{"id":6803,"date":"2025-01-08T22:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/november-2024-reading-round-up-nose-in-a-book\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:05:53","slug":"november-2024-reading-round-up-nose-in-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6803","title":{"rendered":"November 2024 reading round-up | Nose in a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"posted-on\"><i class=\"fa fa-calendar\"\/> <time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2024-12-01T23:13:52+01:00\">December 1, 2024<\/time><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2024-12-02T23:18:12+01:00\">December 2, 2024<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2qxFwec\"><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54179777405_2bf99cd063_z.jpg\" alt=\"Beckett meets Ted\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well that was November. We had snow! I met my Dad\u2019s puppy! Also there were fireworks for weeks, which is not great with a nervous dog. And my shoulder pain is back with a vengeance. Chronic illness is fun.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t speed through books this month. Pain makes concentration harder, so I watched a lot more TV instead. We\u2019re most of the way through season one of <i>Three Body Problem<\/i> \u2013 based on <a href=\"https:\/\/noseinabook.co.uk\/2015\/07\/19\/cornwall-reads-in-brief\/\">the book by Cixin Liu<\/a> \u2013 and I\u2019m also most of the way through the K-drama <i>Hometown Cha-cha-cha<\/i>. One of those is considerably lighter on the ol\u2019 brain.<\/p>\n<p>I went with friends to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/bristololdvic.org.uk\/blog\/full-creative-team-announced-for-world-premiere-of-never-let-me-go\">stage production of <i>Never Let Me Go<\/i><\/a> \u2013 based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro \u2013 at Bristol Old Vic. It was excellent. Tissues definitely required. I also went with the same friends to an evening of traditional Egyptian and Lebanese music. We sat on cushions on the floor, drinking tea \u2013 a very chill night out.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas activities have already begun. I took my Mum to see <a href=\"https:\/\/bristol-cathedral.co.uk\/event\/luxmuralis-in-the-beginning\/2024-11-25\/\"><i>Luxmuralis: <\/i><i>In the Beginning<\/i> at Bristol Cathedral<\/a> \u2013 a light art installation that tells the story of the Nativity through laser projections. It\u2019s a bit cheesy but also quite impressive. And again, quite chill.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8318\"\/>Happy December folks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Books read<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Alys, Always<\/i> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrietlane.co.uk\/\">Harriet Lane<\/a><br \/><\/b>This is an intriguing novel, a story told in the tone of a thriller that isn\u2019t quite one. We meet Frances \u2013 a narrator who feels quintessentially unreliable \u2013 as she is driving home one night. She stumbles upon the aftermath of a car accident in time to speak to the driver as they die. Cut to a few weeks later and she is asked to meet the victim\u2019s family \u2013 a request she only agrees to when she discovers they\u2019re famous. It\u2019s creepy but always remains just the right side of believable.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Pyre<\/i> by <a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/authors\/perumal-murugan\">Perumal Murugan<\/a><br \/><\/b>Translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan<br \/>Another novel with a mounting sense of dread \u2013 but here the title gives us a pretty strong sense of where we\u2019re headed. A couple meet in a small Indian city, marry and head to the small rural village where he is from. But everyone there \u2013 including his mother \u2013 immediately clocks that his bride is from a different caste. From the first day they are persistently told to leave, that she doesn\u2019t belong, that she will be killed if she stays. This horror is juxtaposed with flashbacks to their sweet courtship.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Transmigration of Bodies<\/i> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andotherstories.org\/authors\/yuri-herrera\/\">Yuri Herrera<\/a><br \/><\/b>Translated from Spanish by Lisa Dillman<br \/>A strange novella. In the midst of a pandemic, The Redeemer \u2013 a fixer for mobsters in an unnamed Mexican city \u2013 tries to broker peace between feuding families. It\u2019s darkly funny. He just wants to buy condoms to enable his affair with a neighbour but all the pharmacies are shuttered, with handwritten signs declaring they\u2019re out of facemasks. Instead he has to locate and return people, dead bodies and possibly a house. An odd but enjoyable read.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Lyrics Alley<\/i> by <a href=\"https:\/\/leila-aboulela.com\/\">Leila Aboulela<\/a><br \/><\/b>This was quite beautiful. Loosely based on the life of the author\u2019s uncle, this is the story of a Sudanese-Egyptian family in the 1950s. British rule is coming to a close and it\u2019s potentially a good time to be a rich, well-respected Sudanese businessman like Mahmoud Bey. But when his most promising son suffers a horrid accident, the dynamics of the entire extended family \u2013 and the people around them \u2013 are forced to change.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Girl, Serpent, Thorn<\/i> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissabashardoust.com\/\">Melissa Bashardoust<\/a><br \/><\/b>A romantic fantasy novel based on Persian fairytales, this starts out a little cheesy but I thought it improved on that front. Soraya is a princess whose touch is deadly poison to any human or animal. She lives not exactly a prisoner in the palace but she is by necessity isolated. The capture of a demon by a handsome new officer in the royal guard offers an opportunity to shed her curse \u2013 but at what cost?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1, 2024December 2, 2024 Well that was November. We had snow! 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