recent reads #9

Those are not so recent reads but I didn’t know what to name the post, the books I read during August September and October would be more correct but that’s too long don’t you think that too? ANYWAY even though I wasn’t writing a lot lately I have been reading and a lot and those are the books I had the honor to read in the last three months:

_ Four graphic novels: 

MAUS by Art Spiegelman: the story is about the holocaust, the author is actually the son of a man who survived the genocide, so the book tells the surviving story of the dad, the thing that I liked about this book is that it goes back and forth between the past and the present showing that even though that man survived he didn’t really survive he carried with him scars from that war that neither time nor doctors would ever heal,  a five star book all the way.

L’espion de Staline by Isabel Kreitz: another true story about a double agent who was working as a journalist for Germany and spying on it for Russia, the story seemed interesting and took place in Japan during world war two this book had all the potential to be a great read yet the drawing was so bad I couldn’t figure out who was who, while reading I kept looking at the last pages of the book were there was the pics and the names of the characters, and that was so tiring, I gave the book two stars because of the poor drawing.

The stranger by Albert Camus a graphic novel adaption done by Jacque Ferrandez: the story is really famous but I didn’t read it before and I think I should have read the actual book then read its graphic novel adaptation but it’s ok I’m definitely going to read it one day, I think the graphic novel was great the drawing was good, the story is just strong and the idea behind is so deep but still I should read the book to give a solid opinion about it.

Pyongyang by Guy Delisle: the book is a carnet de voyage of the author in his business trip to North Korea, it’s a really interesting read for someone who knows nothing about how it is like to travel to that country either for tourism or work, the book is nothing more than that, I wished that it would held more. since I already watched documentaries about north Korea there was nothing new for me in this book but still the book was good. reading about north Korea makes living in a third world country in Africa look not that bad after all.

_ Classic short stories by Kafka and Chekhov:

If you ever read for those two authors you are really missing a lot they are just geniuses, reading for them isn’t easy the plot can be so slow but once you finish the story it’s going to stay with you for the rest of your life and I’m not exaggerating.

_ More of Mohamed Choukri and discovering Abdellah Taia:

I read my forth book written by Mohamed Chokri, Wojouh or faces which the third book of the author’s autobiography; but it’s really different from the two books before it you can’t tell if it follows a chronology it’s more about people Mohamed Chokri met through his life, I don’t know if I like this book as much as the first ones but certainly it’s an interesting read the last part of the book was SO good.

I also read 3 books by Abdellah Taia, and they were all amazing, this author has a really simple smooth style; I wasn’t exepecting to like his work this much I wished they weren’t that short, I read l’armée du salut, le jour du roi and une melancolie arabe and I’m willing to read every single book written by this author, if I have to choose a favorite among the book I read I’d choose le jour du roi it was amazing I don’t know if it’s right to compare  authors but reading that book made me think of haruki murakami’s style and I don’t mind that since I love so much haruki marakami.

_ Other books that I couldn't put in a category:

Finished reading the Millennium series and I have to say I don't consider this book from as part of the series for it's just fanfiction the series has only three books and that's only my personnal opinion yet this book wasn't that bad.

My first book by Albert Camus it’s a play based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist Revolutionaries who assassinated the Duke in 1905. A five stars book it was so deep yet written in really simple style. 

I don't know what to say about this book, maybe not as good as everyone on the net say it is maybe it's just not my style. I gave it two stars and I hardly finish it.

what a long article I wrote, I know filled with mistakes but I felt like I should write it now I feel relieved I can move with my life hhh.