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Booksweekly: Flooded

Week 8 - 14 May:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ScH...

Books mentioned:

finished from previous week:
Megan Hunter, The End We Start From (May 2017)

read this week:
Kory Stamper, Word by Word - The Secret Life of Dictionaries (2016)

started this week:
- Yoko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear (English edition translated by Susan Bernofsky, 2016 / in German: Etüden im Schnee, 2014 / Published in the original Japanese in 2011)

- Molly McCloskey, When Light is Like Water (UK: April 2017)

BooksWeekly: Soul Searching

Week 1 - 7 May:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlLSA...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week(s):
- Olivia Laing, The Lonely City (2016)

Olivia Laing’s website: http://olivialaing.co.uk/
interview about the book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKZY...

- Dorthe Nors, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal / translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra (English edition: 2017 / published in Denmark in 2016)

Manbooker International Prize: http://themanbookerprize.com/internat...

Manbookering Group on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

also read this week:
Linda Smolkin, Among the Branded (May 2017)

started this week:
Megan Hunter, The End We Start From (May 2017)

BooksWeekly: On the Edge

Week 24 – 30 April 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRtKq...

Books & other things mentioned:

still not finished from previous week:
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City (2016)

Olivia Laing’s website: http://olivialaing.co.uk/
interview about the book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKZY...

read this week:
- Paula Cocozza, How To Be Human (April 2017)
Cocozza’s site at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/p...

- M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains (April 2017)

started this week:
- Dorthe Nors, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal / translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra (English edition: 2017 / published in Denmark in 2016)

Manbooker International Prize: http://themanbookerprize.com/internat...

Manbookering Group on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

BooksWeekly: Bold Choices

Week 10 - 16 April:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZnYd...


Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week(s):
- Heidi Julavits, The Folded Clock: A Diary (2015)

also read this week:
- Meg Howrey, The Wanderers (US: February 2017 / UK: April 2017)
Mercedes’ review (@mercysbookishmusings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7vAN...

- Blythe Rippon, Benched / Love & Law #2 (6 April 2017)
first book in the series: Barring Complications
Rippon’s Blog: https://blytherippon.com/

started this week:
- Mary McCarthy, A Bolt From the Blue – Essays / edited by A.O. Scott (2002)

BooksWeekly: First & Foremost

Week 3 - 9 April

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2y3t...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week(s):
- Danille Dutton, Margaret the First (2016)

Review on OLM: http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/jub...
written by @GardenScriptorium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5K...

re-reads:
- Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (2014)
- Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and other writings (first published 1666)

And if you are interested in Margaret Cavendish, this is a really good biography:
Katie Withaker, Made Madge (2002)

also read this week:
- Meike Ziervogel, Magda (2013)
Ziervogel’s publishing house: http://www.peirenepress.com/home
and her literary ‘salon’:
http://www.peirenepress.com/events/sa...

started this week:
- Heidi Julavits, The Folded Clock: A Diary (2015)
The Believer: http://www.believermag.com/

BooksWeekly: Truth Or Dare

Week 20 - 26 March:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhyun...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
- Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking (February, resp. April 2017)

also read this week:
- Katie Khan, Hold Back the Stars (January 2017 / debut)

- Delphine de Vigan, Based on a True Story (6 April 2017, translated by George Miller / originally published in French in 2015)
(the book that plays a major role: Delphine de Vigan, Nothing Holds Back the Night (2011))

started this week:
- Danille Dutton, Margaret the First (2016)

Review on OLM: http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/jub...
Steve’s channel: @stevedonoghue: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1B9...

BooksWeekly: Hunting Ghosts

Week 12 - 19 March:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ-vc...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
- Katie Kitamura, A Separation (2017)

- Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream, translated by Megan McDowell (Jan 2017, original published in Argentina in 2014)

ManBooker International Prize longlist: http://themanbookerprize.com/internat...

Sophie’s video @portal in the pages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j1VV...

Goodreads group Manbookering: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

also read this week:
- Clare Fisher, All the Good Things (June 2017 / debut)

started this week:
- Sarah Baume, A Line Made by Walking (February, resp. April 2017)

BooksWeekly: Happiness & All That Jazz

Week of 6 - 12 March:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-Aw...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
- Keggie Carew, Dadland (UK: 2016 / US: 7 March 2017)

Winner Costa Book Award / Biography 2016

interview with Keggie Carew on Vintage Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUEn...

also read this week:
- New Readings of Silvina Ocampo (2017)
(re-read: Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces (collected short stories, translated by Daniel Balderston, 2015)

- Donna Freitas, The Happiness Effect (February 2017)
Freitas’ website: https://www.donnafreitas.com/

Freitas on Social Media & Relationships (July 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9onJB...


starting this weekend? (received from publisher via NetGalley):
- Katie Kitamura, A Separation (2017)
- Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream, translated by Megan McDowell (Jan 2017, original published in Argentina in 2014)

BooksWeekly: Too Much To Bear

My week in books: 27 February - 6 March 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Mn7...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
Margaret Combs, Hazard (21 March 2017)

also read this week:
- re-read: Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic (2015)
podcast: Magic Lessons , episode #207: http://magiclessons.libsyn.com/

- Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning / Terra Ignota #1 (2016)
next book in the series: Seven Surrenders (7 March 2017)

started this week:
- Keggie Carew, Dadland (UK: 2016 / US: 7 March 2017)
Winner Costa Book Award / Biography 2016

BooksWeekly: Ruptures

My week in books 13 - 19 February 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRh1...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve (2016)

ManBooker International Prize 2017: http://themanbookerprize.com/internat...
Goodreads Manbookering Bookclub: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

also read this week:
- Claire Fuller, Swimming Lessons (January 2017)
NetGalley: https://s2.netgalley.com/

- Susan Perabo, The Fall of Lisa Bellow (March 2017)
Steve @Stevedonoghue: https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdon...

started this week:
also from NetGalley: Margaret Combs, Hazard (March 2017)