Gem of Books | Women In Translation TBR - August 2023 @GemofBooks | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Its TBR time again and with #womenintranslation #garbaugust and the #worldcupreadathon it is quite a packed one!

Check out Jolene's Reading Canada Challenge details here - youtube.com/watch?v=PyAYqD3XU2E&t=906s

My Alice & Agatha Challenge details are here - youtube.com/watch?v=5AfsMxW5-PI&t=84s

Booktuber Inspired TBR - youtube.com/watch?v=09AnMo4mFhY

FOMO Bookclub Announcement Video - youtube.com/watch?v=nFJINMDI_og

Women's World Cup Readathon Announcement - youtube.com/watch?v=LUJxqtZ6OyE&t=236s

Garbaugust Announcement - youtube.com/watch?v=rMp_Wi0Ovbs

#booktube #tbr #fomobookclub #wit #translatedfiction
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Books Mentioned:

Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Town That Drowned by Riel Nason
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Take Six edited by Maragret Jull Costa
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry (translated by Alison Anderson)
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (translated by Margaret Sayers)
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Barbarian Alien by Ruby Dixon
19 Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)
The Barefoot Women by Scholastique Mukasonga (translated by Jordon Stump)
Cassandra by Christa Wolfe (translated by Jan Van Heurck)
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitkin)
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-Sook Shin (translated by Ha-Yun Jung)
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Channels Mentioned:

@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
@stalkingkafka
@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
@BookswithEmilyFox
@BookwormAdventureGirl
@spreadbookjoy
@CriminOllyBlog
@BookTimewithElvis
@GunpowderFictionPlot
@jenvcampbell
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My Amazon Wishlist:

amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/XSET66N93YSK/?ref_=lol_ov_le

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Thanks for watching! New content every Tuesday and Saturday (and the odd Thursday)!

Lots of Love,

Gem xx

email: gemofbooks@outlook.com

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Contents:

00:24 Last Months TBR
1:44 August Readathons
2:22 World Cup Readathon
04:57 Bookclubs
07:17 Buddy Reads
10:34 Goal Book
10:59 Garbaugust
12:15 Women In Translation
16:54 Thanks!