The Reading Life Review - May 2022

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. Kim Michelle Richardson - USA - author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The Book Woman’s Daughter 
2. Ursula Bloom - UK - a British Library Women Writers author. First Appearance 
3. Erica Robuck - USA- author of seven marvelous works of historical fiction.  I have read five so far.

Column Two

1. Sherri J. Ryan - USA - World War Two Fiction focused on the Holocaust 
2. Nikolai Leskov - Russia - first appearance 
3. Elizabeth Von Armin - UK. British Library Women Writers - very prolific- first appearance 

Column Three

1. Daphne Palasi Andreades - USA - author Brown Girls- first appearance - high art
2. Kelly Link - USA - wonderful fantastic stories- I hope to read many more of her stories 
3. Tara Westover - USA - author of Educated - a very powerful memoir.- first appearance

In May I posted on works by eight women and one man.  Three of the authors are deceased. Five appeared on The Reading Life for the first time.

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Home Countries of May visitors

1. USA
2. India
3. The Phillippines
4. Netherlands
5. Russia
6. UK
7. Canada
8. Denmark Germany
9. Indonesia
10. Pakistan 
11. Bulgaria
12. Malaysia
13. Vietnam
14. Switzerland
15. Italy
16. Japan 
17. South Korea

Additionally there were visitors from 47 othrer countries in May

In May I read but did not post on

Three Short stories by Kelly Link, one by Ivan Bunin, two by Teffi and one by Crystal Wilkinson “Endangered Species: Case 47401”

I also read a very interesting memoir, She Read to Us in The Afteroon: A Life in Novels by Kathleen Hill

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