I began a post on my 2018 reading resolutions a few days ago. It was so boring I fell asleep. Hell, it was so boring it put my dog to sleep. Don’t believe me? I began with a section on time management. TIME MANAGEMENT. And while that might be a very worthy endeavor, and there are quite a few very good books that tackle the … Continue reading Hello 2018! Some News & Reading Resolutions (shhhh!…. don’t wake Emma)
2017 was not the best year. I am very aware that may be the understatement of the decade, but there it is. I med an old blogging friend at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival and tried to explain to him why I’d retreated from Social Media (and the world) – which amounted to a list of the same reasons that everyone who eventually retreats from, … Continue reading 2017 In Review
Women In Translation Month is here again. This event, in its third year, was started by the blogger Meytal Radzinski. The idea came out of a number of posts she wrote in which she used The Three Percent website’s yearly translation database to determine the percentage of books in translation written by women which are published each year. The 2014 and 2015 results were depressing and this year seems to be … Continue reading Welcome to Women In Translation Month 2016 – #WITMonth
Dear Readers, In 2009 I thought BookSexy Review would be a great name for a blog. Before the year was out I decided I hated it. But couldn’t think of anything better. It was a bad choice for any number of reasons: It sounds like a blog that reviews romance novels which, as you know, I do not. It provides no useful information about the site. Like what … Continue reading Big Changes
I’m currently enjoying The Brotherhood of Book Hunters by Raphaël Jerusalmy – a swashbuckling Alexander Dumas kind of tale translated from the French by Howard Curtis. It’s completely charming! The two main characters remind me quite a bit of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser. Jerusalmy has taken what’s best about sword & sorcery fiction and moved it into a historical setting – 15th century … Continue reading Random Updates: What I’m Reading, WIT Month Cometh, Summer Holiday Reading & Two Translation Awards Get Together
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