Announcing the August Tag

[Kimber]

Joanne wrote: "I have read quite a few on the cultural shelf-a few recommendations

Fiction:

Homegoing
Cutting for Stone
City of Thieves
[book:The Map of Salt and St..."

Joanne, I have read and enjoyed all of your fiction recommendations for the cultural tag, except I haven't read In the Time of the Butterflies. I feel like I should add that to my list.

[Booknblues]

Kimber wrote: "Joanne wrote: "I have read quite a few on the cultural shelf-a few recommendations

Fiction:

Homegoing
Cutting for Stone
City of Thieves
[book:The Map..."

Time of Butterflies is beautiful and sad.

[Joy D]

By some fluke, I have been reading books that fit the Cultural tag pretty much the entire month of July. I can recommend:

- By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz -4 stars - My Review (Czech Republic)
- Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson - 4 stars - My Review (Iceland)
- The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha - 4 stars - My Review (Brazil)
- Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik - 4 stars - My Review (Iran)
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 7/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Nigeria)
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras - 4 stars (Colombia)

Each author was born in the country indicated and each book refers to elements of the country's culture or what it was like to live in that country at the particular time in history.

[Anita]

I think the Booker prize nominees will be announced on Tuesday, so I may wait for that to see what cultural options are included.

[Booknblues]

Anita wrote: "I think the Booker prize nominees will be announced on Tuesday, so I may wait for that to see what cultural options are included."

I'm hoping to read some Booker nominees in August, but hoping for ones on my tbr and actually keeping my fingers crossed for an Australian nominee on my tbr to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. I'm wanting The Performance, but I am also seeing some predicting The Yield which is on my tbr.

[Joy D]

I am looking forward to the Booker longlist announcement. I usually read a handful of the nominees.

Here's another recommendation (Booker eligible):
Rwandan-born author who moved to Namibia (similar to the protagonist of the book):
The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije - 5 stars

[NancyJ]

Amy wrote: "OK - here is my plan for the Month. My Fly book is going to be A Long Petal to the Sea, which will take me to Chile. (From Iraq). I will read Time After Time with Joanne and possibly others, for th..."

I am planning to read A Long Petal to the Sea too, for my trip to Spain. It has tags for both.

[Amy]

Nancy! I am excited! That is two books for us to talk about together this month. I have a number of books that are on their way to me in the library, and five already waiting. I might just pick them up today!

[Sallys]

Amy. I’m not sure but I may have a long petal to the sea I have to get through the henna artist which I justcstsrted

[Karin]

It turns out the book I already got for Fly the skies in August is marked cultural, so I have at least one already to go. This week I am busy trying to finish (or start and finish) books for other things, including one more regency. But of course, now I am thinking about Pursue It! since the novel I have won't have anything to do with immigration that I can see by the book description. Ideally it will have at least food, though, provided the characters eat in the story. I can't even remember now how I found this book.

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[Barbara M]

Joanne wrote: "I think you will fly throughA Long Petal of the Sea and What the Wind Knows, Amy. Both 4 stars reads for me and pretty sure will be on my top ten of the year.

Let m..."

I'm going to see if I can get A Long Petal of the Sea to read with you. It is an area of history I don't know much about although I did a history course of South America. Can't cover enough of such a large and diverse area in only one semester!

[Amy]

Barbara. That will be si great! I will start a thread for us!

[Joanne]

Both of you will enjoy this story! Isabel Allende is one of my favorite authors

[Joi]

Nicole R wrote: "I have been hearing excellent things about Crying in H Mart so that is currently topping my list.

Joi, is this one on your radar? It seems like one you would enjoy and the author g..."

I own it. I read like 3 chapters and got super into it, then life hit. I'm debating whether to quickly breeze through it, or save it for December to fly home in the game.

[Barbara M]

I've checked and I can get A Long Petal of the Sea from the library. So I'll join those of you planning to read it. There is a hole in my history education and, even though I did a semester of South American history, it just skimmed the huge area and diversity here. I'm looking forward to this.

[Susan]

Anita wrote: "I am between Transcendent Kingdom, The Henna Artist and The Space Between Us. Any recommendations??"

The Space Between Us is depressing I thought, although well written.

[Kimber]

I've read and enjoyed a lot of books with the cultural tag. I recommend:

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The Leavers

I'm going to start August out with A Gentleman in Moscow and play it by ear from there.

[Book Concierge]

GREAT banner! Worth the wait....

[Booknblues]

Book Concierge wrote: "GREAT banner! Worth the wait...."

The preschool teacher in me just loves it!

[Joanne]

The banner is fabulous Anna!

[Nicole R]

I have to admit that this is one of my favorite banners we have had in a while, and we always have great ones!

[Karin]

I love the banner! I already have books that fit this here; this will be an easy tag in some ways, but also given some of the books will broaden my reading horizons. One is by a Ugandan novelist and I don't think I have read a Ugandan-written novel before.

[Yvonne]

Anita wrote: "I am between Transcendent Kingdom, The Henna Artist and The Space Between Us. Any recommendations??"

I really enjoyed the Henna Artist.

[Michelle (MichelleBookAddict)]

Any recommendations for some short reads?

[Book Concierge]

Michelle (MichelleBookAddict) wrote: "Any recommendations for some short reads?"

YA or children's books (middle-school) should fit the bill, or possibly mysteries, especially cozy mysteries.

YA: A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
Children's: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Mystery, historical cozy: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Mystery LIGHT, contemporary: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

[LibraryCin]

Michelle (MichelleBookAddict) wrote: "Any recommendations for some short reads?"

Even better, how about a YA graphic novel!? :-)

Escape from Syria by Samya Kullab.

[Theresa]

I can recommend this K-9 suspense thriller - romance but romance is secondary - rich cultural and historical info on Slovakia and Norway. Only about 200 pages. Though part of a trilogy you can totally read as a standalone.

Defender's Instinct: Cerberus Tactical K9 by Fiona Quinn. I read it in a few hours. gave it 4 stars. I reviewed it but GR is not letting me post to PBT at the moment - probably because I'd just done a few reviews and posts.

[Michelle (MichelleBookAddict)]

Thank you all for the recommendation. I have had Esperanza Rising on my tbr so I could see if it’s available on overdrive or cloudLibrary.

Is Jane Austen’s Persuasion a cultural read? Probably not. I’m currently rereading that for #AusteninAugust