The Nun - Simonetta Agnello Hornby This is a weird novel to review. Simonetta Agnello Hornby's The Nun  (tr. Antony Shugaar) is an odd,...

First of all: HERE IS THE LINK TO THE WORK-IN-PROGRESS WOMEN IN TRANSLATION DATABASE. CLICK ON THIS BOLDED AREA. A few months ago, I post...

This is a difficult review to write because I feel that The Goldfinch  was so far from either the book I expected from positive reviews, and...

I'll start by saying that until page, oh, 400 (out of 477), this review was going to be overwhelmingly positive. There's a lot, a lo...

There's no doubt about it - The River Ki  (by Sawako Ariyoshi, translated by Mildred Tahara) is a book largely marred by an old-fashione...

Contains mild spoilers for Speak  which everyone probably already knows by now or doesn't care about in the first place... I read Laur...

A lot has happened this year for women in translation. If last year was the year that many readers and reviewers and translators discovered ...

If you're a reader of literature in translation (and let's be real - even if you're just a reader of good quality literature), c...

Tessa de Loo's The Twins  (tr. Ruth Levitt) was another one of those unexpected women in translation finds - I checked it out of the lib...

I am a feminist . This is not news to anyone who reads this blog. At least, it shouldn't be. I talk about feminism all the time. Femin...

Please contact me if you're interested in helping or if you have any possible resources! Your help has made the current work-in-pro...

Here's some brilliant news: Katy Derbyshire (translator and blogger of Love German Books ) is organizing a new prize for books by women ...

So you know how some books are serious, intellectually stimulating, thoughtful and important? Well, Shades of Milk and Honey  is not really ...

Before I begin this review, it's important to note that I don't feel particularly qualified in reviewing a short story collection. S...

Abandoning a book is never easy. Abandoning a book a mere fifty pages from its end? Pretty much unprecedented for me. I was looking forward ...

Ah, The Girl of Fire and Thorns . With your cliched title (a mix of Dragon Tattoo  and Hunger Games referencing), your bland fantasy cover a...

It's taken me a while to settle down in the post-WITMonth excitement. After a month of posting nearly every single day (I missed a coupl...

I'm going to put up a full post-WITMonth post sometime later this week, but for now I present my half-baked ideas for WITMonth 2015, as ...

I've been a bit sick the past couple days (hence missing two days in a row of posts...), so today's post will also be a little light...