The Reading Life Review - April 2024 - Future Plans

 April Nonfiction 

1. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle - 2009 - by Dan Senor and Saul Singer

2. Nazis, Islamists, and the making of the modern Middle East / Barry Rubin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz. - no post

3. Stolen Words The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books by Mark Glickman - 2016 - 344 Pages 

4. Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York by Tyler Anbinder- 2024 - 430 Pages

5. Some People Need Killing: a Memoir of Murder in My Country - by Patricia Evangelista.- 2023 - 429 Pages

6. Sacred trash : the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole. 2011- no post

7. The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilence of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World by Dan Senor and Saul Singer- 2023 - 532 Pages 

8. Time’s echo : the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the music of remembrance by Jeremy Eichler. 2023. - no post

April  Novels

1. The Fraud by Zadie Smith

2. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman 

3. Until August  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

4. The Covenent of Water  by Abraham Verghese 

April Short Stories 

I posted on four short stories by Carol Shields and four from Cork Stories 

Blog Stats 

Home Countries of April Authors 

1. USA - 7

2. Ireland- 4

3. Canada 1

4. UK - 1

5. Columbia- 1

Origin Countries of Visitors 

1. Hong Kong 

2. USA 

3. China

4. Philippines 

5. India 

6. France

7. UK 

8. Germany 

9. Singapore 

10. Indonesia 

Blog Views since inception 

7,619,403

Blog Views in April 

90,196

Of the top ten most viewed posts in April, 8 were on short stories, one 

 on a novel by Joseph Conrad aand one on a novel by Alice Hoffman 

Future plans and Hopes

I am currently reading these works historical Nonfiction 

1. The lost library: the legacy of Vilna’s Strashun library in the aftermath of the Holocaust by Dan Rabinowitz.

2. The wide wide sea : imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides.

3. THE STORY OF THE JEWS. Copyright 2013 by Simon Schama.

4. Humans in Shackles An Atlantic History of Slavery Ana Lucia ArAujo review book from The University of Chicago 

5, Chaim Weizmann A Biography by Jehuda Reinharz & Motti Golani - review book from Brandeis University Press on first president of Israel 

Novels in process

1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 

2. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

3. Palmares by Gayl Jones

May Short Story plans

I will continue reading stories by Carol Shields and works in the anthology Cork Stories