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* The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, by Anne Frank, Otto H. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
I’m only slowly getting into the second half where it becomes (even) bleaker.
* Persuasion, by Jane Austen
Finished. Meh. There were a few mildly amusing episodes, but I just didn’t give a damn on the whole.
* Bambini di Praga 1947, by Bohumil Hrabal
Started. I actually enjoy Hrabal’s sense of humor and playful prose for a change.
* Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations, by Avi Shlaim
Very good so far, as a summary of existing sources (from Israeli archives, Arabic publications and others). I can’t do it justice in this blurb.
* Hebrejky. Biblické matky, démonky, královny i milenky, by Jan Fingerland
A sort of an (incomplete) encyclopaedia of women in the Bible, discusses various interpretations of the characters, from various traditions in Judaism to modern anthropology.
Currently reading **The Old Drift** by Namwali Serpell. This novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2020. It is by a Zambian author and is mostly set in Zambia. Nothing sci-fi has happened yet, so I’m waiting and wondering how that will fit in.