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First book of the #Readathon weekend completed! This book includes the stories of three different people in the same apartment building told as confessions. It is stories of the choices and maybe mistakes that they‘ve made and demonstrates how sharing those stories helps them to move forward.

#ReadtheWorld #ReadingtheWorld Israel #translated #LitsyBookClub #audiobook #Hoopla

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Thousands of missing loved ones, “disappeared” by Pinochet‘s security forces, haunt subsequent generations of Chileans. In this dizzying, surreal, gritty, funny and heartbreaking novel, a corpse has gone astray when ash prevents planes from landing in Santiago, prompting the trippiest of road trips. I feel forever changed by my journey through this book, #translated by Sophie Hughes.

My admiration grows the longer I reflect on this queer, peppy time-travel triple narrative set in the Dominican Republic and #translated by Achy Obejas. Can the past be manipulated to avert future ecological disaster? Can altruism triumph over self-interest? A transgender man, Santera sorcery and a magical sea anemone are key elements in this vertiginous exploration of colonialism, gender, art and greed. #LGBTQ

The writing is like Leo Tolstoy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Elena Ferrante. I couldn‘t honestly call The Eighth Life an “easy” read in any sense, but it is a deeply worthwhile one. Your heart will swell, get torn to pieces, then stitched back together again; you‘ll feel part of the Jashi family, with all the joy and devastation that entails. Full review for subscribers: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/new-releases/ #NewBooks #Translated

Long time no-post Litsy friends!! Hope you‘re all well. It‘s been a busy time so I haven‘t been posting but I definitely haven‘t stopped #reading! This is my #currentread after one of my fellow writers and book addicts over at #LiteraryQuicksand posted a review of one of #FredrikBackman‘s books. It‘s pretty sad but also full of hope and heartwarming charm. I love it 💕

#fiction #amreading #translated

From the tale-within-a-tale of whale hunting, to a welcome deus ex machina, to a crosseyed knitting librarian, all elements in this surreal crime novel are carefully plotted. I loved the turns of phrase, #translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell, and was charmed by the MC, an assassin with a conscience. Reseng—his name means Next Life— is just one of many memorable characters in this violent, hopeful, and surprising existential masterpiece.

An engaging, funny, short (4 h) #audiobook performed by BD Wong, #translated from French by Ina Rilke. Surprisingly gentle in light of its setting during Mao‘s brutal Cultural Revolution, it‘s about intellectual freedom & personal independence, told through the escapades of two teenaged sons of doctors who are sent to be “re-educated” through working among former opium farmers in a mountain village in Sichuan in the 1970s.

Just finished it. It kept me intrigued and I was definitely wrong on my guesses for what was going on. But what was going on just kind of felt like a let down. The ending kind of did in general for me. It felt like there was so much build up and then it kind of fell flat.
#inthemisosoup #ryumuraki #Japanesehorror #translated #theyearofhorrorbookclub #Japanese #murder #horrorbookclub #horror

One of my first #TBRs for 2019! #fantasy #translated #library #hoopla

Written during Soviet Russia and #translated from Russian for #NYRB, this #novella focuses on a group of writers who refuse to commit their stories to paper any longer, believing that to write ideas down kills them. Instead, they meet once a week to share their stories orally with each other. This novella, comprised of the stories of the group and heavily based in western philosophy and literature, was an intellectual and rewarding read.