#JumpIntoJanuary Day 1: Here is my #ReadingStats for Read International Literature #ReadIntl2020. While this does not show all the books I read in 2020 (403 in total), here is my round-up for our annual reading theme.
#FallFinds Day 24: This fantasy series is coming from #France and translated from the French - perfect for our #ReadIntl2020 reading theme.
#BeautifulWords Day 25: Clearly, I #love international titles. Here is my List of 10 international titles I wish to read for our #ReadIntl2020 theme and for our #GB101020 Blogiversary. See here for my post: https://wp.me/pDlzr-m5X
Thanks for the tag, @BarbaraTheBibliophage
1️⃣Yes. We do have our #ReadIntl2020 where we read translated titles at GatheringBooks and our usual quarterly reading themes every year. Right now, it is comic mania and I am having so much fun hunting graphic novels that are not originally published in English.
2️⃣Continuing ever forward to push reading boundaries, because to not read is to die, or go slowly insane.🧚🏼♀️📚
#MarchMadness Day 2: This is my #MarchTBR. Top two books are for our #NYRBBookClub. Nearly finished with our February pick and would share my thoughts in the discussion threads ably created by @vivastory and @MicheleinPhilly as soon as I finish reading. All titles fit into our #ReadIntl2020 theme as well.
Really, I am reading the #NYRBBookClub February pick while weekend-ing in Dubai. Promise. Fits our #ReadIntl2020 theme, too!
HEY I'M ALIVE 🤗 Just wanted to put this link out in case anyone is still looking for 2020 reading challenges, b/c this masterlist seems to have something for everyone:
https://www.girlxoxo.com/the-master-list-of-2020-reading-challenges/
#readharder #2020challenge
What are you reading this weekend? Mine is Behrouz Boochani‘s “No Friend But The Mountains” at Jebel Hafeet Mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was a perfect 15-17 degrees this morning. Fridays/Saturdays are the weekend here in the Middle East so husband drove all the way up this mountain peak that borders Oman and United Arab Emirates. The place is gorgeous and reminded us a teeny bit of Grand Canyon, but different. 💕🧚🏼♀️#ReadIntl2020
#FebruaryFeels Day 1: This is what I hope to be my #FebTBR. Looking forward to catching up on the #ScreamsByMail title, if (and when) it reaches me (cross fingers), then #NYRBBookClub February pick, and my #ReadIntl2020 titles for our Year of International Literature - first quarter theme is FANTASY! These translated titles all fit the bill.
This is a somber, heart-wrenching winter read, and I am only in the third chapter. My cushy 15-lb weighted blanket is in direct contrast to everything that Boochani has documented here in all its harrowing truths. Yet he manages to find glimpses of joy, beauty, transcendence in a stranger‘s nod of greeting, a boy clinging to his mother, the luminous moon against dark unforgiving skies. #ReadIntl2020
