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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

books read in September, The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky is extraordinary and I continue to be in awe of Joy Williams. Holy the Firm 🙌 Also the ones in the second slide are all 🔥 as well, a fantastic month of reading.

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

new book mail from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social, a writer I have yet to read 📚

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

from On Wooden Tablets Apronenia Avitia by Pascal Quignard, tr. by Bruce X.

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

new books from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and @twolinespress.com, a reprint of a book on my tbr for ages and translated stories from Elvira Navarro, loved her book A Working Woman. 📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Revolving Books online always has books/writers I did not know about in the first photo. I also found a copy of The Colorist by Susan Daitch and other used books I recently bought. 📚✨

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Manga Mavericks @mangamavericks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Before an artist becomes a legend, there are the works that helped shape their voice. Brothers of Japan collects 11 early stories from Taiyo Matsumoto, offering a look at the foundations of his artistic world. Pre-order now: buff.ly/ET4EJKf

"Brothers of Japan" by Taiyo Matsumoto. The central focus is the cover design of the manga, which depicts two children wearing blue outfits and holding red umbrellas. They stand on a brown, flat landscape with a stark white tree in the background and a large whale above them. A small white dog is shown running to the left. The overall color palette combines muted earth tones with striking reds and blues.

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

book mail from @openletterbooks.bsky.social, the new Translator Triptych featuring three books from Iceland. I highly recommend checking out Open Letter Books catalog 📚✨

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New on my blog, I've written about Urszula Honek's bleak but beautiful collection of interlinked stories, WHITE NIGHTS. Translated by Kate Webster, I read this for #WITMonth. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/w...

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White Nights – Urszula Honek (tr. Kate Webster)

Urszula Honek’s White Nights is a haunting, beautifully written collection of thirteen interlinked stories about death, isolation, poverty and despair.

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

books read in August for Women in Translation month, my two favorite are La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc and The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers, brilliant. The others are gems too, would recommend. I read all of Vagabond, unfortunately the series is unfinished. 📚

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

latest book purchases 📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

recent book purchases 📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

some books have found their way here 📚

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

some vintage New Directions from Revolving Books online. I had not seen these before and the Stendhal are from 1961 📚✨

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Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 13/08/2026

My favorite photo from today's eclipse. 📷 Andrew McCarthy cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea-sha...

From the photographer: "My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea"."

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

books I recently bought, perfect for women in translation month 📚

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Got a bunch of Indian modern classics, translated variously from Kannada, Urdu, Tamil and Bengali, with the last originally in English. These are stupidly hard to get hold of in Australia--had to order them from Germany, of all places. (includes the excellent @shreedaisy.bsky.social)

8 books:
Kuvempu: Bride in the Hills (trans. Vanamala Viswanatha)
Joginder Paul: Birds in Flight (trans. Rashmi Govind)
Azra Abbas: Sleep Journeys (trans. Daisy Rockwell)
Ki Rajanarayanan: People of Gopallapuram (trans. Shubashree Desikan)
Buddhadeva Bose: Restless Was the Night and Other Stories (trans. Arunava Sinha); Black Rose (trans. Arunava Sinha); It Rained All Night (trans. Clinton B. Seely)
Agha Shahid Ali: The Last Speaker - Selected Poetry

apologies for any typos

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I could not pass up this lot of books by Maurice Blanchot and this rad edition of The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard 📚

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another #witmonth -appropriate old podcast episode finally has a transcript! Post-bubble Japan. The history of socially-conscious Japanese literature. Yu Miri and her novel Tokyo Ueno Station (trans Morgan Giles). readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Epis...

A cover image for RJL Episode 16—Writing about Japan's "Have-Nots". It comes from the cover Lauren Peters-Collaer designed for the English-language translation of Tokyo Ueno Station. The clipped portion shows simplified, abstract elements evoking Tokyo's Ueno Park on a purple background—a blue brick wall, two layers high; a red bench; and a yellow, Japanese-stylized chrysanthemum. The words "Ueno Station" from the title appear along the right side.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Sweet Dove Died has turned out to be one of my favorite reads of this year. This was unexpected as I haven’t enjoyed Pym’s other work. I loved the caustic writing, the icy heart at the center, the moments of ‘longing and loathing’ being so intertwined. Both brutal and human. #NYRBWomen25

cover of The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym

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Magda Birkmann @magdarine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Now that we've all seen the WICKER trailer, may I also interest you in a brilliant little novella about a bored wife having an affair with a fish/frog monster called Larry who loves avocados?

