Books Bought, Books Read May 2021 (Asian Pacific Islanders Month).

Books Purchased May 2021

1. Status Update by George Toles (paper). from amazon. 3 May.
2. Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth. (audible audiobook). 4 May.
3. The Counterlife by Philip Roth. (audible audiobook and kindle). 4 May.
4. Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Claudia Roth Pierpont. (kindle).  6 May.
5. Your House Will Pay: A Novel by  Steph Cha. (audible audiobook). May 6, 2021
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo. (audible audiobook). 6 May
7. Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki. (kindle). 8 May.
8. Translating Mo'Um by Cathy Park Hong. (paper). from amazon. 14 May.
9. Engine Empire: Poems by Cathy Park Hong. (paper). from amazon. 14 May.
10. Dance Dance Revolution: Poems by Cathy Park Hong. (paper). from amazon. 14 May.
11. The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine. (audible audiobook and kindle). 23 May.
12. American Pastoral by Philip Roth. (audible audiobook). 23 May.
13. Lurkers by Sandi Tan. (kindle). 22 May.
14. Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch (kindle). 22 May. bought after hearing an interview with the author on bookworm.
15. The Joy Luck Club: A Novel by Amy Tan. (kindle). 22 May.
16. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist. (kindle). 22 May.
17. The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) by Rumi. (paper). from amazon. 25 May.
18. Rumi: Unseen Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series). (hardcover). from amazon. 25 May.
19. The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya. (kindle). 29 May
20. The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham. (kindle). 29 May.

Books Read May 2021

1. Zuckerman Bound by Philip Roth. (library hardcover and audible audiobook). 700 pgs. 700 running pgs. 4 May.
2. The Counterlife by Philip Roth. (kindle and audible audiobook). 335 pgs. 1035 running pgs. 6 May.
3. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo. (kindle and audible audiobook). 290 pgs. 1325 running pgs. 7 May.
4. Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri. (kindle). 192 pgs. 1517 running pgs. 8 May.
5. Operation Shylock: A confession by Philip Roth. (library hardcover and audible audiobook). 398 pgs. 1915 running pgs. 10 May.
6. Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha. (kindle and audible audiobook). 318 pgs. 2233 running pgs. 12 May.
7. Minor Feelings: An Asian American reckoning by Cathy Park Hong. (kindle and overdrive audiobook). 224 pgs. 2457 running p[gs. 14 May.
8. Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth. (kindle). 465 pgs. 2922 running pgs. 23 May.
9. A Burning by Megha Majumdar. (kindle and overdrive audiobook). 288 pgs. 3210 running pgs. 24 May.
10. American Pastoral by Philip Roth. (kindle and audible audiobook). 435 pgs. 3645 running pgs. 26 May.