I talk about books on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/-3_uqx3eiF4
#PoetryMonth #TransGirlApril #PeopleApril #PictureThis2024 #Indigenous #Queer #WomenInTranslation #audiobooks #kidlit
I talk about books on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/-3_uqx3eiF4
#PoetryMonth #TransGirlApril #PeopleApril #PictureThis2024 #Indigenous #Queer #WomenInTranslation #audiobooks #kidlit
Originally published in chapters in a monthly literary journal in 1978-79, this quiet Japanese novel follows a year in the life of a sleep-deprived mother and her child after her husband leaves her. She is not always a good mother, but she does her best. I could relate to her failings, like when she left it to the very last minute to invite guests to her daughter‘s 3rd birthday. The subtle power of this story crept up on me. #womenintranslation
February 16: poetry as refuge; queer history + fiction from Japan, Finland, Canada, UK & Australia
https://youtu.be/yjknPyadxC8
#booktube #CanLit #womenintranslation #audiobooks
Things are getting tense in The Rose Code!
Ten Women will go into hibernation now that #womenintranslation month is over. I might do the same with the Allende because of WWII overload with Rose Code.
Meanwhile, the Fellowship has made it to Lorien. I love finding new details with each reread. In the last chapter it was the magic, feet-soothing water of the River Nimrodel. Wouldn‘t that be nice to have IRL?
#bookreport
https://youtu.be/NAW_ucCwvMk?si=30H95vvGzCU8BlQf
#womenintranslation
#WITmonth
Intro
Weekly Highlights
The True Story of Ida Johnson by Sharon Riis
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien
On the Side of the Angels by Betty Miller
Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Bernard Saladin d'Anglure & Peter Frost (Translators)
https://youtu.be/5p2BakXvTR0
#womenintranslation
#WITmonth
Intro
Weekly Highlights
The Accompanist by Nina Berberova, Marian Schwartz & William Collins (Translators)
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
True Biz by Sara Nović
Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator)
It‘s good that I picked The Rose Code as my next mystery, even though the book club meeting isn‘t for a few weeks, because it‘s 646 pages!
Ten Women is for #womenintranslation month and #ReadingTheAmericas but it‘s a bit depressing so far.
Children of God is very interesting so far.
Frodo and company are about to leave The Shire.
#weeklyforecast
Friday Reads August 11: #QueerActivism #WomenInTranslation #Inuit #Folklore #Science #Classics
https://youtu.be/Skkiz6K8QU8
I sometimes get confused keeping track of readathon goals, but I‘m trying again with #RushAthon this month. These are the books I want to read, in no particular order (except for one that‘s a sequel).
-Ten Women
-The Hobbit
-Romantic Comedy
-The Sparrow ➡️ Children of God
-The Memory of Animals
-The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope
…and maybe more?
#WomenInTranslation #CampLitsy #LotRChapterADay #ReadingtheAmericas2023 #bookclub #52mysteries
i would have liked to have gotten to know the characters a little more intimately, but overall i enjoyed the gorgeous prose and the examination of loss. this is my first han kang novel, so i‘m looking forward to reading more of her works.
#womenintranslation #translatedfiction