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

books read in July, all were terrific and would highly recommend. The first time reading Pym and Quignard and I will definitely read more. Wise Blood and Barthes! 📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

used books I found on the Etsy store OldBookSource and Revolving Books online 📚✨

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reread (first read maybe 10 years ago) this Hungarian masterpiece. No little review because I'm saving my words for the translated fiction book group I'm in. But it's fucking great.

'The Door' by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix)

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

from Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (1952)

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

last four books I read, all bangers 📚

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I picked up books from @dorothyproject.bsky.social backlist during their recent sale 📚✨

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just here to remind you about this amazing title! Makeshift by Sarah Campion asks what it means to find a home in an intolerant world. A fascinating and long-neglected novel, Makeshift is a story of identity, exile, and the search for belonging.

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

cool used books I recently picked up📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

awesome used books I recently bought📚

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We're having a TWO-DAY SUMMER SALE on all our books! 🎉 You know what to do. Go do it here: www.nyrb.com/collections/...

Screenshot of the page at NYRB.com that explains the details of the sale: Save up to 40% on books from Dorothy, a publishing project, now until midnight EDT on Thursday, July 16. All Dorothy books are available at up to 40% off. Buy 2 books to save 20%, 3 to save 30%, or 4+ to save 40%. Spend $75 or more for free US shipping. Sale ends Thursday, July 16 at midnight EDT.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New on the blog today, I've written about THE PUMPKIN EATER by Penelope Mortimer. A superb novel about a married woman's descent into an inescapable abyss. Raw, unflinching and razor-sharp, it's the best book I've read so far this year. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/t...

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The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer

Raw, unflinching and razor-sharp are just some of the descriptions that come to mind when I think of Penelope Mortimer’s fiction. Mortimer has an innate ability to portray how easy it is for an int…

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Haven’t yet decided on what I’ll read for women in translation month in August, but here are some recommendations Fleur Jaggy, Anna Seghers, Tove Ditlevsen, Colette, Shahrnush Parsipur, OlgaTokarczuk, Lalla Romano Titles, translators and original languages in alt text. #WITMonth

Photo of the covers of seven books on a rug. They are: Fleur Jaggy, I am the Brother of XX, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff, Anna Seghers, The Dead Girls’ School Trip: Selected Stories, translated from the German by Margot Bettauer, Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood, translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally, Colette, Break Of Day, translated from the French by Enid McCleod, Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men, translated from the Persian by Faridoun Farrokh, Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones, Lalla Romano, A Silence Shared, translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore.

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

shout out to Revolving Books online for these used books and a cool 1993 magazine called Doppelganger 📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

vintage books haul, some awesome ones!

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"It is an American story of those who, in some fashion, failed, but that is very much part of the underbelly of American experience" Tosh Berman on Keith Waldrop's "quiet masterpiece" Light While There is Light."

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"Light While There Is Light" by Keith Waldrop

Published by NYRB (ISBN: 979-8-89623-036-6)

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

summer book mail from Womb House Books online, happy to find Colette in this edition📚😎

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

books read in June, the highlights are Cassandra at the Wedding and The Orange Eats Creeps. It seems like this month was also very horror themed. 📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

book mail from two favorites, Revolving Books online and three new releases from @glacierbaybooks.com. GBB is killing it with their books this year, each has not only interesting story/art but a unique design for each book. Highly recommend both websites! 📚✨

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

new books I bought during @sevenstories.bsky.social recent sale! The other two are new release from the UK small press isolarii and a new translation from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. 📚✨

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just sent all the files for our two Fall titles--both beautiful, slender, debut novels--to the printer. Cannot wait to share them with you all in October!

front cover of Denise Rose Hansen's debut novel BLUE SUNSET, out on October 6, 2026

front cover of Brais Lamela's WHAT REMAINS (translated by Jacob Rogers), out on October 6, 2026

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

really cool recent book mail! 📚😎

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Don’t miss the first English translation of celebrated Togolese novelist Sami Tchak, by @jmz.bsky.social! Such wonderful work. My thoughts in Asymptote Journal: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

shout out to @glacierbaybooks.com and @starfruitbooks.bsky.social for these recent gems I read, they will be top books read this year. I am also looking forward to upcoming releases, the untimely passing of Star Fruit Books founder Matt Haash last year was such a loss. 📚

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have recently found some great used books at Revolving Books and the Etsy shop Madison Paperbacks. 📚✨

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