#witmonth — Public Fediverse posts

@vicgrinberg Not criticising your list or recs for English speakers, sorry for the lack of context. #WiTMonth was a twitter campaign designed specifically to get anglos to read more ladies in translation, bit of a mission civilisatrice. Nothing wrong with it, I loved it and would love to do it again here, just meant that on the fediverse I'd love to see it expanded to translation from any language to any language. Given how popular the Vendredi Lecture tag is, I think there's an audience for it.

@vicgrinberg We can do #WiTMonth in August on the fediverse, except we wouldn't limit it to works translated into English.

#WiTMonth might be over but there is so much from the TBR pile that I couldn't get to. Plus, I found some wonderful books right towards the end, some are stuck in transit, and some that haven't been released yet. 😅 📚📚 Here's hoping I manage to get my hands on more books this month!

Women in Translation and Ten Books of Summer
#WITMonth
#20BooksofSummer
@bookstodon
#Booksky

https://enterenchanted.com/women-in-translation-and-ten-books-of-summer/

I am reading Shion Miura's The Great Passage, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, and TIL that 'remove' can also be used as a noun! Following is a sentence from her book - "From his desk, at a remove from theirs, Araki silently observed Majime's reaction." Nice! :D #WiTMonth 📚

Realised that The Great Passage by Shion Miura (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter) is on Kindle Unlimited (what luck!), typed this skeet, immediately got distracted and started reading, realised I still hadn't sent the skeet, so here I am lol! 📚📚 #WITMonth

My review of 'The Last Children of Tokyo' ('The Emissary' in North America), translated from 'Kentōshi' (2014) by Yōko Tawada. #WITMonth #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-witmonth

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚#bookstodon A TCL #ShortStorySunday post - Three Novellas. My #bookreview for #TheHebrewTeacher by Maya Arad, T-Jessica Cohen, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @NewVesselPress for the ARC via @edelweiss. #witmonth @Read_WIT #20booksofsummer2025 #BeatTheBacklist

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/08/24/a-tcl-shortstorysunday-post-three-novellas/

My review of the Irene Ash translation of #FrançoiseSagan's 1954 debut 'Bonjour Tristesse' for #WITMonth. #Bookstodon https://wp.me/pezD85-F6

📚📚 Finished Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro. It packs quite the punch in just 143 pages. After I was done I wanted to read something else by this author and I realized the English translation of her book 'Catedrales' comes out in June 2026. I can't wait to get my hands on it. #WITmonth

There's a sequel - Kamusari Tales Told at Night - and, it's available on kindle unlimited! Wheeee! 💃😁 #WITmonth 📚📚

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📘 "Repetition" by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from Norwegian into English by Charlotte Barslund

This title isn't out yet, but will be released in March 2026. I received a digital ARC for it (thanks!).

Two months ago I read 'Norwegian House' by Vigdis Hjorth and liked it so much that I've been looking around for more books by the same author. My library is purchasing some (yesss) and on Netgalley I was able to read an upcoming translation, Repetition. I read this in one long sitting, because I couldn't put it down. It was so good that it has convinced me to read every Vigdis Hjorth book I can get my hands on.

In this novel we follow a 60-something protagonist, remembering a period in her life as a 16-year-old girl, living at home. Her father is quite absent, her mother scrutinizing and overbearing. She has no privacy, no confidants, no safe place. The book is claustrophobic, filled with the dread of still having to be in your parents' home, having to return there every day, still being young and dependent and unable to act without having to justify yourself.

No other book for me has described quite as well the feeling of confusion and self-doubt that can come with being raised by people who refuse to treat you well or see you as your own, valuable person. That creeping sense of alienation when you see your peers do activities as if it's easy and self-evident, while you struggle, overanalyze and plan around abuse. That uncertainty that develops when your own parents think the worst of you. The way the paragraphs and chapters go back and forth between certain thoughts and feelings enhanced the emotions even more.

If you've read other Hjorth (autofictional) books, you probably saw the end coming. I didn't! What a shock! Yet it added another layer of understanding to the book, one that would make a reread different. On your first read you get to experience the time in her life mostly as the unknowing, overwhelmed teenager, and on a reread as the adult, with hindsight. Beautifully constructed.

