Classes from my first semester (including my class with Gospodinov):    • School started and I lost my mind  

Books Mentioned:
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale)
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios (translated from Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko)
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland (translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson)
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel)
Mondegreen: Songs About Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko (translated from Ukrainian by Mark Andryczyk)
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek (translated from Czech by M. and R. Weatherall)
The Cowards by Josef Škvorecký (translated from Czech by Jeanne Němcová)
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal (translated from Czech by Paul Wilson)
City of Torment by Daniela Hodrová (translated from Czech by Véronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol)
Dream of a Journey: Selected Poems by Kateřina Rudčenková (translated fromm Czech by Alexandra Büchler)
Everything I Don't Know: Selected Poems by Jerzy Ficowski (translated from Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer)
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri
Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism by Jelena Subotić
Jozef Pilsudki (Józef Piłsudski): Founding Father of Modern Poland by Joshua D. Zimmerman
Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow by Natalka Bilotserkivets (translated from Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky)
Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation by Jessie Labov
The Fawn by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)


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00:00 Introoo
01:12 My grad school classes
02:34 Summer plans
03:44 Reading changes
04:30 My bookbuying evolution
06:05 Books of 2020
06:26 Books of 2021
07:38 Books of 2022: Part 1
08:23 Books of 2022: Part 2
15:25 Books of 2023
17:12 Final tally