After a year of really, really hard work I am taking a well-deserved vacation to the Dalmatian Coast. I plan to lie on a beach and read for a week.
Oh, and write that piece I have due on July 12th. And work on this other essay. And revise my Rhys chapter. And…
Yeah. But I will only have occasional internet access, so that is what makes this a vacation!
Here's what I'm packing:
Charlotte Mandell's translation of Mathias Enard's Zone (ok that's a Word doc, since it won't appear in book form til September)
Courtney Angela Brkic, Stillness and The Stone Fields
Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Sonya Chung, Long For this World
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence
Simone de Beauvoir, La force de l'age
Emmanuel Carrère, Un roman russe
Karin Albou, La grande fete
Peter Carey, Wrong About Japan
…should be enough to keep me busy!
Anyone have any other books about Croatia I should read? It'll have to wait til after I get back, but tell me anyway!
Happy vacationing! Looks like you have plenty to keep you busy while you are, ahem, relaxing.
As far as books about Croatia, I remember back in the 90s when the war was going on that a book called Zlata’s Diary came out. She was a Croatian girl living in Sarajevo during the war and journaling about her experiences from 1991 to 1993.
http://www.amazon.com/Zlatas-Diary-Childs-Life-Sarajevo/dp/0670857246
I’d always wanted to read that. I remember the positive press and reviews back in ’94 or so when it was released.
I’m also guessing that Zlata is in her early 30s now. I’l going to have to see if there is any info online about what she is doing now.
Be well, and safe travels to you.
P.S. A quick search on Zlata Filipovic yields information that she lived in Paris starting in 1993, when she and her family fled to Paris from Sarajevo. Zlata and her family moved to Dublin a couple of years later. I never knew there was a Paris connection to her story.
She has most recently worked on the book Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
Interesting stuff! (To me, anyway. But I’m intrigued by the Balkans and the people there.)
that sounds lovely… have fun!
Lauren, have a beautiful time! How lovely to do that…thinking of you. EJ
Wishing you a well-deserved rest! Your luggage appears rather full with that reading list. Interesting article in the NYTimes today regarding proposed changes to admissions at “grandes écoles”.
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