Irish short story collections and nonfiction to look out for in 2026. 746books.com/2026/01/09/i...

Irish Fiction to look out for in 2026! #IrishLiterature 746books.com/2026/01/08/i...

It's quite surprising to know that Jin Yong's novels were banned in Vietnam in the 1970s. #wuxia #chineseliterature #booksky wp.me/p4L61Y-2dY

Orhan Pamuk's 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence, is having a Netflix adaptation. Coming out on February 13th. youtube.com/watch?v=uIBy...

A reflection on my last year's reading and reviewing... booklypurple.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/2...

Conclusion of my reading in 2025. I actually have six favorite books this year but myyearinbooks website could only generate five so let's just act as if the one left is the honorable mention 😌. #booksky

My December reading wrap-up 📚✌🏻. #booksky

Girls gotta have a room of their own for everything and anything.

Bold ideas, progressive narrative, but, unfortunately, with a writing style I wouldn't deem good or mature. 3.75/5

Jane Austen's 250th anniversary seems to be the right moment to reread #PrideAndPrejudice. #booksky #classics

Colm Toibin's muse on what is plot and what had driven him to finally write Brooklyn's sequel. www.waterstones.com/blog/colm-to...

The Empire Marches On www.thedriftmag.com/the-empire-m...

I know my review cannot do the book justice, but here's my thoughts on Intan Paramaditha's second novel, Malam Seribu Jahanam. #booksky #bookreview #IndonesianLiterature booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/m...

A review of "Jasmine Tea" by Eileen Chang. #translatedfiction #ChineseLiterature kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/s...

An interesting take by Intan Paramaditha on the books that (should) influence us. Although, I have to say that making choices is, most of time, a matter of privilege. lithub.com/summoning-li...

New blog post today 📄🖊️. My unbelievably long review of #HomeRemedies by Xuan Juliana Wang. A collection of enigmatic short stories about being uprooted, young and fool, failed romance, and broken families in early 2000s China. #bookreview #booksky booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/h...

My November reading wrap-up 📚✌🏻.

I usually don't like crime fiction whose writing is too flowery to the point that it seems only for effect but damn Tana French is so good.

If a book is a hell, this is it. 4.75/5 ⭐

The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction is ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)’ by Rabih Alameddine. #NBAwards

The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards

The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature is ‘We Are Green and Trembling’ by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from the Spanish Robin Myers. #NBAwards

Malam Seribu Jahanam by Intan Paramaditha is, just like its English title will be, one hell of a book. Social/class issue, gender issue, religious issue all in one, fragmented story that will blow you up. Coming soon in English translation from Europa Edition. #booksky #litfic #IndonesianLiterature

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

‘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