Scallydandling about the books | May's Delights and Discoveries with #MayoftheModerns and more @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
May was a full month with a multitude of good reads. I hope yours was equally full of delights and discoveries. This is a bit long so I have done time stamps so you can hop to the books that interest you.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Face Rosario Villajos
2:32 Under The Sea-Wind Rachel Carson
4:46 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
6:36 In This House of Brede Rumer Godden
7:04 Lean Fall Stand Jon McGregor
9:29 Companion Piece Ali Smith
11:15 Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf
15:16 The Grain Store and Bad Roads Natal'ya Vorozhbit
16:00 Scars Upon My Heart edited Catherine Reilly
16:49 The Ring and the Book Robert Browning
18:15 Fifty-five Pillars Red Walls Usha Priyamvada trans Daisy Rockwell
20:10 Devdas Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay trans Vishwanath Naravane
23:21 Disoriental Negar Djavadi trans Tina Kover
27:10 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann trans Edith Grossman
Thank you to @MargaretPinard for May of the Moderns and @katehowereads for getting me to read The Ring and the Book.
Greg @anotherbibliophilereads was my partner in hosting The Magic Mountain readalong so thanks to him and all the lovely Voxer group.
Katie @katiejlumsden hosted the #HistoricalFictionReadathon and
Lit with Indian Lit was hosted by @SantReads
I was prompted to read Rachel Carson by #springathon so thanks Heidi@myreadinglife8816 and Doris @alldbooks9165 and Rumer Godden by Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse and #maybemidrash
Disoriental was a LGBTQ Books In Translation choice. To join this book group check in with @JentheLibrarianreads
May was a full month with a multitude of good reads. I hope yours was equally full of delights and discoveries. This is a bit long so I have done time stamps so you can hop to the books that interest you.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Face Rosario Villajos
2:32 Under The Sea-Wind Rachel Carson
4:46 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
6:36 In This House of Brede Rumer Godden
7:04 Lean Fall Stand Jon McGregor
9:29 Companion Piece Ali Smith
11:15 Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf
15:16 The Grain Store and Bad Roads Natal'ya Vorozhbit
16:00 Scars Upon My Heart edited Catherine Reilly
16:49 The Ring and the Book Robert Browning
18:15 Fifty-five Pillars Red Walls Usha Priyamvada trans Daisy Rockwell
20:10 Devdas Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay trans Vishwanath Naravane
23:21 Disoriental Negar Djavadi trans Tina Kover
27:10 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann trans Edith Grossman
Thank you to @MargaretPinard for May of the Moderns and @katehowereads for getting me to read The Ring and the Book.
Greg @anotherbibliophilereads was my partner in hosting The Magic Mountain readalong so thanks to him and all the lovely Voxer group.
Katie @katiejlumsden hosted the #HistoricalFictionReadathon and
Lit with Indian Lit was hosted by @SantReads
I was prompted to read Rachel Carson by #springathon so thanks Heidi@myreadinglife8816 and Doris @alldbooks9165 and Rumer Godden by Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse and #maybemidrash
Disoriental was a LGBTQ Books In Translation choice. To join this book group check in with @JentheLibrarianreads
