Elie
@eliedgo.bsky.social
Wife. Mum. Worker bee. Writer. Linguist. Reads a lot. Cats. Tea. Music. Owner of a frankly unnecessary amount of hair. She/her.
#WITmonth 2026 book 6: Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, translated by Madeleine Arenivar. I found this a little uneven and sometimes confusing but it was a fascinating portrait of a girl’s life in the Afro-Ecuadorian community surrounded by music and family. TW for sexual violence and…
30 years ago, teenage Ana’s body was found in a Buenos Aires suburb. This brilliant novel considers the repercussions for her family, with sections from the perspectives of different characters. My new favourite! I hope lots of people read this. Insightful, moving, and a great read #WITMonth 💙📚🖋️
It is a collection of short stories CHOCK FULL of women & mothers who are scientists and astronauts, destroyers & saviors of worlds, cyborgs & uploaded pseudo-consciousnesses. And every once in a while a man is also there.
Our September book will be Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, translated by Madeleine Arenivar and published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on Monday 7th September at 7pm UK time. All welcome - PM for the Zoom link!
#WITmonth 2026 book 5: Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle and published by @charcopress.com. Oh my goodness. What a ride. Crime, religion, family drama, this book has it all, and we’re masterfully led through it by this incredible writer/translator duo.
Already cried on p. 81 of a 290 page book - this doesn’t bode well for my poor little heart!
#WITmonth 2026 book 4: Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle. A re-read of one of my favourite contemporary novels by one of my favourite contemporary writers for a book club. Just as astounding as the first read and now incredibly hyped for Cathedrals, which is up next!
The Core of the Sun, Johanna Sinisalo, tr. Lola Rogers. In 🇫🇮, only pretty, submissive women can reproduce; the intelligent are sterilised. Vanna, secretly intelligent, needs money to help her sister, so gets involved in trafficking a stimulant: chillis. Scary. #WomenInTranslationMonth 💙📚 #xl8 🌐
August is #WomenInTranslation month, #WITMonth, and I love a book stack. Here are the books I read by women writers translated into English between last August and this one. Titles, authors and translators follow in comments.
#WITmonth 2026 book 3: The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson. Fragments of a life told through four of its important people fuse together to form a whole. Not gonna lie I was a little bit disappointed with this...
Related: Love it when you read a great book and then you do a bit of digging and discover there's another by the same author and translator pair coming next year 🥳
#WITmonth 2026 book 2: All Flesh by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. A deeply uncomfortable read that probably needs a few trigger warnings (food, obesity, some body horror at the end) but which somehow I just couldn’t stop reading. It asks a lot of questions about how we...
#WITmonth 2026 book 1: Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Padma Viswanathan. Short but definitely not sweet. Beautiful prose juxtaposed with roadkill, shouldn’t work but really does. Packs more into 115 pages than novels three times its size. Recommended!
yes same. and this is also true for the many people I love and respect and learn so much from who have substacks :(
Tonight!
London Reads the World book club@ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · last mo.Our August book will be A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by László Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on the 3rd August at 7pm UK time. PM for the Zoom link!
Pulled some great options from the bookshelves for #witmonth #witmonth2026 Will likely start with Taiwan Travelogue but open to suggestions for must reads during the month. I am hoping to get through at least ten.
A world of possibilities for #WITmonth 2026. I know I'll never read all of these in a month, but it's fun to dream!
I've done a #WITmonth Starter Pack. I do not claim it to be remotely all-encompassing but if you've used the hashtag (as per the criteria⤴️), hopefully I've found and added you. If I haven't, please let me know. go.bsky.app/KEkwYR6
Spotted this over on Instagram and I'm thinking of giving it a go, will definitely be looking for recommendations that cover more than one prompt though 😅 #WITmonth #WomenInTranslationMonth #WITpassport
I enjoy the juxtaposition of reading Zadie Smith essays in the queue to watch Gladiators being filmed. Multiple levels of culture!
Have you skipped Mali? I can recommend this, coming out soon: www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/bo...
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What are the books you yammer on about? DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro (trans. Frances Riddle) THE DEVIL'S DANCE by Hamid Ismailov (trans. Donald Rayfield) MEMENTO MORI by Muriel Spark
JacquiWine@jacquiwine.bsky.social · last mo.What are the books you yammer on about to anyone who'll listen? CASSANDRA AT THE WEDDING, Dorothy Baker MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT, Elizabeth Taylor THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, Edith Wharton THE BEGINNING OF SPRING, Penelope Fitzgerald IN A LONELY PLACE, Dorothy B. Hughes BALKAN TRILOGY, Manning 💙📚
Our August book will be A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by László Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on the 3rd August at 7pm UK time. PM for the Zoom link!
Showers are for cleaning, baths are for lying down and thinking
Finally finished Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose in a leisurely bath this evening. Loved all the quotes and the anecdotes - my TBR has gone up by about a hundred now! But also full of ideas on how to put it into practice in the new novel I've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks.
