Scallydandling about the books | July delights, discoveries and one disappointment, with a "dead white men" digression @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 31 minutes ago.
A overheated version of my bookish highlights in July. I also digress on the subject of why I may use the term "dead white men" about some authors but still value reading lots of them. This is in part responding to Mark @BookTimewithElvis youtu.be/LOule6R24Gs

For more about my Book Tube Prize reading: youtu.be/Dloa8O4aLE4 and Jane Austen July youtu.be/kZ7YZ5XVMyY

Thank you once again to Tom @tomlabooks3263 and if you missed out on Dante the good news is he plans to start Orlando Furiosto by Ariosto sometime soonish.
And thanks to Laura for reading Buzatti with me.

Books mentioned:
The Town by William Faulkner
The Roles We Play by Sabba Khan
Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzatti trans Stuart Hood
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - I mostly used the translation by Robin Kirkpatrick