Joumana Khatib
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I know myself well enough that this is going to sound like parody, but I will read any book that doesn't have a plot.
I will read any book about a narrator in some kind of lowercase d distress.
I don't like true crime.
I think left to my own devices, I tend to read mostly fiction.
I salivate at translated fiction.
I think that's very exciting.
And I like a book that really surprises me.
Oh, and also the dialogue can't be bad.
That is something that will make me put down a book, is really bad spoken conversation.
That's all I read.
Especially a single one.
Okay, so one of my best reading experiences was, no surprise, was a translated novel, translated from the Swedish.
This is The Colony by Annika Norlin.
It's a debut novel.
And the premise is actually pretty fascinating.
So our sort of avatar is this journalist who's totally burnt out.
She can't pick up the phone.
She's just like, she's beyond spent.