I found this on one of the blogs I follow, Books are the New Black who found it at One Book More. It was originally created by Reviews from the Stacks, and the idea is to spell the month using the first letter of book titles.
Since we choose our own topics at the moment, it is always a little harder. I did get this inspiration from some other bloggers last month. I believe we all copy from each other.
I am happy to have found quite a few foreign authors and hope I can inspire some of my blog friends to read them.
OCTOBER
O
Pamuk, Orhan "The Red-Haired Woman" (Turkish: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın) - 2016
This author always finds a new way to portray his country, the people who live there, the uniqueness of a place between East and West.
But he also combines history and present. He explains what is going on in present day Turkey in his own way. And he uses a lot of symbolism that is easy to understand. Just brilliant.
And then there is always a way where he brings us closer to Eastern culture.
C
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Labyrinth of the Spirits" (Spanish: El laberinto de los espíritus) - 2016
The fourth book in the series of the Cemetery of Forgotten books. It was just as exciting as the first three that had originally been called a trilogy but - luckily - the author decided to turn it into a tetralogy.
We have learned a lot about the family Sempere and the authors they read, their friends and their lives, esp. the lives of the people in Catalonia during the Franco regime.
We have learned a lot about the family Sempere and the authors they read, their friends and their lives, esp. the lives of the people in Catalonia during the Franco regime.
T
This author is a very famous German Nobel Laureate and he has written a lot of books worth reading. Even the title of this one sounds enchanting. Who wouldn't want to step into it, even if it means you have to go through 1,100 pages to get to the end? I think this book deserves five stars just for the brilliant title which is as magical in the original as well as the translated title.
A very philosophical novel.
O
Grjasnowa, Olga "All Russians Love Birch Trees" (German: Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt) - 2012
The protagonist is a young woman not unlike the author. She grew up in Azerbaijan and speaks several languages. So does Masha, our main character. She lives in Frankfurt with her boyfriend. After a tragedy, she goes to Israel where she tries to settle. Her home could be everywhere, yet, she finds it is nowhere.
B
Same as in all his other travel books, the author writes one of the funniest accounts of a mega-hike. The story itself is hilarious, Bill Bryson manages to describe everything in such a funny way that you cannot avoid laughing.
E
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) "A Passage to India" - 1924
This novel takes us both to a different time and a different area, India in die 1920s. Of course, the protagonists are British who live in the time of the Indian independence movement but the main character is a young Indian who gets into trouble just through the carelessness of the English. The book talks about friendship, colonialism, the wish of all human beings to be independent.
R
The author once said you cannot understand the history and present of the Arabs without the prohibition of love. And with this book he has shown us a great example and hopefully helps us to understand each other better.
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Happy Reading!
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