Book 48 - Ann Morgan "Reading the World: How I Read a Book from Every Country"

Ann Morgan "Reading the World: How I Read a Book from Every Country" (Vintage)





Ann Morgan set herself the challenge of reading one book from every country during a year. The individual books are well documented on her blog, and this book takes a step back to give a broader picture of the difficulties of her challenge, reading, translation, globalisation, etc.

If you are casually interested in world literature or enjoy translated fiction, the topics covered will be of interest, giving a personal and accessible view that more academic books may not offer. I have a couple of gripes: occasionally there were factual errors (capital of Australia, Our Musseque being from Equatorial Guinea); the style was a little long-winded, often paraphrasing herself in consecutive sentences. More rigorous editing should have picked these up, or perhaps the intention was for a more chatty style to pick up on the success of the blog. Nevertheless, the book is unique in what it offers and should offer up ideas for books and help you discover and challenge your reading prejudices.