
April 2019: Book of the Month
May 18, 2019
We’re already in the middle of May, so this post is coming a bit late – but now that I’m actually keeping track of what I’m reading, I can curate my favourite book of the month. But first, let’s have a look at the books I finished in April:
- Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens
- Forgotten Girl by Eva-Maria Silber
- Das siebte Kreuz by Anna Seghers
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- My Own Devices by Dessa
- A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- How to Like Everything: A Utopia by Paul Shepheard
- Erde und Asche by Atiq Rahimi
- Hundehaut by Fatos Kongoli
- Class War: The Privatization of Childhood by Megan Erickson
- “Ihr seid hier im Paradies”: meine Kindheit in Nordkorea by Hyok Kang
Now to the big question: comparing all of these, which one was my favourite of the bunch? There are a few close contestors: Murder Most Unladylike, Hundehaut, Erde und Asche, and Ihr seid hier im Paradies were all great – and they’re all very different from one another, which makes the decision even harder. If I had to choose one though, I think I would take Murder Most Unladylike, just because it was so much fun to read.
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