A good summer reading month! I ventured into some reading that I usually do not pay attention to and was repaid with a couple of outstanding novels. Simply because of my reading preferences I miss out on books coming from the UK, as well as the vast offerings coming from Asian countries. Luckily, I spread my attention and experienced Daisy Johnson’s ‘Everything Under’ and Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian,’ two wonderful stories I highly recommend. I can also add to that list ‘Tropic of Violence’ by Natacha Appanah, an impressive French language read that blew me away.

July STATS in brief: 10 books read (8 in English translation); 3 short story collections; 7 novels; 2422 pages; 8 languages represented, 9 countries; 7 ebooks and 3 real books; authors: 2 male, 7 female; translators: 3 male, 5 female.