>>94665545I read Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz last year on a whim because I saw someone praising it and my parents had a copy on their shelf. Had I had a better idea of the contents, I probably would not have bothered reading it because the summary sounds like something that's not my jam, but going in blind I ended up consuming it in a week and enjoyed it tremendously.
Also read Victor Rydberg's The Last Athenian because I realized I haven't really read any Nordic authors and what better way to fix that than read a book about later Roman Empire? It was actually quite interesting and like so many books that tackle contemporary (and local?) issues by moving them to an entirely different context, it wound up saying something universal in ways that feel quite relevant even today.
Mostly read non-fiction since with a side dash of poetry. The "samizdat"
translation of Songs of Bilitis that's online was actually quite nice.
