What To Read For Women In Translation Month? Book on my Radar 📡
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The WIT Reading Challenge was created by @charlottemolloy and you can find the announcement video with all the prompts here • Announcing the WIT Mon...
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Minor Detail is a compelling and very well written work! 👍🏾
Super titles and a couple of books you mentioned that I haven't heard of - Girls against God and Swimming Fish...
I'm also reading the Erpenbeck book. I've been having a similar block with reading Minor Detail. I need to be in a strong/resilient frame of mind to get through it.
I read Elena Knows as a buddy read for WIT when it first came out, and it was so much better reading it with someone than by myself. You can pick out a lot of things on your own, but getting someone else's perspective takes it to a whole new level. ❤
I’ve been slow to get to Minor Detail too. I feel like I need to be emotionally prepared and your comment, Katja, has reinforced that. Jess, I wholeheartedly recommend Elena knows and agree that it will be an excellent buddy read.
So many I haven’t heard of! Exciting. You found Elena Knows! Looking forward to hearing what makes the cut with the prompts.
I did, start your engines!
I’m intrigued by Marlen Haushofer’s “The Wall.” The protagonist is living with a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions. Toss in a horse and a goat and you have my idea of paradise. 😄
I am want to read The Wall so much - it's supposed to be really good. There are just so many books to choose...😱
That is a really great list, it is tricky to get a hold of some of those titles where I am but do need reminding myself to pick up a few of these.
Arg - it's so annoying when you can't get access to books or they are expensive to get. I really think digital books should be free from the library.
Thank you for the list!
I have Little Luck on my TBR (Elena Knows was 4,5 for me), want to read the first novel of Eva Baltazar (as I enjoyed Boulder), might pick up Yoko Ogawa (The housekeeper and the professor), and contemplating to pick up Tomb of Sand (but it is a bigger one). I have more on my shelves, but there are too many books and so little time.
TH-camrs definitely broadened my horizons on whom to read :D
The boarding school girl is on my wish list. I’m also interested in minor detail but am a bit apprehensive about the timing of it. Might be a sensible one to buddy read.
I just picked up Boulder at St Henri Books :)
A Little Luck absolutely broke me. It was one of my favorite books of last year. Caludia Pinero is a must read author for me. FYI she has a new book coming out in Nov or Dec of this year, I think. You put together a great list! I want to read so many of your picks. Woman Running in the Mountains, Is Mother Dead and The Boarding House Girl are the ones I'm most interested in getting to first.
I am excited to be introduced to Pinero - finally!
Read both A little Luck and Elena Knows. You can't go wrong with Claudia Pineiro, but I enjoyed A Little Luck more. I think you may connect with the main character being an educator who is going back to her home town to evaluate a school. She left abruptly many many years ago and it is a journey of healing and acceptance. The way it was done was very moving. Elena Knows was also good, but Elena is a particular character that you are slowly and painfully watching come to some realizations. She was just a harder character for me to connect with, but both these books are powerful. Don't be afraid of Minor Details! I did not find it graphic. Again, like Pineiro, we go on a journey with a woman who is going through a transformation and almost reliving a history, but it was more fascinating psychologically and not brutal emotionally to read. I did enhance my reading of Minor Detail by researching online some history of the setting and time period that is talked about in the book All these were also fast reads:) Am going to look into a few more you spoke about that I had not heard of! Thanks!
Oh thank you so much for giving more detail to these books. I didn't realize A Little Luck centred around an educator, that's interesting. I think I will read Minor Detail - my mind keeps thinking "how can I not?"
Pineiro is a fabulous writer. I could not get Elena Knows out of my mind.
Thank you for using the prompts Jess, looking forward to hearing which books you will choose for the prompts! I love that Kairos cover! The Wall by Haushofer is also on my TBR- who knows if ill get to it this August though!
Thank you for creating the readathon! I do really love WIT month. 🥰
Hurricane Season IS intense but it’s not spooky. I was surprised and pleased to see it on the NYT’s top 100 of the 21st century. I predict that you will love Woman Running in the Mountains; that one is luminous and its power over me grew even after I had finished reading it. I thought Hjorth’s Post Horn was delightful and so I am excited to add Is Mother Dead to my TBR. If I don’t get to it for WIT month, it could also be a pick for the new art-related readathon happening in September… watch for details on that event. 👀
Oh yes! Now I will have two books for that art readathon - exciting! Thanks for the push to Woman Running in the Mountains - I am having a lot of trouble choosing from a batch of very interesting options I must say!
Hei Jess - I am also excited about WIT month. Always so enjoy your recommendations and reflections. I am gong to check out The Wall. I am also going to read Is Mother Dead - you pronounce the author's name YOUR-T (YOURT) - I live in Norway :) I am not sure about Girl Against God - in Norwegian the title is To Hate God - it has some interesting reviews here - a special approach to the writing of a novel. I have made it to Chapter 2 of Minor Detail. After Chapter 1, I had to stop. I actually returned it to the library and picked it up again. Chapter 1 was so very disturbing and upsetting. Time was needed. I will return to Chapter 2 now with some time and space. I read Elena Knows last year, and enjoyed it. Will you be having another "read along" with your channel again soon? I missed out on the Invisible Man opportunity. I will also read the group WIT read Iza's Ballad. Currently reading Kala by Colin Walsh - I am reading it hybrid - book + audio which enhances the lyrical style of the prose. Hard to put down! Have a lovely weekend of reading Jess! x
I was considering another group reading for the fall...not sure which book but maybe Wilkie Collins...I have The Moonstone on my Classics TBR. I think it could be a fun one. Thanks for sharing your insights on the Norwegian books - as well as pronounciation which can be so hard for us booktubers 🤣