‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’ We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.

Plot twist: I decided to resume reading Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind that I started (and DNF-ed) six years ago. Inspired by my retrying Home Remedies after failing in finishing (and loving) it months before.

Now thinking about: 1. Rereading Pride and Prejudice 2. Restarting The Burgess Boys Or... 3. Starting Your Utopia 🤔

Though it took me almost two months to finish it, I don't regret starting it again for the second time. It's truly fantastic. 4.5/5 ⭐. #HomeRemedies #XuanJulianaWang

I just love the story "Fuerdai to the Max" so much I cannot NOT review it. So on this very last day of #ShortStorySeptember I posted a review of my most favorite from the collection Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang. booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/f...

Halfway through this book and am loving it so far I just don't know if I have the energy to write a 800-words review of my most favorite one. The deadline is tomorrow 😞.

My current escapism is reading essays by women writers ✊🏻.

#currentread #HomeRemedies #XuanJulianaWang

Three short reviews of my recent reads are up on the blog now ✌🏻😉. #books #bookreviews #booksky booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/s...

Dropped Xuan Juliana Wang's Home Remedies several months ago. Now wanna try and read it again for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social . Wish me luck I won't drop it again this time 🤞🏻.

Done Sawerigading Datang dari Laut and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, what fantastic reads. My short reviews will be up on the blog soon.

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social #IrishLiterature wp.me/p1nUrn-4k3

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social #SriLankanLiterature wp.me/p1nUrn-4jJ

We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth

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Just posted a new review on my blog. A brief (and hopefully compact) thought on Mochtar Lubis' Jalan Tak Ada Ujung (A Road with No End). #IndonesianLiterature #bookreview #classics #books #booksky booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/j...

Some #currentreads: - Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, I always liked Faisal Oddang's writing but maybe not this time 🤷🏻‍♀️. - Kairos, finally back to this book after abandoning it for months! - Let Me Tell You What I Mean, my very first time reading Didion. #booksky

Today on my blog! A review of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, two years after reading it. All of my thoughts on the classic 👇🏻 wp.me/p43g9p-yD #AmericanLiterature #classics #booksky #bookreview

NEW ON MY BLOG TODAY 📢📢📢 Finally got around to writing a (brief) review of Cinco Esquinas by Mario Vargas Llosa. I have some words 👇🏻. booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/c...

House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social #IrishLiterature wp.me/p1nUrn-4if

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist. Have you read any of the shortlisted books?

The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri, reviewed by @roughghosts.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/01/07/m...

Not expecting this but here's LRB giving a pretty much comprehensive explanation on danmei and Chinese fanfiction. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Just listened to the audiobook of Kate Chopin's The Story of An Hour. Goddamn what an exciting, 8-minute "read". #booksky #classics

Though The Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan, reviewed by @cathybrown746.bsky.social #IrishLiterature #ReadingIrelandMonth25 wp.me/p49UqI-4E9

The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride, reviewed by @cathybrown746.bsky.social #IrishLiterature #ReadingIrelandMonth25 wp.me/p49UqI-4D3

Baumgartner by Paul Auster, reviewed by @cathybrown746.bsky.social wp.me/p49UqI-4Cs

Been on my shelf for ages and am currently reading it. Quite fascinating so far, except for its sexist voice. #RumahKopiSingaTertawa #YusiAviantoPareanom #IndonesianLiterature #booksky

NEW ON MY BLOG TODAY 📢📢📢 A year after reading it, I finally got around to writing a review of Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung. Twisted and enigmatic, but doesn't mean you cannot enjoy it 😉. #KoreanLiterature #translatedfiction #booksky booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/c...

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. Which ones are you excited to read first?

Since I already put Nora by Nuala O'Connor on my 25 for 2025 book selection list, might as well read it for this March's Reading Ireland. I'll try my best to finish it in the middle of my other current reads 🤞🏻. #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #booksky

Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons, reviewed by @tonysreadinglist.bsky.social #ChineseLiterature #translatedfiction wp.me/pCSQS-6EM

Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers, reviewed by @jacquiwine.bsky.social #AmericanLiterature #contemporaryfiction wp.me/p4zVo7-aK

To me, Milkman by Anna Burns is definitely one of the most unforgettable books. #IrishLiterature wp.me/p5GOiH-2li

The Book of Tokyo #JapaneseLiterature #translatedfiction wp.me/pab66-1nO

Happy birthday, Carson McCullers. Eleven years ago, I wrote a review of one of the most thought-provoking books I ever read. #TheHeartIsALonelyHunter #CarsonMcCullers booklypurple.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/t...

Years after The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, finally picking up McCullers again. This time The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories. Only a few pages in and already sure I'm gonna like it.

We are thrilled to announce the 16 books that have made the 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist! With authors drawn from a wide range of professional spheres and expertise, discover some brilliant books that will inform, educate and inspire you for years to come: https://youtu.be/98OuOZs26dc

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The third book (excluding manhua) I read this year. Paling suka Obat Mujarab karya Mo Yan. Di tengah revolusi, semua orang memikirkan diri sendiri.

Reading Ireland Month 2025!!! wp.me/p49UqI-4Cj

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social #BritishLiterature wp.me/p1nUrn-4az

Openings by Lucy Caldwell, reviewed by @jacquiwine.bsky.social #IrishLiterature wp.me/p4zVo7-2Kb

A Spring of Love by Celia Dale, reviewed by @radzpandit.bsky.social wp.me/p8vN6Q-10t

Girl by Edna O'Brien, reviewed by @cathybrown746.bsky.social #IrishLiterature wp.me/p49UqI-4Cc

The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto #JapaneseLiterature #translatedfiction wp.me/pab66-1nt

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, reviewed by @stujallen.bsky.social #RussianLiterature #classics #translatedfiction winstonsdad.blog/2025/01/22/l...

Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich, reviewed by @alifeinbooks.bsky.social alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/01/ask-...

One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden #IrishLiterature #contemporaryfiction wp.me/p4zVo7-2IZ