1/ My (long) year-end fiction review is here if y'all wanna read it (or if you have some shopping left to do). If not, I'll just do a quick top-12 (I am not good at round numbers) somanybookstoread.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/201…
2/ First, my not-quite-top-of-the-pile pile: "Congo Inc: Bismark's Testament" by In Koli Jean Bofane, excellent African fiction amzn.to/2R0X1tC, "The City Always Wins" by Omar Robert Hamilton about the Arab Spring in Cairo, amzn.to/2Exp5Px
3/ "The Mandarins" by Simone de Beauvoir amzn.to/2EyFSSb, "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee amzn.to/2Lk8QWI, "A Personal Matter" by Kenzaburo Oe amzn.to/2GhTtPC and "Homesick" by Eshkol Nevo.
4/ Now my Top-of-the-pile pile. Therese Bohman's "Eventide" amzn.to/2R29bT0, Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" amzn.to/2rBFzO8 (yeah, I know, didn't get to it until now), Iain Banks' "The Wasp Factory" amzn.to/2QzumMX (man, I miss him)
5/ Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach" amzn.to/2EuNcyg, Matthew Weiner's "Heather: the Totality" amzn.to/2SaeCNm (ok, more a novella but whatevs) and Eshkol Nevo's "Three Floors Up" amzn.to/2QzB71q
6/ Happy reading. Non-fiction list to come over the next week.
