I went to one my local indie bookstores on Saturday, Malvern Books, and could have easily spent all afternoon looking through the shelves. The store is not very large but it has a wonderful section of works in translation, NYRB classics, poetry and of course independent presses. As it was Independent Bookstore day there was also a bookstore crawl event happening which meant that a lot of the visitors to the bookstore were on a scavenger hunt. I saw lots of people taking selfies with books. Too cool.
I didn’t do the scavenger hunt but I was on a bit of a hunt. I wanted to find a couple of books that would be outside of my usual reading comfort zone. Here are the two I found:
High Tide by Inga Abele. Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is the story of Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband, and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted the rest of their lives. I have not read anything by a Latvian author so I’m very excited about this one even though I’ve read a couple of reviews that make me think this may be a challenging read.
Homesick by Eshkol Nevo. This remarkable, kaleidoscopic novel tells the fragmented stories of a group of women and men brought together by chance in a small neighborhood in the hills of Israel. This is also a a book with a setting very different from the ones I typically read.
Now how about you? Do you have some new books for the month?
Both of these books sound interesting. I hope you enjoy them, Iliana. 🙂
I like that you support local bookstores, Iliana. I don’t much anymore, which is a shame. The scavenger hunt sounds like fun!
Oh those both sound really good! Can’t wait to hear more about them!
Both of these are new to me; hope you enjoy them. I enjoy NYRB Classics and collected them for a while.
I love Indie bookstores! they both sound good, especially High Tide. Enjoy 🙂 I don’t have any new books here lately but I am reading from my TBR mountain (Gulp by Mary Roach and OITNB by Piper Kerman).