JFF: What are the last three books you read?

Les marins ne savent pas nager  by Dominique Scali (4/5)

Now, I have read all the books that I need to read as a member of the jury of the Prix littéraire des collégiens.

AUDIOBOOK:

Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky. 4/5.

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. Reread. 4/5. I guess it would be the same score. Never rated it before.

Slip Runner (Slip Runner #1) by J.N. Chatney. 1/5.

Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan. 3/5.

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu. 5/5.

The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi. 5/5. Supposedly The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (my favorite film from 2018) is based on the sequel novel to this. I own the hardcover to that. So will read someday. And the author apparently wrote most of the episodes to The Eccentric Family (2013– ). One of my personal favorite anime series.

MANGA/GRAPHIC NOVEL:

A First Time for Everything by Dan Santant. 4/5.

Laid-Back Camp, Vol. 5, 6, and 7: All 5/5.

Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 18, 19, 14, and 20. 3/5; 4/5; 5/5 respectively.

Land of the Lustrous, Vol. 1 (Land of the Lustrous, #1) and 2: 3/5 and 5/5 respectively.

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou 6] (Girls' Last Tour, #6), 5/5. Manga series complete.

Updates

Read: 

La place by Annie Ernaux (5/5)

Chocolaté by Samy Manga (3/5)

J'ai montré toutes mes pattes blanches je n'en ai plus by Sylvie Laliberté (4/5)

Currently reading:

Le livre des soeurs by Amélie Nothomb (66% read)

I met Amélie Nothomb in Quebec. I bought two books, this one and Premier Sang. I gave away my autographed copy of Le livre des soeurs to my crush. My copy of Premier Sang is also autographed to my crush's name, but I decided to kept it. 

Picture of me (grey shirt) and Amélie Nothomb: 

My autographed copy of Premier Sang:

Now anyone able to read French knows my crush's first name (not that it matters to me that much).

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (52% read)

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (31% read)

À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust (14% read)

Hiroshima, Mon Amour by Marguerite Duras (5/5)

La vie devant soi by Romain Gary (3/5)

Currently reading:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 55%

Rendez-vous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 31%

À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust 24%

Analytic of the Beautiful by Emmanuel Kant 63%

Finished:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5/5

Analytic of the Beautiful by Emmanuel Kant 5/5

Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk 4/5

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 5/5

24 Hours of a Woman's Life by Stefan Zweig 5/5

Currently reading:

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust (it feels like I am always reading it 😊)

Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military failures in the East 1861-1865 by Michael C C Adams

Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War by Michael C C Adams

The American Civil War: The Emergence of Total Warfare by Robert A Doughty, et. al.

Booktubers are a f### joke. As anyone with the slightest interest in literature knows, Milan Kundera passed away on July 11. As soon as I heard the news, I started getting interested in Kundera, and this weekend I started reading Immortality. Tonight, I said to myself that I was watching what the booktubers thought of Milan Kundera. I went to Jack Edwards' channel, scrolled through his most recent videos. Do I see a R.I.P. in Kundera? No, I see a video about Drake's poetry. It's so depressing. When Kundera died, Europe cried, the earth shook, but clearly the United States did not shudder (except I reckon among the intellectuals).

Finished: 

Immortality by Milan Kundera (4/5)

Ignorance by Milan Kundera (3/5)

The Sufferings of the Young Werther by Goethe (5/5)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2/5)

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (4/5)

Mystère à Shawinigan Falls (3/5)

Currently Reading: 

À la recherche du temps perdu. Marcel Proust

Maybe War and Peace by Tolstoy.

The Memoirs of the Prince DeJoinville I was hoping he had written of his time serving on General McClellan's staff during the Civil War before he was dismissed for geopolitical reasons, but not a word.

The Diary of Gideon Welles, Vols. 1&2 of 3 Behind the scenes as the Secretary of the Navy in the Lincoln and A. Johnson administrations. Too much about local State politics tho'.

Manga:

Finished the 10 volume set of Nichijou. Mostly 4 or 5/5s with one 3/5.

Tomo-chan is a Girl!, Vol. 1 to vol. 8: Vol. 1, 4/5. The rest 5/5.

[Oshi No Ko], Vol. 1 (Oshi no Ko, #1) and Vol. 2: Both 4/5

Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection: 3/5.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 7, 8 and 9: 4/5s and 5/5 respectively.

Wave, Listen to Me!, Vol. 4, 5 and 6: 4/5s and 3/5 respectively.

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1: 5/5.

Graphic Novels:

Hell Phone, Book 1 by Nate Benji. 5/5.

Catboy by Nate Benji. 4/5.

The Con Artists by Luke Healy: 2/5.

Lorna by Nate Benji: 5/5.

Castaways by Pablo Montforte: 5/5.

Audiobooks:

Iced in Paradise (Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery, #1): 5/5.

Election by Tom Peralta: 4/5.

Providence by Max Barry: 1/5.

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: 3/5.

Finished

Sula by Toni Morrison (5/5)

The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russel (4/5)

Armenian Odes by Sayat-Nova (3/5) (very hard to find_

Currently:

War and Peace (485/2078)

In Search of Lost Time (I know).

1. "The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides 
2. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens 
3. "The Dutch House" by Ann Patchett

How to Survive Like a Spy, by Jason Hanson (A nom de plume I would guess.)

And various autobiographies of Civil War soldiers which no one else has read in a hundred years.

I'm a Believer by Micky Dolenz

Infinite Tuesday by Michael Nesmith

They made a Monkee Out of Me by David Jones