📫New book mail for my #ReadTheWorld TBR 🏝️Folk Tales of the Maldives by Xavier Romero-Frias 🦈Beyond the Reefs: Adventures in the Seychelles by William Travis

Guys. We're celebrating a very special birthday today. Happy 101st birthday to my beloved Olimpico featuring the history, the correct spelling, and some of my favourites 🥳 www.espn.com.au/soccer/story...

Here is an #InternationalTranslationDay #shelfie of most of the 200+ books I've translated (the top 4 shelves), plus some anthologies containing works I've translated, and then some magazines likewise containing works I've translated. 🥰🥰 #booksky #xl8

Put together a stack of nonfiction, novels, short stories, and poetry for #NationalTruthandReconciliationDay:

✍️Pluto in Translation All translated books are 40% off until MIDNIGHT! www.plutobooks.com/pluto-in-tra...

I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!

What does it mean to write or translate from an antiracist, feminist, queer, & decolonial lens? These are questions we explore in all our books at trace —where every day is #InternationalTranslationDay #riverinanocean #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar #TamilTerrains

Apparently today is #InternationalTranslationDay ! Translators - you’re amazing, talented, ridiculously-good-looking and valuable people. My #ReadTheWorld adventures would have been impossible without you. Love youse all!

🤝 The theme for #InternationalTranslationDay 2025 celebrates #translation, peace and trust: "Translation, shaping a future you can trust" #ITD2025 en.fit-ift.org/internationa...

Powerlifting diaries: Did some big dog back squats this morning. Then got HUMBLED trying to front squat. How breathe! Where arms go?

It's Monday again and today I'm about to start Revenge by Yoko Ogawa What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Spring is here!

Absolute scenes as the first Rwandan rider, Shemu Nsengiyumva, crests the Mur de Kigali during the #Kigali2025 World Championships. 📹 X/byukavuba

#Kigali2025 set a new benchmark for brutality: just 18.2% of the peloton made it to the finish, the lowest for the 🏳️‍🌈 Worlds Men's Road Race in the 21st century. 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/kiga... 📸 Cor Vos

Here's my look back on Saturday's #Kigali2025 women's road race with its surprise 🇨🇦 winner: dnlbenson.substack.com/p/magdeleine...

This year Radio National is running a poll asking people to vote for their top books of the 21st century. Let's get some Blak books on this list! Voting closes at 5pm on October 2, 2025. The countdown will be broadcast on Radio National over the weekend of October 18-19. Vote here: ab.co/3KxAXEh

Chat, Is this dill? Or have I been lovingly cultivating a pretty weed in my veggie patch? 🌱

WORLD CHAMPION CANADA Magdeleine Vallieres wins a shock World Championship in road cycling on a punishing 164.6-km circuit in Kigali, Rwanda. Steep climbs. Constant elevation changes. An unexpected world champion.

A superb silver medal for Niamh Fisher-Black after a big ride & huge effort from the New Zealander in the women’s road race at the Kigali World Championships today 🥈💪🇳🇿 #Kigali2025 📸 Getty Sport

57. Draw the Great Outdoors by Harrison How Having a grand old time picking up library books on how to draw and… trying to draw the things in the books. www.harrisonhow.com

177. GREECE #ReadTheWorld #WomenInTranslation Read for #WITmonth 2025 bsky.app/profile/geor...

Is everyone aware that it is Fat Bear Week? "For each match-up, vote for the bear you believe best exemplifies fatness and success in brown bears. The bear with the most votes advances to the next round. Only one will be crowned Fat Bear Week champion. " www.explore.org/fat-bear-week

It was reported by @battledinosaur.bsky.social back in 2023 that a Women's Australia Cup would launch in 2024, and nearly two years later we're still no closer to it launching, in part because #ALW players aren't full-time, but it's nice to hear that the FA still have it on the radar.

Ever wondered how the Booker Prizes judging process works, what the judges are looking for and how they think about the books they read? 🧵👇

The Booker Prize shortlist was announced an hour ago. And in that time, i've had my tea (meatballs), and added this wild offer onto my website, where you can get ALL SIX of the shortlisted books at a big discounted price! biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Today’s ride

175. CHAD 🇹🇩 #ReadTheWorld #LegalSky bsky.app/profile/geor...

168. TONGA (+ Australia) #ReadTheWorld bsky.app/profile/geor...

It's Monday again and today I'm about to start The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 6/20 #blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

162. SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE Native Dance: An African Story by Gervásio Kaiser A short story which opens just after Makengo has been falsely accused of attacking a woman with a knife and ends with (no spoliers) dancing. #AfricanLit #ReadTheWorld

148. BANGLADESH The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam Asha Ray quits her PHD to roll the dice and build a new social media platform with her husband and his best friend. The platform provides people with meaningful rituals and a sense of connection in a disconnected world. #ReadTheWorld

136. BURUNDI (+Rwanda + France) One of my favourite discoveries on this #ReadTheWorld adventure #AfricanLit bsky.app/profile/geor...

125. CÔTE D'IVOIRE/IVORY COAST In The Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo tr. John Cullen Fictionalised accounts of the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014-16, told from the perspective of nurses, Drs, the sick and their families, bats, trees and the virus itself. #WomenInTranslation #AfricanLit

100. GUATEMALA bsky.app/profile/geor...

95. HUNGARY One of my faves from this #ReadTheWorld adventure. bsky.app/profile/geor...

76. LESOTHO Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho ’M’atsepo Nthunya (with support from K. Limakatso Kendall) The story of the extraordinary life of a Basatho woman. Full of love, loss, strength, happiness and hardship. Another great book I would never have come across, without trying to #ReadTheWorld

Today’s sketchbook game: catching shadows in the garden

66. MEXICO Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, tr. Sophie Hughes A bleak & unrelenting novella. Teen boys get drunk together by the river in a luxury housing complex called "Paradais". One lives there, the other works a shitty gardening job. They hatch a mad, desperate plan… #WomenInTranslation

55. NIUE bsky.app/profile/geor...

44. MOLDOVA The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov, tr. Ross Ufberg Folks in the impoverished town of Larga hatch increasingly crazy plans to escape to the promised land of Italy, by planes, submarines and elaborate schemes involving international curling competitions. #ReadTheWorld

22. TANZANIA Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah Another epic novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ilyas was stolen. Hamza was sold. Both were forced to fight for the German colonial army as it lost control of Deutsch-Ostafrika. Oh, there’s a love story too. #ReadTheWorld

11. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan A collection of short stories, set in UAE, full of magical realism, immigration troubles, family dramas and in-between-ish-ness. #ReadTheWorld #ArabLit uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/tem...

01. ZIMBABWE Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo Tholokuthi, this was a wild ride! Hilarious, haunting, satirical and surreal. The country of Jidada is being run into the ground by The Old Horse and his army of canine Defenders The Children of the Nation dream of liberation, again.

Today’s scribbling

Round 8 of recreating paintings with my Kmart markers. This one comes from Katie Scott’s gorgeous illustrations in her book “Arboretum” katie-scott.com/shop/

A specific moment on the internet that makes me smile.

Give me your favorite Treachery of Images derivative meme. I’ll start.

August is Women in Translation Month! Reading translated literature is a fantastic way to broaden your reading horizons, and there are so many women writing amazing books in languages other than English. See our WIT Month reading list here: parnassusbooks.net/wit

Another #TranslatorInterview, this time from @racheltranslates.bsky.social I'm loving the thought and effort that is going into these answers and I'm finding out so much about the world of translation I just didn't realise #BookSky #TranslatorsOnTheCover #Translator 💙📚