Nej, mars blev inte den läsmånad jag hade hoppats, så några av böckerna är med denna månad också.
Ljudböcker
Jag har knappt två timmar kvar på Taiwan Travelogue, som gick vidare till kortlistan för Internationella Bookerpriset.
Den här har jag inte hunnit börja på, men vill gärna lyssna, så den är med igen.
Sedan har jag hittat några nominerade till Women's Price for Fiction 2026:
A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand her, her mother’s attention is given to the Church, and the entire family lives at the whims of her father’s quick temper.
Left to herself, Mercy finds solace in books, her imagination, and the quiet comfort of her faithful toy, Dolly. But escapism has its limits, and as the grip of family, faith and fear threatens to close in, Mercy learns she must act if she wants a different future; one where she is seen, heard, and her family set free.
When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants.
While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods. As he slips between his old life and this new one, his fixation grows into something more powerful. The poet, his Kingfisher, is his sole focus. He is hypnotised.
Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call-there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her. This man isn’t the Ba Qianze remembers: he is much older, more fragile, and worst of all, haunted by a half-forgotten prophecy.
In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse, with all the treasured immigration documents within it, has been stolen.
Och lite annat:
Jag vet inte varifrån jag fått nys om denna, men jag vill gärna lyssna på den.
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too-many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one had made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials, but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers and don’t speak a common language, Vänna determines to do whatever it takes to save him.
Jag ska ner en sväng till mor i Skåne och med 16 timmar i bilen, fram och tillbaka, kan det passa att lyssna på tredje delen i Knausgårds serie.
Böcker
Med tanke på hur det gick i mars, så är det ju knappt att jag vågar lista några böcker här, men en Trananbok ska jag i alla fall välja och det får bli denna:
Jag behöver en bok för Naturlig läsning också och jag tänkte göra ett tredje försök med den här. Jag har givit upp två gånger för att jag har tyckt att det har varit så jäkla illa skriven (översatt?), men alla andra verkar ju älska den. Och jag älskar träd.
I övrigt får vi se om jag lyckas läsa något av det som jag inte lyckades med i mars. Nu börjar trädgårdssäsongen, så jag har inte alltför stora förhoppningar, men kanske funkar det att läsa när jag är nere hos mamma, så att jag hinner klämma några titlar.
