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I buy a lot of books. Never seem to read any of them as I'm always translating something else/on twitter/falling asleep mid-sentence
This year I thought I'd keep track of what I read. It's a pretty random selection....
January 2020
This year I thought I'd keep track of what I read. It's a pretty random selection....
January 2020
January 2020
And my breakfast time project, on the days when I manage to get up at 7am and have 15 mins to myself before the boys come down, is reading these two together, a paragraph at a time. At current pace I will still be on this in 2025...
#norsk
#norsk
Finally catching up with the books I've read recently. February was busy workwise so was completely #kidlit
February reads the e-books
February reads the e-books
And February picture books
Loved The Real Boat and also hope to make time to review it soon for #worldkidlit blog or our new #Russian kid lit site (which is longing for some content!)
February picture books Loved The Real Boat and also hope to make time to review it soon for #worldkidlit blog or our new #Russian kid lit site (which is longing for some content!)
March 2020 ~ books I read Look! I managed one grown-up book. Very topical too: after 2 weeks of lockdown I was unusually nostalgic about the idea of convenience stores
All heartily recommended!
April 2020 ~ books I read 6 excellent #womenintranslation
Picture books from Pakistan, Brazil, Israel
Fiction from Argentina x2, Armenia via Russia, France sort of via Russia (Onegin)
And hyenas in English suburbia :)
Books I read in May MG novels from Japan, Germany and Portugal
Picture books: Iran, Japan, Belgium and South Africa
Translated 2 picture books from Morocco (not seen in real life!)
& I finished reading the German-Nigerian memoir = my next book to translate
#ReadtheWorld
Books I read in June Picture books: a world tour with a sailor Grandpa
, plus Sweden and Latvia and poems from Norway 
2 classic MGs novels with a surprise in common A YA novel in verse to die for And a dazzling and at times gory novel of human origins!
Books I read in July Including 3 in translation: from Greek, German and Arabic (Lebanon
). And four fab #womenintranslation (one book with two authors and two translators) #worldkidlit #WITMonth
Picture books from July
OK, the house is completely full of piles of books waiting to be reshelved, drawings, newspaper crosswords. Having an afternoon of putting away and realise I haven't tweeted my reads since August! Yay, this will be a good distraction from tidying...
OK, there's a reason I abandoned this in July - takes forever to find all the books!
* Picture books read in August *
Incl. translations from Bengali, Slovenian, Hebrew, Estonian and Spanish (Argentina), and one that's bilingual English - Greek!
* Picture books read in August *
Incl. translations from Bengali, Slovenian, Hebrew, Estonian and Spanish (Argentina), and one that's bilingual English - Greek!
And the middle grade /junior fiction we read in August. I didn't manage any grownup books in August.
Incl. translations from Norwegian and German
The Pasta Detectives got my 9 yr old hooked on Detectives and Alfred led to lots of cool whale-related maths questions :)
Incl. translations from Norwegian and German
The Pasta Detectives got my 9 yr old hooked on Detectives and Alfred led to lots of cool whale-related maths questions :)
