The Tartar Steppe | 
We combined two episodes into one this week. First, we nominate some legal thrillers for our thriller book club that we have a great time doing over on our patreon. (No pressure to join but our patreons get exclusive episodes and help us select books to read) And finally we nominate and select a new September book to read. Fun episode all around. Hope you enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HdN8G9WCSmra1v1EL8HwV
pickDetailed review here-:https://myliteraryramblings.in/2020/06/20/the-tartar-steppe-dino-buzzati/
Now he felt a certain bitterness, a dark shadow, such as come when moments of destiny pass us by without touching us and the noise of their passing dies away in the distance while we remain alone amid a swirl of dead leaves lamenting the great – and terrible – opportunity we have lost." (from "The Tartar Steppe (Canons Book 90)" by Dino Buzzati, Tim Parks, Stuart C. Hood)
pickAmazing book. Amazing characters. Amazing writing. Dino makes even a desert and a lonely fort into an interesting place to be in. Really resonated with me, especially concerning the things we sacrifice to achieve our "desired" goals.
pickWhat an odd book. I couldn‘t stop reading, even though not much happens—which is part of the point. And everything that does happen is heartbreaking. #1001books #reading1001
pickWhat a strangely compelling book! Young officer Giovanni Drogo is posted to a remote fortress high in the mountains bordering the tartar steppe. There he waits for an enemy no-one had seen for generations. Buzzati's writing has a hypnotic quality, at once languid and laced with tension that perfectly relays the feeling of monotony and the desperation for something to happen ⬇️
so-soLieutenant Giovanni Drogo is stationed in a fortress in the mountains, where the military have been waiting for centuries for the Tartar. No one has ever seen them, nor is there any way they could have attacked the fortress by surprise because there are no roads at all.
With little to do, Drogo decides to leave as soon as possible. He stays however for more than 40 years and watches his life going by in an endless daily routine. #1001books
