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A review by balletbookworm
The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe by Ann Morgan
5.0
Y'all are going to get really tired of me talking about this book between now and May, when it comes out in the US.
A very well-written examination of why the Anglophone (specifically UK, and US by extension) reading population and publishing arm reads little world literature, particularly in translation, and the roadblocks one encounters when trying to find and read literature (and, by extension, purchase legally) by authors from, say, Burkina Faso or Nepal or Kuwait or Monaco or Lichtenstein. A huge list of books to read can be derived from Ann's work both in the actual 197 books she read in 2012 and the books she references in mulling over her experience.
Recommendation: buy this sucker when it's available in May and read the heck out of it, pen in hand (or buy and read it now if you're in the UK where it's been out since January).
Full disclosure: I read Ann's blog and loved it so when I saw that Norton's Liveright imprint was going to put out the US edition of A Year of Reading the World I hot-footed (hot-typed?) my way to their Twitter account to beg a galley. Which they merrily sent out to me because galleys had just become available. So many thanks to Liveright for the galley
A very well-written examination of why the Anglophone (specifically UK, and US by extension) reading population and publishing arm reads little world literature, particularly in translation, and the roadblocks one encounters when trying to find and read literature (and, by extension, purchase legally) by authors from, say, Burkina Faso or Nepal or Kuwait or Monaco or Lichtenstein. A huge list of books to read can be derived from Ann's work both in the actual 197 books she read in 2012 and the books she references in mulling over her experience.
Recommendation: buy this sucker when it's available in May and read the heck out of it, pen in hand (or buy and read it now if you're in the UK where it's been out since January).
Full disclosure: I read Ann's blog and loved it so when I saw that Norton's Liveright imprint was going to put out the US edition of A Year of Reading the World I hot-footed (hot-typed?) my way to their Twitter account to beg a galley. Which they merrily sent out to me because galleys had just become available. So many thanks to Liveright for the galley