May 31, 2023
As chosen by our Patrons (plus Corinne), our extra book for May is Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov. Gospodinov is Bulgarian, thus fulfilling the prompt to read a book by an author from a country you've never been to, as neither of us have been to Bulgaria. And as a bonus, Time Shelter was announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize recently!
Content warnings: mentions of suicide, euthanasia, Alzheimer's, war, none of which we go into great detail about
Our next book discussion is The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us!
If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2023, you can find Instagram graphics for your story or grid in this Google Drive folder. You can also join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each month and get ideas for your TBR: The Bookstore Challenge 2023.
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