Hopefully I will have the time to read more than one book this month, but if I do only read one it will be The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz. I read a lot of books written by authors from the Middle East. The Harafish is a series of episodes in the lives of several generations of an Egyptian family so I think it will be an interesting journey through the way the politics and history of the region affected the lives of ordinary people, as well as being a good family saga.
I've also recently picked up a copy of Kenneth William's Diaries and my intention is that during the month I'll be picking my way through that as well.
My health wasn't very good in December and I feel like I spent most of it asleep. However I did re-read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, a perennial favourite of mine; and East Wind, West Wind by Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr, which is set in Iraq in the 1950s. It's a story, about life in a camp at an oil well, told from two different perspectives both describing events that occur among the British managers who run the oil well. It's a mix of scandal, gossip and eventually betrayal. It was an enjoyable read.
Hello Anne. Welcome to this great book challenge. I must admit I dipped in last year but want to keep up the momentum this year as I've got so many books I want to read. Have you read The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys? It is set in the Caribbean and is the prequel to Jane Eyre and a back story of Bertha Rochester the so called mad woman in the attic. I loved Jane Eyre and wasn't sure how I would enjoy it, but I did very much. Happy reading :))
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