I can't wait to dive into 'Will and Testament' as my next Hjorth read.

#AmReading #WomenInTranslation #WITmonth #books

📚 📢 The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter) is on kindle unlimited! 😀 Or, the kindle edition is just Rs 115/- #WITmonth

📚📚 This. Was. Amazing. The book was long, gory, scary in some places, outright disgusting in others. I'm glad it takes its time. I'm glad it's dense. Dense, rich, and outrageously, desperately dark. Everything really creeps up on you.Wow. I'm still reeling. #WITMonth #OurShareOfNight

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#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Teaching Communications - my #bookreview for "Happy New Years" by Maya Arad, Trans by Jessica Cohen, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @NewVesselPress for the ARC I found on @edelweiss. #2025NewReleaseChallenge
#histficreadingchallenge
#20booksofsummer2025
#WITMonth

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/08/10/teaching-communications/

My review of 'Moominpappa at Sea'
by #ToveJansson (Pappan och Havet: ‘The Father and the Sea’, 1965).
#WITMonth #ToveTrove #BookLoversDay #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-mumin

My review of 'Moominpappa at Sea'
by #ToveJansson (Pappan och Havet: ‘The Father and the Sea’, 1965).
#WITMonth #ToveTrove #BookLoversDay #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-mumin

My review of 'Moominpappa at Sea'
by #ToveJansson (Pappan och Havet: ‘The Father and the Sea’, 1965).
#WITMonth #ToveTrove #BookLoversDay #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-mumin

My review of 'Moominpappa at Sea'
by #ToveJansson (Pappan och Havet: ‘The Father and the Sea’, 1965).
#WITMonth #ToveTrove #BookLoversDay #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-mumin

My review of 'Moominpappa at Sea'
by #ToveJansson (Pappan och Havet: ‘The Father and the Sea’, 1965).
#WITMonth #ToveTrove #BookLoversDay #Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-mumin

📚📚 I'm reading Mariana Enriquez's Our Share of Night, and, oh boy. It's something. Every 5-10 mins I have to stop and Google something. The weight of the lore so far is staggering, and the beat hasn't even dropped yk... #WITMonth

I have been collecting #WITMonth (did I write that right?) recommendations and my book budget for this month is already in shambles, I tell ya. Need to find a decent used book store and library in #Mumbai to sustain my habit. 🤞 Know a place? Hook me up, please?

Today's #WaferThinBook for #WITMonth: Frozen Time by Anna Kim, tr. Michael Mitchell (2010, 125p.)
A Red Cross researcher in Vienna works with survivors of war in the Balkans to locate missing relatives and becomes obsessed with the case of a Kosovar man and the wife he lost.

'Tales from Moominvalley' by Tove Jansson (Det osynliga barnet ‘The Invisible Child’, 1962) reviewed for #MoominWeek and #WITMonth.
#Bookstodon
@BookJotter
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-vale

'Tales from Moominvalley' by Tove Jansson (Det osynliga barnet ‘The Invisible Child’, 1962) reviewed for #MoominWeek and #WITMonth.
#Bookstodon
@BookJotter
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-vale

'Tales from Moominvalley' by Tove Jansson (Det osynliga barnet ‘The Invisible Child’, 1962) reviewed for #MoominWeek and #WITMonth.
#Bookstodon
@BookJotter
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-vale

'Tales from Moominvalley' by Tove Jansson (Det osynliga barnet ‘The Invisible Child’, 1962) reviewed for #MoominWeek and #WITMonth.
#Bookstodon
@BookJotter
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-vale

📘 "The Lonesome Bodybuilder" by Yukiko Motoya,
translated from Japanese into English by Asa Yoneda

A very fun short story collection. They often explore where things go wrong in romantic relationships using absurd circumstances and magical realism.

I think every story is a little bit better (and more gruesome) than the one that comes before it, so it was very rewarding to keep reading.

