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Ooooo, Camilla Grudova you say! Maybe I need to get hold of this.

It’s like my brain has boxes for “English” and “not English” and so whatever it can find in “not English” will have to do!

Yep, my brain does that too. I will default to the most recent foreign language I’ve learned which has led to interesting situations like trying to speak Polish to taxi drivers in Brussels…

Learning German? My favourite language to learn, but the difficulty barrier does hit earlier than romance languages!

Great! Going to order some books tomorrow 😃

So far just This Little Art. The Long Form has been on my list for a while but I haven’t quite got to it yet.

Would this be a crazy late time to join in with #AContinuation? If I were to be so crazy, what would I most need to catch up on to understand what's going on?

So sorry to hear this, Dan. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

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Invisible String is a lovely book. My 4 year old has a bit of anxiety about being alone at night and he really likes it.

54 Books By Women From Each Of Africa's 54 Countries Here are 54 books by women from each of Africa’s 54 countries.

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A beautiful black and white tuxedo cat standing next to a framed print with the quote “I want to be here long enough to gather dust with you” by Harry Baker.

Loki the cat insists that I tell you that he is also great.

In vino veritas is definitely a thing cos whenever I’ve had a few glasses of wine I just tell everyone how great my husband and kids are

I can remember when you could fit her on your foot! Happy birthday Penny.

So excited to read this. Been trying my best to hold out for the paperback - we'll see if I manage it!

Elie’s 10 best books read in 2025 2025 was quite the year. We started it by collecting the keys to our first home (and hopefully forever home!), in May we welcomed our second child Abigail, and I closed it out by completing my read…

More bookish witterings. Sorry, I just can't help myself.

Thank you! I loved doing it and I'm sad it's over, but there's still so much to explore I'm not sure it will ever be *fully* over.

It was so full of heart, I often recommend it! I was really happy to hear she has another book out in English recently. Wishing you a great 2026, reading and otherwise!

As a translator of some 11+ years, I feel this

Happy birthday!

@mookse.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Settle in with us for a reflective conversation about the books that defined 2025 . . . and the anticipation of new reading adventures waiting in 2026!

Sending lots of love and hugs to you all, hope she recovers well

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.

Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

Excellent news!

Two Lines Press brings translated fiction list to UK and Europe Two Lines Press has announced that its books are now available in the UK and Europe, distributed by Turnaround Publishing Services.

I’ve been sitting on this news for so long I can hardly believe it’s finally ‘out the bag’…
If you’ve read the trade press you may already have spotted that @twolinespress.com will be launching in the UK next April! In case you missed it, read here: www.thebookseller.com/news/two-lin...

Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.

About reading the world A few weeks ago, on the day I turned 40 no less, I finished a project I’d been working on for some years now – reading a book from every country in the world. My motivation for doing it was t…

Some witterings about my recently completed read the world project #readingtheworld #readtheworld

I can well imagine! It was a much quicker read than I expected and so I’m already done with it, it didn’t quite work for me but I can see how it would in that situation!

That one’s new to me so looking forward to it.

Really interesting, thanks for sharing! I have read Darkness at Noon before and really liked it, but it was at least a decade ago and I’m interested to see what I make of it now.