Emma
@bookaround.bsky.social
🇪🇺 🇨🇵 French Book lover and Romain Gary fan. I blog in English at www.bookaroundthecorner.com I read a lot of American Lit and Nature Writing.
Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell - an important book and a translation tragedy. #20BOS26 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/08/03/d...
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell – an important book and a translation tragedy. #20BOS26
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell (2012-2013) French title: N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants. Translated by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud et Lena Grumbach. I’m supposed to write a …
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Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell - an important book and a translation tragedy. #20BOS26 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/08/03/d...
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell – an important book and a translation tragedy. #20BOS26
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell (2012-2013) French title: N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants. Translated by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud et Lena Grumbach. I’m supposed to write a …
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wp.me/pQVen-3YP A Literary Escapade from two years ago.
Literary escapade : a hike and a book in the Vosges mountains
Imagine you’re in the Vosges mountains and you’re starting the hike of the day and…stumble upon a bookstore. That’s what happened to me. A flight of stairs in a green tunnel and a sign for La Forêt…
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20 Books Of Summer 2026: July Progress Report from @yvoaboutbooks.bsky.social #booksky #20BOS26
20 Books Of Summer 2026: July Progress Report #20BOS26
Wait, what? It’s All About Books is joining in on the 20 Books Of Summer fun again even though in Argentina it’s far into autumn right now?! Well yes, I just couldn’t resist joini…
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I've finished reading Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell. Just wow. It's an important book and I hope I'll be able to write a good blog entry about it. Has anyone read it?
Throughout Women in Translation Month, we'll be celebrating the brilliant translators behind Charco Press books, sharing their thoughts on translation, the books they love and why bringing stories across languages matters. Our series begins with Alison, co-translator of I'm Still Here.
150 into Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell. I love it so far. 812 pages in small print but it's going to be so worth it.
I've started to read Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell. Excellent so far but so sad.
@terribleman.com @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social @louiserl.bsky.social @villa-albertine.bsky.social I don't know how the translation / publishing world works but someone has to translate On était des loups by Sandrine Collette. It's such a brilliant novella.
Literary escapade : Frédéric Dard & the village of Saint-Chef, France. #ParisInJuly2026 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/07/26/l...
Literary escapade : Frédéric Dard & the village of Saint-Chef, France. #ParisInJuly2026
I thought I’d take you to another literary escapade in France, in the village of Saint-Chef in the Isère department. This is where Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) , aka San Antonio spent part of his chil…
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Literary escapade : Frédéric Dard & the village of Saint-Chef, France. #ParisInJuly2026 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/07/26/l...
Literary escapade : Frédéric Dard & the village of Saint-Chef, France. #ParisInJuly2026
I thought I’d take you to another literary escapade in France, in the village of Saint-Chef in the Isère department. This is where Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) , aka San Antonio spent part of his chil…
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Amazon financially supports ICE. Do you financially support Amazon? The Amazon umbrella covers Kindle, Audible, ABE Books, and Goodreads.
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w agoI took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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La candidature de François-Noël Buffet pour être Défenseur des droits approuvée par les parlementaires
La candidature du sénateur LR, proposée par Emmanuel Macron, était fortement contestée par le monde associatif et syndical, qui a dénoncé des prises de position « contraires aux droits fondamentaux ».
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Got my copies of the French edition of SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET (aka UNE AFFAIRE DE FAMILLE), available now from Éditions Gallmeister. Translated by Simon Baril and Juliane Nivelt. Beautiful cover art by Aurélie Bert.
Twenty Books of Summer - midway check in #20BOS26 annabookbel.net/twenty-books...
Twenty Books of Summer – midway check in #20BOS26
Well, I promised you a midway check in. How are you getting on with your Books of Summer, however many you aim to read? I’ve read 9 and with several of them to review. Now school has broken u…
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On croit que c'est une publication du Gorafi et non, c'est Radio Canada, donc c'est sérieux 😪 ce monde est fou.
Radio-Canada Info@info.radio-canada.ca · 3w ago#20BooksofSummer: China, Old and New, and Japan findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/2...
#20BooksofSummer: China, Old and New, and Japan
I’ve nearly completed a ten books of summer challenge and it’s not even the end of July yet, so I’m quite chuffed. Might be a bit challenging to stretch to 20 before the end of Au…
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The Guillotine River by Antoine de Meaux - A DNF for Bastille Day and #ParisinJuly2026. #20BOS26 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/07/14/t...
The Guillotine River by Antoine de Meaux – A DNF for Bastille Day and #ParisinJuly2026. #20BOS26
The plan was simple and good, I think: read Le Fleuve guillotine by Antoine de Meaux (2015) for Paris in July and Bastille Day. The plan was derailed when I wasn’t able to finish the book because I…
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Island of Point Némo by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès -- a crazy adventure à la Jules Verne #20BOS26 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/07/15/i...
Island of Point Némo by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès — a crazy adventure à la Jules Verne #20BOS26
Island of Point Nemo by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès. (2014) French title : L’Ile du Point Némo. I received Island of Point Nemo by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès last year in one of my Kube packages. It&#…
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The Guillotine River by Antoine de Meaux - A DNF for Bastille Day and #ParisinJuly2026. #20BOS26 bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/07/14/t...
The Guillotine River by Antoine de Meaux – A DNF for Bastille Day and #ParisinJuly2026. #20BOS26
The plan was simple and good, I think: read Le Fleuve guillotine by Antoine de Meaux (2015) for Paris in July and Bastille Day. The plan was derailed when I wasn’t able to finish the book because I…
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Yay! Now you can see what I've been working on behind the scenes these past few months
Corylus Books@corylusbooks.bsky.social · 3w agoThe economic crisis has hit Barcelona hard – and a personal crisis is about to hit Deputy Inspector Norma Forrester’s family. Thrilled to announce that the much anticipated second novel in Teresa Solana's Barcelona series is available now for pre-order! amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H7YS9464/
