Recent reading
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luzulaWar's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich (original in Russian, read in Swedish)
For book-club-at-work; my choice. This is a collection of interviews with Soviet women who fought in WW2. It's very engaging and easy to read! I thought it would be heavy going, but not at all--I mean, of course it's heavy in the sense that horrible things are described, and I cried several times while reading it. But it's also very personal and chatty and sometimes almost uplifting, even though it doesn't romanticize war at all. Recommended.
A Fugue in Time by Rumer Godden
A house and a family through the years, with an interesting storytelling technique where there's a present-day storyline (told in the past tense), but all the hundred years before that is there as well, with little snippets in the present tense that's interwoven with the past-tense story. It might sound complicated, but it's actually very engaging and easy to follow. The reason I read this is that Jo Walton recommended it as being the inspiration for her domestic fantasy book Lifelode. I liked it!
For book-club-at-work; my choice. This is a collection of interviews with Soviet women who fought in WW2. It's very engaging and easy to read! I thought it would be heavy going, but not at all--I mean, of course it's heavy in the sense that horrible things are described, and I cried several times while reading it. But it's also very personal and chatty and sometimes almost uplifting, even though it doesn't romanticize war at all. Recommended.
A Fugue in Time by Rumer Godden
A house and a family through the years, with an interesting storytelling technique where there's a present-day storyline (told in the past tense), but all the hundred years before that is there as well, with little snippets in the present tense that's interwoven with the past-tense story. It might sound complicated, but it's actually very engaging and easy to follow. The reason I read this is that Jo Walton recommended it as being the inspiration for her domestic fantasy book Lifelode. I liked it!
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Date: 2016-06-03 09:37 pm (UTC)I read your post about visiting a school and talking about your books! That was so cool. Stranger is on my list of books to check out, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
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