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#ReadTheWorld2025

In May and June I added 5 books to @GatheringBooks challenge. I covered the following countries: #Palestine #Suriname #Brazil #Nigeria #Israel

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@TheSpineView

#whine

Just after @Graywacke ‘s review that should encourage me to continue, I do bail on this one. It reads like a fever dream, these memoirs of a Surinam-Dutch woman but I can‘t make head nor tail of it. #bookerinternational #ReadTheWorld2025 book 16 #Suriname

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#undo
@TheSpineView

I‘m not quite sure how best to describe this tragic romance wrapped up in a slave narrative. Although seeming strangely uneven to me in the way Oroonoko was treated, it details the brutality of slavery. I can appreciate its impact when written by a woman and published in 1688.

I had this in my TBR for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 but just got to it today. #Suriname

#1001books #audiobook

This book, published in 1688, is brutal, by a woman “often cited as the first known professional female writer.” Prince Oroonoko‘s betrothed is sold into slavery. Then he is tricked by an evil English slave trader and sold into slavery. Shipped to #Suriname, he finds his lover owned by the same master. Initially treated well because of his royalty, he is betrayed again. So he kills his love, and himself in the most gruesome of ways. All of this ⬇️

My next audiobook for #Suriname for #ReadingtheAmericas

This is one of the 3 countries I have left for this challenge.

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Despite being one of the books I was more intrigued about from the NBA translated literature list (plus, it made the shortlist), this just didn‘t do anything for me. It tended to jump around in a way I didn‘t like, I didn‘t care for the writing, and it didn‘t have a strong sense of place in #Suriname.

#ReadingAmericas2023

A timely post from the British Museum about a woman well before her time documenting insects in #Surinam from 1699-1701. #readingtheamericas

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqh2A0Eq9w_/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Last list of the night, I promise! I‘ve made myself a list of possible books to find to complete a couple of challenges, #readingtheamericas and #authoramonth

See any you particularly recommend? Do you recommend any other books for these countries? They‘re on this list because I don‘t have a book yet for that country, or for Salmon Rushdie