Sharing literary gems from around the world
April was a strange old month. We were locked down for the entire month and I didn’t have much work coming in. As a result, my April wrap up is MAMMOTH. I read 30 books in total, 29 physical and one on audio. I gravitated towards quite slim books this month. With the whole global…
March Wrap Up Overview Welcome to my March wrap up! I read a lot in March (I say that every month), and I was pleased with the quality overall. I was kindly gifted the entire Booker International longlist to read and review. This is without a doubt one of the coolest bookstagram perks I’ve ever…
February Wrap Up Overview My February wrap up was another good one, featuring some very dark translated fiction and illuminating historical fiction. I took part in Seji’s @theartisangeek #BlackLitChallenge on Instagram, which pushed me out of my comfort zone by making me read a PLAY for the first time since secondary school! In case you…
I’ve always had a passion for translation, but my translated fiction stats haven’t always reflected that. Translation was my favourite activity during language lessons at school, all the way through to university where I studied French and Italian. Forget oral classes, give me a dictionary and let me transform a text from one language into…
Thank you to the publisher for gifting me a copy of The Eighth Life (for Brilka) in exchange for an honest review. Overview Okay so. OKAY SO. This book. I’m going to need you all to put aside any qualms you might have about its 930 pages and just DIVE RIGHT IN to this beautiful,…
For the last three years, January has been an exceptionally good month for me reading-wise. This is always welcome, as I admit the January Blues usually do get me down, so it’s nice to have a fistful of five-star reads in my January wrap up to cheer me up. January 2020 was no different! I…