#AmReading #WomenInTranslation #WITmonth #JapaneseLiterature

“In truth, we are always guilty…” #WITMonth @Wakefield_Press

As usual with all of my reading plans, I have gone completely off track with this month's WIT choices. I put together a lovely pile of potential reads at the start of the month, but apart from picking up one of Tove Jansson's lovely Moomin books for the Moomin Reading Week, I haven't got to any of the others. Instead, I changed lane and was inexorably drawn towards an unusual sounding title I picked up when I…

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/in-truth-we-are-always-guilty-witmonth-wakefield_press/

Today's #WaferThinBook for #WITMonth: A Family Failure by Renate Rasp, tr. Eva Figes (1970, 126p.)
Uncle wants to turn young Kuno into a tree. Literally. Amputation is just the beginning. A savage allegory for what Germans did to a generation of children.

https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=5998

Today's #WaferThinBook for #WITMonth: Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver, tr. Julia Sanches (2014/2022, 122p.)
Reflections on home and away and the transitions between them—particularly the idea that such transitions are sometimes losses, sometimes gains, sometimes simply changes.

Today's #WaferThinBook for #WITMonth: La Douleur by Marguerite Duras, tr. Barbara Bray (1987, 183p.)
Texts drawn from Duras's experiences in 1944-1945—occupation and liberation—the most powerful about the return of her first husband from Dachau.
https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=10366

#MoominWeek is 26th August to 1st September, a chance to read, watch, listen, breathe Tove Jansson's småtrollen! @BookJotter #WITMonth #ToveTrove #Bookstodon https://wp.me/p6PYz5-390

#MoominWeek is 26th August to 1st September, a chance to read, watch, listen, breathe Tove Jansson's småtrollen! @BookJotter #WITMonth #ToveTrove #Bookstodon https://wp.me/p6PYz5-390

#MoominWeek is 26th August to 1st September, a chance to read, watch, listen, breathe Tove Jansson's småtrollen! @BookJotter #WITMonth #ToveTrove #Bookstodon https://wp.me/p6PYz5-390

#MoominWeek is 26th August to 1st September, a chance to read, watch, listen, breathe Tove Jansson's småtrollen! @BookJotter #WITMonth #ToveTrove #Bookstodon https://wp.me/p6PYz5-390

#MoominWeek is 26th August to 1st September, a chance to read, watch, listen, breathe Tove Jansson's småtrollen! @BookJotter #WITMonth #ToveTrove #Bookstodon https://wp.me/p6PYz5-390

The marvelous Moomins for #Moominweek #WITMonth

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https://enterenchanted.com/the-marvelous-moomins-for-moominweek-witmonth/

The marvelous Moomins for #Moominweek #WITMonth

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https://enterenchanted.com/the-marvelous-moomins-for-moominweek-witmonth/

The marvelous Moomins for #Moominweek #WITMonth

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https://enterenchanted.com/the-marvelous-moomins-for-moominweek-witmonth/

The marvelous Moomins for #Moominweek #WITMonth

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https://enterenchanted.com/the-marvelous-moomins-for-moominweek-witmonth/

The marvelous Moomins for #Moominweek #WITMonth

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https://enterenchanted.com/the-marvelous-moomins-for-moominweek-witmonth/

Today's #WaferThinBook for #WITMonth: Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza, tr. John Cullen (2013, 148p.)
Starting with a hilarious spat in a supermarché & ending with the scattering of ashes in a river, Reza weaves through the lives, loves, and thoughts of 18 Parisians: Marvelous

Review of #ToveJansson's The True Deceiver (translated by Thomas Teal) for @BookJotter's #ToveTrove and #WITMonth.

Also, announcing #MoominWeek for 2024...

https://wp.me/s2oNj1-deceit

10 Must Read Titles by #WomenInTranslation

https://morebedsidebooks.tumblr.com/post/725274942693883904/10-must-read-titles-by-women-in-translation

#WITMonth #Bookstodon #TranslatedLiterature

🇭🇺 Another Love by Erzsébet Galgóczi tr. by Ines Rieder & Felice Newman

🎞️ Basis for a lesbian cult film in the 1980s

https://morebedsidebooks.tumblr.com/post/692569458204704768/another-love-by-erzs%C3%A9bet-galg%C3%B3czi

#QueerLiterature #Novella #BookReview #TranslatedLitChallenge #WomenInTranslation #WITMonth