ShwetaShe's brilliant! I read 'Our Share Of Night' during #WITmonth and I think about it almost every day.
I went in completely blind and it blew me away.
#WiTMonth might be over but there is so much from the TBR pile that I couldn't get to. Plus, I found some wonderful books right towards the end, some are stuck in transit, and some that haven't been released yet. 😅 📚📚
Here's hoping I manage to get my hands on more books this month!
Mark AlexanderI finished 12(ish) books this month, 11 by women/POC, and 10 of those for #WITMonth. 5 in German, and one in Portuguese.
Lory Widmer HessWomen in Translation and Ten Books of Summer
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https://enterenchanted.com/women-in-translation-and-ten-books-of-summer/
Sarah MatthewsJust snuck in a review for #WITMonth - The Summer Book by Tove Jansson is a wonderful read about connection between the generations and an appreciation of the unpredictability of nature #bookstodon #Braille #BookReview #reading #WomenInTranslation @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/11b1155b-20ff-42db-83cb-a0df32cc856d
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/11b1155b-20ff-42db-83cb-a0df32cc856d
Tenth and last #WITMonth book for this year: A Sunny Place for Shady People -- Mariana Enriquez, tr. Megan McDowell. Interesting contrast with the Can Xue: normally horror is some distance from my bag, but in most of these stories Enriquez limits the weirdness to one irruption, then traces the consequences for the otherwise realistic story very effectively. A great finish for the month.
I am reading Shion Miura's The Great Passage, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, and TIL that 'remove' can also be used as a noun!
Following is a sentence from her book - "From his desk, at a remove from theirs, Araki silently observed Majime's reaction."
Nice! :D
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Realised that The Great Passage by Shion Miura (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter) is on Kindle Unlimited (what luck!), typed this skeet, immediately got distracted and started reading, realised I still hadn't sent the skeet, so here I am lol! 📚📚
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#WITMonth book 9: Love in the New Millennium -- Can Xue, tr. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen. I didn't hate every moment of it -- the Nest County chapters were relatively calm -- but novel length dream sequences are not for me. I'm done with Can Xue for a while, I think.
kaggsy59“Everything is split, charred, dead.” #leningraddiary #verainber #WITMonth
I've probably mentioned before how easily distracted I am as a reader, and a perfect recent example is the Christa Wolf effect! Her book of essays, which I really enjoyed reading for #WITMonth, contained a piece on the Soviet author Vera Inber, and I felt sure I had one of her books in the stacks. A little digging revealed her…
