Phone is on the blink but managed to capture this image of snowy Berlin

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Quite moved by the young actors and the bleak but quite plausible backdrop in Neo Sora's Happyend

Having watched and loved All Her Fault and Leonard and Hungry Paul I really enjoyed this chat with @andreamara.bsky.social and @ronanhession.bsky.social and Catherine Ryan Howard about the TV adaptations of their novels. Such an interesting discussion! Looking forward to seeing 56 Days in February.

RJL’s list of New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases for 2026 is now available!

A bit of an oldie but I think it explains my approach to literary translation quite succinctly. That team at Penguin is top notch.

Yeah, this may be my new favourite Simenon. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Daniel Libeskind's dramatic and forbidding symbolic design for the Jewish Museum in Berlin

New on the blog today, I've written about MEMORIES: FROM MOSCOW TO THE BLACK SEA by Teffi. A deeply moving account of a tumultuous journey across Russia, in which Teffi brings her trademark wit, humour & humanity to the turmoil of Civil War. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/m...

Books of the Year 2025: Part Three alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/book...

It's the first of my Review of the Year posts on a year of bookblogging highlights (and some low lights) annabookbel.net/review-of-th...

OS got his flights mixed up, so will be arriving this morning rather than tonight. On the plus side, we get an extra day together. On the minus side: haven't had a chance to shop or clean. Guess we'll have to do it together

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And so we come to the end of the Purgatorio in Dante's Divine Comedy: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/27/t...

Favourite Books in Second Half of 2025- once again, translations far outnumbered books in English findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/f...

At long last found a Christmas film that made me laugh (very Austrian humour though): Single Bells - the family Christmas from hell

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's 2026 Reading & Blogging Challenge Participation Post! I hope to read 69 books this next year, so many will be for these weekly, monthly, or yearly challenges. Here's a post about ALL of them I hope to participate in during 2026!

I was going to watch 3 Männer im Schnee as a Christmas movie today but it turns out I didn't set up my library account properly go access Filmfreund. Ah well, it will have go be the final episode of super-cheesy Dynamite Kiss! Xmas is for lighthearted entertainment

Thank you for all the support, my phone is dying and I can't respond to each one personally

My peaceful Christmas plans have been rather shaken by news of a friend's imminent death. Fourth loss this year, two of them younger than me. Life is so cruel and unfair at times.

Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, will be the thirteenth anniversary of my brother Dennis' death, one week short of his 59th birthday. Three years ago, I recorded this piece in his memory for RTE's Sunday Miscellany. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

This is a great little story. Read it. You won't be sorry. #iceland

Festive Frippery: A-carolling we will go! fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/f...

#TopTenTuesday | 23rd December 2025: Books I hope Santa Brings #Top10Tuesday #bookblogger #bookish #amreading #TTT #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles damppebbles.com/2025/12/23/t... From @damppebbles.bsky.social

Over the moon and beyond to discover that Broken features in the Top 5 books of the year for @crimefictionlover.bsky.social. Congrats to author Jon Atli Jonasson and translator @graskeggur.bsky.social crimefictionlover.com/2025/12/crim...

YES! "Translation at the literary level is CREATIVE WORK" @graskeggur.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @iangiles.bsky.social #AI #translation used for creative purposes is GARBAGE.

Book of the month: Yun Ko-eun ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/12/23/b... #booksky

Hello my friends. Here's my holiday gift for you. If you have been wanting to gift yourself a book or doing last minute shopping hunting a book for a loved one, check out my best books of 2025. Happy holidays and happy reading!! www.thebooksatchel.com/best-books-2...

From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, @saudaminideo.bsky.social explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Best Books of 2025 Top Reads in Translation clairemcalpine.com/2025/12/22/b...

Winterreisen - three new stories about winter journeys, inspired by #Schubert, by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @jolloyds.bsky.social and Mark Haddon. Read by Siân Thomas, Morfydd Clark & Lydia Wilson. Produced by Fay Lomas and me. 21.45 22-24 Dec @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ever thought 'No idea what this book is about!'? How can we explore the world (and ourselves!) and get comfortable with not having all the answers? Join @annmorgan.bsky.social in a playful and interactive FREE virtual event for curious readers everywhere us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My final review post for the year continues my Genji obsession as I take a look at the essays included in the 'Criticism' section of Dennis Washburn's translation :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...

So many glorious and varied plans for when my son comes over (plotting some of these with his girlfriend as a surprise). Can't wait!

Meine Top Ten des Kinojahres (plus eine Miniserie). Die Nummer 1 wird euch überraschen, weil der Film nicht die Aufmerksamkeit erhielt, die er verdient hätte. boxd.it/QOyhO

Favourite Books in First Half of 2025 findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/f...

Will finally watch Die My Love tonight. Was very impressed and moved by the book, so am curious how the adaptation compares.

Favorite fiction of 2025 @[email protected] #BookSky

Third Crime is the Charm #17: Spain, Italy and North Carolina. Erased by Bernard Minier (2024) Not available in English . French title Les Effacées The Black Cats Bookshop by Piergiorgio Pulixi (2023) Not available in English. French title: La librairie des chats noirs. Translated by Anatole…

My elegy for Paul Celan, in a beautiful new issue of Small Orange smallorangejournal.com/dan-alter

Countdown to 2026: Day 20 - Eggnog wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/20/c...

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My Best Reads of 2025 One Outstanding Read The Runner Up Top 9 Fiction Reads of the Year #bestreads2025 #ArundhatiRoy clairemcalpine.com/2025/12/20/b...

Merriam-Webster has surprised us all by bringing out a beautiful new print edition of the Collegiate Dictionary, the first since 2003. Which raises the question: Why? My rumination, in this weekend's WSJ (gift link). www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

You can see why it makes sense to fast for 40 days before a Romanian Christmas (we used to have even more răcituri/piftie) open.substack.com/pub/irinageo...

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Hurrah!

4 fine memoirs reviewed. annabookbel.net/non-fiction-...

We do not have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there... 👏👏👏