Lory Widmer HessAug 31, 2025

Women in Translation and Ten Books of Summer
#WITMonth
#20BooksofSummer
@bookstodon
#Booksky

https://enterenchanted.com/women-in-translation-and-ten-books-of-summer/

Women in translation and ten books of summer

I aimed to read women in translation this summer (August is earmarked as #WITMonth), and I did read quite a few. I’m happy I got to meet so many new-to-me authors, and revisit a couple of fav…

Entering the Enchanted Castle
Christopher LovegroveAug 17, 2025
My review of #SalmanRushdie's 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories', simultaneously a children's story, comic fantasy, savage satire, literary fable, and modern fairytale. #20BooksOfSummer #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-haroun
The liberty to utter

Vintage engraving of a hoopoe. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Granta Books / Penguin Books, 1991 (1990). ‘To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonym…

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Christopher LovegroveJul 26, 2025
My review of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden' by Elizabeth von Arnim.
No 12 of my #20BooksOfSummer. #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-arnim
Growing in grace

© C A Lovegrove. Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim. Introduction by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Virago Press, 1985 (1898). May 16th.—’The garden is the place I go to for refug…

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damppebblesMay 30, 2025

20 Books of Summer Challenge #20booksofsummer2025 #amreading #amreviewing #bookblogger #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

Why oh why oh why do I do this to myself every year?! Because summer reading IS the #20BooksofSummer challenge of course! That's why 🤭 Hello and welcome to damppebbles! It's lovely to see you. Today I am launching my bid for summer reading success. And in order to achieve that success, I'm signing up for the 20 Books of Summer…

http://damppebbles.com/2025/05/30/20-books-of-summer-challenge-20booksofsummer2025/

20 Books of Summer Challenge #20booksofsummer2025 #amreading #amreviewing #bookblogger #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

Why oh why oh why do I do this to myself every year?! Because summer reading IS the #20BooksofSummer challenge of course! That’s why 🤭 Hello and welcome to damppebbles! It’s lovely to s…

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JoSep 6, 2024

My #20BooksOfSummer wrap up post

http://josbookblog.co.uk/2024/09/06/20-books-of-summer-2024-wrap-up/

20 Books of Summer 2024 – Wrap Up

Hosted by Cathy at 746books, 20 Books of Summer is an annual challenge to read and review 20 books from your TBR. This year, the challenge ran from 1 June to 1 September, and you can see my sign up…

Jo's Book Blog
Christopher LovegroveAug 13, 2024
My review of 'Flour babies' (1992) by Anne Fine. No 16 in my #20BooksOfSummer #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-flour
Valour undismayed

‘Sir Galahad’ by George Frederic Watts. Flour babies by Anne Fine. Puffin Books, 1994 (1992). “Here is the source of valour undismayed, the spring-head of endeavour; here I see th…

Calmgrove
Christopher LovegroveJul 14, 2024
My review today #BastilleDay of 'The Fly-Truffler' by Gustaf Sobin, for #ParisInJuly and #20BooksOfSummer. #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-truff
In the Underworld

Black Périgord truffle. The Fly-Truffler by Gustaf Sobin. W W Norton & Co, 2001 (2000). “Maybe it’s not a person we fall in love with so much as a distance, a depth, which this part…

Calmgrove
Christopher LovegroveJun 8, 2024
Review of 'Blackground' (1989), a thriller by #JoanAiken and one of my #20BooksOfSummer.
#bookstodon
https://wp.me/p2oNj1-8di
Picking a quarrel

Portmeirion (image: Aderixon). Blackground by Joan Aiken. Gollancz Crime, 1990 (1989). ‘Most people, I suppose, have a public persona and a private one. […] Nearly everybody must have s…

Calmgrove
Christopher LovegroveJun 6, 2024
Cigars of the Pharaoh, a #Tintin graphic novel by Hergé, read for #20BooksOfSummer. #bookstodon https://wp.me/p2oNj1-8aY
A nice quiet cruise?

Opening panel of ‘Cigars of the Pharaoh’ (1955). Cigars of the Pharaoh by Hergé. Les Cigares du Pharaon (1955) translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner. Methuen Children&…

Calmgrove
Christopher LovegroveJun 1, 2024
My choices (or at least some of them) for #20BooksOfSummer, now in its tenth year. #bookstodon https://wp.me/p2oNj1-8b6
The longest days

20 Books of Summer 746books.com We’re into June now, the threshold to summer – for those of us in the northern hemisphere at least – and thus an opportune time for bookbloggers to consider ho…

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