Monthly Summary; May 2021

It's the end of yet another month, so it's time for a summary of what I've read this month as well as this month's book haul.


Books I've read
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Mother's Beloved - Stories from Laos by Outshine Bounyavong
The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag
Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
Plikt by Marianne Clementine Håheim

Book haul
Thazarens makt: Herskeren av Marianne Nelvik (press copy)
The Story So Far by Jane Eklund
The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
Tethered by Bryce Gibson
The Resort by Bryce Gibson
Perennials by Bryce Gibson
The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Hunden fra Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sendebudet by Yoko Tawada
I to tusen år by Mihail Sebastian
Jeg har fotografert deg mens du sover by Alicia Thi Nguyen Ryberg
Fuglepust by Klaus Böldl
Barkefjører by Frank Eriksen
Jenta som skrev i silke by Kelli Estes
Sangen om den røde rubin by Agnar Mykle
Kjærlighet på menyen by Nicolas Barreau
Plikt by Marianne Clementine Håheim
Pandemi! by Slavoj Zizek
Beara by Ivica Dikic
I udyrets hage by Leïla Slimani
Skyggedanseren by Sara Omar
Det åttende livet (til Brilka) by Nino Haratischwili
Nocturnal Light: Sufi Poems by Aïda Touré
Frangipani by Célestine Vaite
A Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir
The Consequences of Love by Sulaiman Addonia

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