Sparkling September reads

Lots of my reading this month was shaped by super September readathons so thanks to all the hosts including ‪@TooManyHeathers‬ for #shortyseptember, ‪@HannahsBooks‬ ‪@heathergregg9975‬ and ‪@bouquinsbooks‬ for #framed and ‪@booksimnotreading‬ for #shaketember


0:00 Intro and Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
2:52 The Director by Daniel Kehlman translated by Ross Benjamin for #readingtheglobefiction2025
Live show with ‪@PageTurnersWithKatja‬ and Amelia Reads https://www.youtube.com/live/ywqSvX0q...
4:01 Isola by Allegra Goodman. Thank you again Ali.
7:00 The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine read with the lovely Piñeiro Project group led by ‪@BookChatWithPat8668‬
9:45 Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough read with ‪@shawnbreathesbooks‬ Patreon group
11:10 Shorties...
11:55 Starlight and Moonshine by Joseph O'Malley AKA ‪@TootightLautrec‬
See Joe in conversation with Shawn    • Friday Reads: 'The world is full of wonder...   and Tootight's announcement    • Glitterature Alley presents the LAUNCH of ...  
12:58 I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness by Irene Solà translated by Mara Faye Lethem. Hear more about this one    • I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Dar...  
13:50 Madonna in a Fur Coat Sabahattin by Ali translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman translated by Ros Schwartz
17:20 The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra translated by Megan McDowell and A Bookshop in Algiers by Kauother Adini translated by Chris Andrews
21:00 The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (thanks Angelia ‪@readandre-read‬ )
23:53 Gauguin The Other World by Fabrizio Dori translated by Edward Gauvin and The Book of Sarah by Sarah Lightman