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I remember reading 'Machine Dreams' many years ago and being so impressed that I've read most of Jayne Anne Phillips' novels since then. She's never been an attention-seeker so it's good to see her get this recognition today.

Up on Word by Word, reflections on a few conversations and a lot of books of #bellhooks

bell hooks: The Last Interview and other conversations
#interviews #biography

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When in Catalan, it's wonderful to read a local book.
Even better take it to the mountain.

'When I Sing, Mountains Dance'

#Montserrat
#IreneSola #womenintranslation
#MaraFayeLethem

Over generations, there were:
• the one who fathered & abandoned his own, then took the son of another
• the one who kept 2 families in secret
• the polyamourous one who lived in harmony with husband, lover & child

Ancestral threads?

#Undiscovered

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I couldn't resist the temptation today when we had lunch here, to take a picture of my current read.

#IreneSolà 's When I Sing, Mountains Dance
translated from Catalan by #MaraFayeLethem

A wonderful polyphonic novel set in the Pyrenees.
#CatalanLiterature
#Barcelona
#LaCatalana

Born with a taste for adventure and freedom, Anne Bonny rejects the roles she learns are hers for escapades at sea & love wherever it blossoms.

From 1700's Kinsale to the Carolina's & the Carribbean.

Seaborne by #NualaOConnor
#HistoricalFiction
#Pirates

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Happy birthday to my blog, JacquiWine's Journal, which is 10 years old today! ✨

To celebrate, I've picked a favourite book reviewed during each year of the blog, including titles by Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Dorothy B. Hughes & more. #BookTwitter

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Thoughts on the excellent novel Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener translated by Julia Sanchez.

Looking at family traits for better or worse, are behaviours inherited, can patterns be overcome. Considering cultural theft and reparations. Living in selfexile

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A man visits Peru & Bolivia in 1876, brings back artefacts, writes a book.
A descendant looks at her paternal line. Researches, reflects, imagines - then & now.
Explores ancestral lines and inclinations.

Undiscovered by #GabrielaWiener tr. #JuliaSanches

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A week of literary news and views from Paula at BookJotter Paula Bardell-Hedley 💚 including the Persephone Festival and the 1970 Club...

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Today we publish Granta 167: Extraction.

Read the issue online for free for the next five days: granta.com/products/grant…

#SinéadGleeson 's novel Hagstone observed through the eye of island artist Nell, depicts the struggle of how people live and love, alone or collectively, connected or isolated. How creativity manifests, how humanity uses nature, a legacy.

#irishliterature

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Why Did You Come Back Every Summer by Belén López Peiro, reviewed by Claire McAlpine

#LatinAmericanLiterature #ArgentinianFiction #translatedfiction

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