Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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May is my birthday month! I've made a big deal of it! I got a bunch of new books recently, and I'm proud of them! Now let's do a bit of a show-and-tell, and maybe you can help me pick my next read(s) 🖤

People mentioned:
@katsfieldnotes
@hannahmay11
@kiranreader

Books:
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (1985)
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner (2016)
The Fawn by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1959)
Audiard par Audiard by Michel Audiard/René Chateau (1995)
Kurt Weill en France by Alain Jomy (2023)
Passion simple (Simple Passion) by Annie Ernaux (1992)
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (2021)
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks) (1991)
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (trans. Rosalind Harvey) (2020)
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley (2020)
Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell) (2018)
This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2017)
Essayism by Brian Dillon (2017)
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation ed. by Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang (2022)
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye) (1947)
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee) (1963)
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis) (1962)

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