Dianne with two n's 2022 TBR List

[Dianne]

1. Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
2. Ignorance - Milan Kundera
3. Justine - Lawrence Durrell
4. A Heart So White - Javier Marias
5. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
6. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
7. By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
8. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
9. Quicksand - Nella Larsen
10. Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion
11. Kokora - Natsume Soseki
12. Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
13. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
14. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
15. Pereira Mountains - Antonio Tabucchi
16. The Sea - John Banville
17. As if I am not There - Slavenka Drakulic
18. Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
19. Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
21. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
22. Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
23. Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maughm
24. Broken April - Ismail Kadare

[Dianne]

I did read #17 but forgot to review- whoops! I'll start over with Feb. and 24 - Broken April

[Dianne]

#24 - Broken April finished 2-27

4 stars

This book was compelling and mostly tragic in that the killings described therein seems inevitable - as if the blood feuds were pre-ordained in history and there was nothing that Gjorg could do to avoid his fate. History and location here left inhabitants sealed in the amber of tradition and long-standing family feuds.

[Dianne]

#19 Autumn of the Patriarch

5 stars

I have to rate all of Garcia Marquez's novels as five stars because I love the lyrical gorgeous writing. In this novel we see the loneliness of power and also its detachment from reality. You have to be in the right frame of mind to read the book because of the incredibly long winded, rambling and sometimes confusing sentences, however, they always retain a sense of magical realism and delicacy. Definitely a book I could read a few times over.

[Dianne]

Hoping to jump back in with #23 - Cakes and Ale