 2020

 

August Authors 

 

 Column One

1. Adrien Goetz - France - Villa of Delirium - First Blog appearsnce

2. Heather Dune Macadam - USA- holocausf Historian - first appearanceJo Walton - UK to Canada - highly awarded fantasy writer

3. Sholem Aleichem - Russia

4. Jo Walton - UK to Canada - Multi Award winning fantasy writer - first appearance. We Will return to her work

Column Two

1. Maria Ampuero Eduada - Ecuador - debut Short story Collection Cockfight - first appearance

2. Roxane Gay - USA -highly regarded Multi genre writer

3. Mavis Gallant - Canada to France

4. Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn - Poland to USA - prolific Yiddish language Short story writer - actress in The Yiddish Theater

Column Three 

 1.  Y. Y. Zevin - Belorussia to USA - best known for short stories about the lives of immigrants to New York City - first appearance 

2. Marilynne Robinson- USA - Pulitzer Prize Winner. First a

         First appearance.  A read through of her fiction is planned 

3. Elizabeth Taylor - UK - a read through of her work is planned

4. F. Scott Fitzgerald- USA - 

Column Four

1. Mosh Asch - Poland to USA - highly regarded Yiddish Language Author

2. Ivy Compton-Burnett- UK

3. David Reich- USA - author Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past - first appearance 

4. Ernest Hemingway-USA

In August six male and eight female authors were featured.  The mix of the living and the dead was 50/50.  Seven of 16 writers were initially featured in August.

Birth Countries of Authors

1. USA. 6

2. Canada 2

3. UK 2

4. Poland 2

5. Ecudor 1

6. Russia 1

7. Belorussia 1

8. France 1

Five August authors were immigrants 

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Home countries of visitors for August 

1. USA

2. India 

3. Phillippines 

4. Germany

5. Russia 

6. Dominican Republic (first time on list)

7. Indonesia 

8. Canada 

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The Reading Life is a multicultural book Blog dedicated to goals of 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

I am doing a seperate posts on my Reading Life hopes and plans, covering the next six months. 

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To our fellow book bloggers, among the  world’s greatest readers, especially Americans, these are dark times.  Ugly truthes about America have been revealed.  Keep blogging.  Teach your children to love Reading.

Ambrosia Bousweau

Managing Director 

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