pick#readingintranslation #Brazil translated from Portuguese.I‘m really glad I read these 13 stories about favela life in Rio de Janeiro.As in all lives, there is ,love ,friendship,and humor but growing up in one of the poorest communities in the world , there is violence, drugs, gangs, and exploitation by the police.There is a real vibrant quality to the writing that kept me wanting to know more about this place and the people who live there.
I love it when fiction gets history right. I love it even more when it is relatively obscure history. #china #readaroundtheworld #readingintranslation #HSreadathon
pickComing-of-age novels about girls are usually written in rosy, nostalgic style, and this boarding school novel is no different. What's different is how these girls come of age: rather than maturing and accepting responsibility, this documents the transformation of girls who innocently/thoughtlessly parrot their parents' genocidal rhetoric into women who have internalized the rhetoric as their own. 👇👇👇
panThe author spent most of his life working with the tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan--the people we refer to as “terrorists.“ So I was excited to find a novel that showed their traditions, cultures, and identities. But UGH. There was no plot, the “great human emotions“ this book lauds were told to the reader instead of being shown, and the tone of the whole thing was moralistic and patronizing. #Pakistan #readaroundtheworld #readingintranslation
pickI mean, I wouldn't expect even the majority of people who read this bitty-but-brilliant book to like it, but it feels so important, so relevant (written in 1990!!), and so mind-blowing that I want to thrust a copy of this book into the hands of every person I pass on the street and shout into their faces, “READ THIS BOOK. READ THIS BOOK RIGHT MEOW.“ #Argentina #readaroundtheworld #readingintranslation #readharder
I know César Aira has a reputation of being surreal to the point of making the most abstract-loving literary critics throw their hands up in bewilderment, but he's kinda blowing my mind. Like, a lot. #Argentina #readaroundtheworld #readingintranslation #readharder
Super interesting and surprisingly madcap book about/by an author from #Angola #readaroundtheworld #readingintranslation #readharder
pickThis popular science book looks at a variety of current projects intended to bring back extinct species—wooly mammoth, passenger pigeon, aurochs, dinosaurs. She also looks at attempts to engineer the DNA of corals and the functionally extinct American chestnut. Ethics issues are addressed. I found this book to be fascinating and balanced, there is a lot to think about! Also: cloning is not a thing for extinct animals!
My hold for this at the library came in really quick! I‘m starting it tonight. Hope it‘s good! #readingintranslation #amreading #fromthelibrary
I just started this one--a book club pick for the end of the month--and now I have a total of seven books in progress. 😳Gotta finish a couple of these this weekend! #Litsypartyofone goals!
I'm enjoying this so far--it's fascinating to read a Japanese fantasy novel, drawing on folklore outside my usual fantasy reads. And isn't this opening illustration gorgeous?#readingintranslation #diversebooks
