10 Books of Summer Wrap-up #20BooksOfSummer23

https://enterenchanted.com/10-books-of-summer-summer-in-other-languages-wrap-up/

This week on #damppebbles

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Review #OntheSavageSide by Tiffany McDaniel
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Review #JustAnotherMissingPerson by Gillian McAllister
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Review: The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland #bookreview #20booksofsummer23 #historicalfiction

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/review-the-house-is-on-fire-by-rachel-beanland/

Book 10 of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 is Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle) which is an affecting read. It’s structured around Elena’s doses of medication for Parkinson’s which is a great way to weave in the idea of ‘crip time’, something many disabled people recognise. It’s explored as part of a compelling mystery #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #WITMonth

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/92d31073-bddf-4633-8ce2-4b3858a9dd35

Book 9 of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 is Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers. The mystery revolves around Lord Peter Wimsey trying to figure out a tricky puzzle with little evidence to a tight deadline and introduces Harriet Vane #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e90001d5-82d3-4c02-b0b7-360981864c9b

i’ve now finished my final book of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 and I’m chuffed that I managed to complete the challenge! i wasn’t expecting to review each book but once I got into the rhythm of it I had fun recording my thoughts as I went. All of the books were brilliant indifferent ways and some of them had been on my list for many years. just one more review to write, for Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro and it will be done 😄
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Book 8 of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 is Free Love by Tessa Hadley, 2022. It was fabulous right from the first chapter which is a wonderful set piece that includes some amazingly awkward interactions between characters and shows you their inner thoughts in a gently amusing way, reminding me of Barbaara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ae4dbf8f-1458-4874-85e1-7ecb91214e55

Book 7 of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 is Moshi-Moshi: A Novel by Banana Yoshimoto, 2010, tr. Asa Yoneda. I fell in love with her elegant writing, gulping it down in a day! It’s about grief and human connection and the afterward about the importance of community was very touching #WITMonth #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/92b21108-a42d-4c6f-875b-edcabb3186ea

Yesterday I finished my 10th book of summer. I was aiming to read 10 books off my longstanding TBR, or for various challenges, and I succeeded!

Here's my list:
https://enterenchanted.com/10-books-of-summer-summer-in-other-languages/

The second half of my list:
📖 The Black Count
📖 Voyage au centre de la Terre
📖 The Island of Missing Trees
📖 When We Were Birds
📖 Krabat

I loved them all. Have you read any of these? What were your summer reading highlights?

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Book 6 of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 is Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, 2021 - I’m so glad I waited a couple of years for all the buzz to die down as I’d forgotten about the Normal People TV Show, and all the hype there was on this book’s publication, and really enjoyed the book more for it #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/bb033a05-3845-4155-ac3b-e16a1cb9be05

Book 5 of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 is Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, 2021, which puts a spotlight on a piece of shockingly recent history I didn’t know about (the Magdalene laundries) through the life of one man and there are so many poignant moments #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a559ce0d-8f93-4282-aa70-1e462d9631ae

#BookReview Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Read in Braille
Pub. 2021, 368pp
Faber
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This novel is set mainly in Ireland, both in a small town and in Dublin, where best friends Alice and Eileen studied and lived together.
This is a book in which you could say nothing much really happens, and that’s my kind of book! It concerns questions of identity, sexuality and wider issues including politics, global warming and religion.
I love Sally Rooney’s writing and this book is just as good as the previous two. There’s a gorgeous rhythm to her prose and I find that when you get started you just want to read and read! And her dialogue, to me, continues to be her biggest strength.
I liked the mix of ways characters interact with each other; in person, through text messages and over email. It makes for a varied structure. There are some very amusing texts between Eileen and her sister Lola who’s preparing for her wedding whereas the emails between Eileen and Alice have a different tone, becoming very philosophical at times while mixing in anecdotes about their lives: “The state of the world being what it is, humanity on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship…what else is there to live for?”
Of all the relationships, I enjoyed reading about Eileen and Simon most as I felt it accurately captured what it’s like to be in a high pressure situation, with the real fear that, if you go for it, it could go horribly wrong and the thought of the potential fallout is unbearable.
I’m glad I left it a couple of years before reading this book as I’d forgotten about the TV series of Normal People and all the hype surrounding this book’s launch. It meant I just enjoyed reading it as it was without the background buzz of the usual ‘Sally Rooney discourse’ on publication.
Rooney has a gift for eloquently expressing the awkwardness of human interactions and I didn’t want it to end.
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I've read nine of my #20BooksOfSummer23 list but only just managed to write the first review.

Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang:
https://www.curiositykilledthebookworm.net/2023/07/yellowface/

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My #review of The Salt Path

https://enterenchanted.com/20booksofsummer23-the-salt-path/

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Review: Dreams of Arcadia by Brian Porter #20booksofsummer23

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2023/07/06/review-dreams-of-arcadia-by-brian-porter/

My June Reading Wrap-Up #20booksofsummer23

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2023/07/01/my-june-reading-wrap-up-7/

Book 1 of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 is The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, 2022, an engrossing novel, full of vivid, poetic writing
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3be12113-f7eb-4d35-84ee-ec71212f9112
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Review: And Then He Sang A Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu #the52bookclub #20booksofsummer23 #NetGalley

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2023/06/22/review-and-then-he-sang-a-lullaby-by-ani-kayode-somtochukwu/

Had a busy morning and I’m glad to have a bit of time to relax this lunchtime. I’ve just started my third book of my 10 choices for #20BooksOfSummer23 which is a short novel by Claire Keegan called Small Things Like These and it is so well written and absorbing that if I get a quiet moment later I’ll probably finish it in one day! #bookstodon #ReadingCommunity

Review: Aloha Vietnam by Elizabeth Nguyen #the52bookclub #20booksofsummer23

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2023/06/14/review-aloha-vietnam-by-elizabeth-nguyen/