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Here are the July #NYRB options. Hopefully it's not cheating to use two that were unchosen from the last time I facilitated, but I still really want to read them🙂

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My apologies for the delay, and thank you for your patience. You can now read my full #LiteReads review for The House Made of Sugar by Silvina Ocampo! I personally wasn't a fan of the inclusion of a transphobic trope, and that definitely dampened my enjoyment of it. It was otherwise an interesting tale with themes I enjoyed exploring. Let me know in the comments what you thought!

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Our new #LiteReads selection is The House Made of Sugar by Silvina Ocampo! Translated by Daniel Balderston. This dark Argentine classic is about a woman who refuses to live in houses that have been lived in before and what happens when her husband deceives her and they move into a house that had already been lived in. You can find links to read it in the full intro post (link below). Be sure to let me know your thoughts!

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#NYRBBookClub Saw this on the web, you New Yorkers & adjacent can go in or do pickup.I used to visit the store when I went to New York on a more regular basis.I know they ship , but I would check what the turn around time is if you have book club deadlines.

Reading corner today is exquisite.
Coloma Resorts in California. 3-day camping with family and friends.
#WomenReadWomen2019

“What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.”

#WanderingJune | 23: #DontCryForMeArgentina

📷: Made with Typorama

Happy National Read In The Bathtub Day!
#readeverywhere

For a translated book published before 1945. When I picked this one, I didn‘t realize it‘s selected stories, and only two of them are pre-1945. It still counts, though, right?

#ReadingWomenChallenge2019

How do you read short stories? I prefer to tab the start of each one and write my rating for each story on the tabs once finished. I use my #bookdarts to still mark favourite quotes.
Pedro is just about the same size of the book and you can make out Bindi as the black shape in the left hand corner
#currentlyreading #shortstories #bookintranslation #dogsoflitsy #readingbuddies

When your three holds come in at once and you find a short story collection that you become more excited about instead on display...

"When you want to die you fall in love with yourself, you look for something touching that will save you."

(from Silvina Ocampo's preface to the collection, discussing why she became a writer)

Reading three books as the mood takes me, although one is for work (review): The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehman; Thus Were Their Faces by Silvia Ocampo; Now That It's Over by O Thiam Chin.

Since I don't know how much time I'll have to read this month, I decided to start off October with some short stories. They're described as "dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque". Sounds like a good time ? #booktober #setinSouthAmerica #ebook

Do you remember that hunchbacked watchmaker who fixed your clock? The one who lived on the flat roof of this building in the hut he built himself that looked like a doghouse? I called it the Clock House. The one who specialized in alarm clocks?

She was trying to remember the day she was born. She furrowed her brows so much that the adults interrupted her telling her repeatedly to unwrinkle her forehead. That was why she couldn't reach the memory of her birth. --"Forgotten Journey"