Scallydandling about the books | April's Delights and Discoveries from dystopia to Don Quixote @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
April was full of good reading for me. I hope it was for you too.

Books mentioned with related links:
00:00 thirteen books and six 5☆ reads
01:00 Egil's Sage translated by Bernard Scudder videos @tillysshelf youtu.be/j-8Et6FPj4I is the first of three
02:10 The Slowworm's Song Andrew Miller
04:35 The Silent Steppe Mukhamet Shayakhmetov trans Jan Butler
05:45 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas trans Dolores Koch and see @JentheLibrarianreads for more on the LGBTQ in translation group
11:28 Wivenhoe Samuel Fisher
13:00 The Rain Heron Robbie Arnott
14:45 Peeling Kaite O'Reilly and video youtu.be/IaHncQIsfYc
15:22 They Burn Thistles Yaşar Kemal trans Margaret Platon and Berna @BernasBookishAdventures talks about Kemal here youtu.be/QNMhFqum9nI along with her other top Turkish authors
17:15 An Apprenticeship Clarice Lispector trans Stefan Tobler Allen's video youtu.be/y4-pvG7GZdI @bighardbooks770 and Fraser's youtu.be/v8ruNEVrtbI @SpringboardThought
18:47 Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes trans Edith Grossman
22:02 Bad Island Stanley Donwood
23:00 The Heeding Rob Cowen illustrated Nick Hayes
24:30 Ultimatum Orangutan Khairani Barokka @BobTheBookerer talks about it ad part of the Barbellion Prize shortlist youtu.be/FQRqA45_HGE and Barokka reading a poem from the collection youtu.be/0j4SirYpw08