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Well, what little I heard about this book, indeed verbatim of the blurb on the back, that caused me to pick it up, wasn't a lie.
It's just that the experience of actually reading it was so far from what I expected that it feels less like a disappointment and more a displacement. 1/?

I have been meaning to read this very short Spanish-to-English translated novel for a whiiiillleeee. I was hoping that at the end of it, it will all somehow tie together, that everything I had read prior to the ending would make sense... but it didn‘t. And I was left CONFUSED AF.

Hello #integrateyourshelf friends! Sorry I‘m so late posting this week, I‘m in Scotland with almost no internet signal. These are some of my favourite #womenintranslation from the Americas. I particularly love the iliac crest which is by a Mexican writer, and anything at all by Clarice Lispector!

One idea that really stuck with me after reading this book was the impossibility of turning away after restricting delineations (of language, gender, and the physical as a whole) begin to dissolve. I‘ve been thinking lately about how once you start to challenge your own narratives it‘s impossible to not start seeing—and then rejecting—lots of restrictive views. It‘s good to be questioning, to be curious.

A book about identities, bodies and language is just the kind of dense thematic fiction I usually enjoy. There were a lot of ideas here, but despite its beautifully translated prose style, this tangle of symbols and signifiers didn‘t add up for me. While this book gestures at the freedom that comes with the dissolution of social, semantic and personal norms, it‘s failure to engage with the pressure and power behind these norms rang hollow for me.

On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house. And they hang around an awful long time. A novel about borders; physical, past/present, gender, sanity and reality. This is a book in translation and I would read others by the author as I like her writing style however it's a so-so based on a main thread of a famous untranslated Mexican author that I have no knowledge of so I'm definitely missing something.

I have heard only great things about The Iliac Crest and I was happy to discover these 2 other books at Foyles published by the same small press. They each seem to have weird & enticing plots— can‘t wait to read them all 😃 #bookhaul

This was unlike anything I‘d ever read before and I loved every page of it. So rich and strange, such lyrical writing, and every page and everything that happened was so original. I‘d recommend for anyone looking for something gothic and surreal.

I‘m in love with this publisher And Other Stories, everything I‘ve ever read that they‘ve published has been breathtaking. Probably my fave indie publisher rn.

Its nearly 1pm and I‘m in my dressing gown with coffee and an astonishingly good book. Does it get better than this??

I‘m going out for New Years and I‘m very excited, I want to rest up in advance as I have a sight cold and will need all my energy. I‘ve never been out for nye before, and I‘ve never managed to spend it with my bf in 5 years, so even tho nye is often disappointing for a lot of people I‘m excited for my first proper one 💖

This will be my first book of 2019 and im starting as i mean to go on - I want to spend this year reading more by women, by poc, books translated from other languages and books I already own so that I can give them away and feel like I‘m not just hoarding dead trees for nothing. This book is all four and it looks incredible

#tbr #translation https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/our-favorite-internationa...

My friend Kristina, whose opinion I regard very highly, recommended this to me ages ago. Now I‘m getting around to it and so far it was a wise decision.

I‘ve been thinking about this topic a lot.

Copying the article here to read it in full sometime soon:

https://pentransmissions.com/2018/05/17/cristina-rivera-garza/

Yesterday was a snow day (!), so I tore through 3 new/upcoming books:
--Bernice Yeung's IN A DAY'S WORK, about sexual violence against immigrant women in agriculture & domestic work;
--Sandhya Menon's FROM TWINKLE WITH LOVE, which is a delight!;
--the fifth Penderwicks book, which was lovely in many ways & disappointing in one.

So now I'm back to this weirdo, which I started a while ago but really need to concentrate on. Creepy and discomfiting.

“you are never more authentic than when inside your own nightmares.”