Insert Literary Pun Here's video: Big Wrap Up Central Eastern Europe 2021

Bookshop.org (US): https://bookshop.org/shop/insertlitpun Blackwell's (UK, free US shipping): https://www.blackwells.co.uk?a_aid=insertlitpun [Note: These are affiliate links. No pressure at all to buy from these sources (or to buy books in the first place), but if you do choose to buy through these links, I'll receive a small portion of the sale with no extra cost to you.] Books Mentioned: -Gerta by Kateřina Tučková (translated from Czech by Véronique Firkusny) -The Hot Summer of 1968 by Viliam Klimáček (translated from Slovak by Peter Petro) -Full written Open Letters review: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-hot-summer-of-1968-by-villiam-klimacek -Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová (translated from Slovak by Janet Livingstone) -Current reads discussion: https://youtu.be/llWM1IQFgd4?t=676 -Abigail by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix) -The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović (translated from Slovene by Olivia Hellewell) -Balkans Wrap Up discussion: https://youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=844 -Favorites of 2021: https://youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=833 -My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović (translated from Bosian by Celia Hawkesworth) -Balkans Wrap Up discussion: https://youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=560 -To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova -Balkans Wrap Up discussion: https://youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=299 -Favorites of 2021: https://youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=911 -The Doll by Ismail Kadare (translated from Albanian by John Hodgson) -Balkans Wrap Up discussion: https://youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=56 -Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort (translated from Belarusian by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Franz Wright) -Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort -Favorites of 2021: https://youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=661 -The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) -Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustová (translated from Spanish by Julie Jones) -Favorites of 2021: https://youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=107 -The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen -Favorites of 2021: https://youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=559 -The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport -Chatty discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x_DzQ-jTZk -The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway) -Full video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2i44NjoJpA -Favorites of 2021: https://youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=423 Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InsertLitPun Find me on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/32647049-jennifer-insert-lit-pun This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself. 00:00 Hewo 00:35 Czechia 02:48 Slovakia 06:00 Hungary 07:00 Slovenia 07:57 Bosnia 09:02 Macedonia, Albania, & Greece 10:05 Albania 10:57 Belarus 15:15 Russia 18:34 Georgia 19:09 Bai