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The Oleander Sword was absolutely incredible. It's such an ambitious novel; it takes big leaps--with its characters, its plot, its worldbuilding--and it sticks the landing with every single one of them. What's more, The Oleander Sword takes seriously the ramifications of the events of its predecessor; where The Jasmine Throne planted some important seeds for us, The Oleander Sword allows us to see them grow.

I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to read this!!! I haven't been able to shut up about multigenerational family sagas this year, so when this book popped up on my radar it felt like it was Meant To Be.

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? is--maybe surprisingly, given its title--a lovely book, funny and poignant in equal measure. And it's exactly that combination of the two, the balancing act between gravity and levity, that makes it work so well as a memoir. To be sure, it's not an easy tone to strike. This is, in many ways, a sad book: O'Reilly confronts the loss of his mother head on, a loss that is made all the more tragic because he was so young when it happened.

it's almost #womenintranslation month yall!! i'm so excited to see what everyone will be reading, and wanted to share some of my all time translated favs (Abigail! One Hundred Shadows! The Art of Losing!) and some ones that i'm hoping to get to soon. 👀 in this post you'll find books translated from the French, Hungarian, German, Japanese, Korean, and Swedish. let me know if youve read any of these books, and what youre planning/hoping to read for WIT month!! ☺️

Elif Batuman is one of my favourite authors, and The Idiot is exactly the kind of novel I love to read: sharp and insightful, with an introspective and thoughtful narrator--whose deadpan sense of humour definitely doesn't hurt. It's one of the best character portraits I've ever read, and it's a novel that sustains itself on the strength of that character and her ideas alone. That is to say, it's a novel more about the ideas and the character development than it is about the plot--which is, of course, exactly why I loved it. Also, the writing is just perfect. Batuman has such a distinctive, wry style that always comes through so strongly in Selin's narration, and which ultimately lends the novel a real sense of personality and verve. Anyway, I love The Idiot. (The sequel, Either/Or, is even better!!!) I will read anything and everything that Elif Batuman releases.

i'm such a sucker for any new short story collection, and i've been interested in this one ever since i heard about it in the beginning of the year. im also a big fan of a lot of the titles that Catapult/Counterpoint Press/Soft Skull release, so i'm feeling good about this one. needless to say, this collection is right up my alley, and i absolutely can't wait to get to it soon!!

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