Oh, thank you! You mentioned Mahfouz in your other rec, too :D I'm definitely going to pick up his "Children of the Alley", which seems fascinating both in its subject and reception history.
Antigonick sounds amazing! A very experimental approach - I guess this will be one of those books one does not read at once, but enjoys over the course of several days or weeks. Nice, definitely on my list with it. (Antigone itself is such a great play!)
Connie Willis has been a bit of a meh experience for me. I read her "Doomsday Book" in 2011 and for me, it was rather a disappointment. I'll give her another try, just perhaps not very soon. I'm still too sad disliking Doomsday Book so much, because award-winning science fiction by women is usually the very thing I love and be very passionate of recommending others (see LeGuin, Piercy, McHugh, Russ).
I'll keep the rest in mind, though they may be a bit too onto the historical fiction side by me. I sometimes enjoy this kind of books, but I usually need to know the author before and to know that I like them to pick a book up.
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Antigonick sounds amazing! A very experimental approach - I guess this will be one of those books one does not read at once, but enjoys over the course of several days or weeks. Nice, definitely on my list with it.
(Antigone itself is such a great play!)
Connie Willis has been a bit of a meh experience for me. I read her "Doomsday Book" in 2011 and for me, it was rather a disappointment. I'll give her another try, just perhaps not very soon. I'm still too sad disliking Doomsday Book so much, because award-winning science fiction by women is usually the very thing I love and be very passionate of recommending others (see LeGuin, Piercy, McHugh, Russ).
I'll keep the rest in mind, though they may be a bit too onto the historical fiction side by me. I sometimes enjoy this kind of books, but I usually need to know the author before and to know that I like them to pick a book up.