My latest translation work 🙏🏻.

I have to sadly say that, despite being one of the most renowned, influential women writers in Indonesia, I've never read NH. Dini before. Glad I won this short story collection from a giveaway. Time to dive into her writings.

#IndonesianLiterature #womenwriters #NHDini

Finally, my review of "Secret of the Three Kingdoms", a rather Alexandre-Dumas take on the original Chinese classic work.

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#SecretOfTheThreeKingdoms #RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms #MaBoyong #LuoGuanzhong

Announcing the 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist! Join us as we reveal the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist on Wednesday 25 March at 2pm GMT.

Introducing the 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction shortlist – six exceptional books, each a testament to how vital women’s writing is to our understanding of the world, and our imagining of tomorrow. Discover the shortlist here: youtu.be/v0O74n1r780

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Ruang (dan Uang) Sendiri: Buah Pembacaan Karya Virginia Woolf Apa yang pada biasanya menghambat kita untuk melakukan sesuatu bukanlah tidak adanya kemauan, melainkan tidak adanya kemampuan. Kata-kata “di mana ada kemauan, di situ ada jalan” kerap kali tidak b…

Ruang (dan Uang) Sendiri: Buah Pembacaan Karya Virginia Woolf

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Haven't said anything about my reading on February but Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper was so hilarious.

#classics #MarkTwain #AmericanLiterature

Very thought-provoking, profound, challenging, and well-written.

#ARoomOfOne'sOwn #VirginiaWoolf #womenissues #feminismwriting

Irish Short Story Collections and Nonfiction to look out for in 2026! Following on from yesterday’s fiction round-up, here are some short story collections and nonfiction titles that I’m interested in checking out over the next twelve months. An Asylum fo…

Irish short story collections and nonfiction to look out for in 2026.

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Irish Fiction to look out for in 2026! 2026 is gearing up to be another great year for Irish Fiction. Some big hitters include Land, the new historical novel from Maggie O’Farrell and The Newer World, a new novel from Sebastian Ba…

Irish Fiction to look out for in 2026!

#IrishLiterature

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The censorship and return of Jin Yong’s novels in Vietnam Before 1975, under the Republic of Vietnam, there were countless privately owned newspapers and magazines. These outlets attracted their readers not only by covering the latest information about wa…

It's quite surprising to know that Jin Yong's novels were banned in Vietnam in the 1970s.

#wuxia #chineseliterature #booksky

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Museum of Innocence | Date Announcement | Netflix YouTube video by Netflix

Orhan Pamuk's 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence, is having a Netflix adaptation. Coming out on February 13th.

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2025: A Change in Attitude 2025 marked a change in my attitude: toward reading, rating, reviewing. Not that significant of a change in reading, though, but still… I’d set up a 25 books for 2025 earlier last year following a …

A reflection on my last year's reading and reviewing...

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Conclusion of my reading in 2025. I actually have six favorite books this year but myyearinbooks website could only generate five so let's just act as if the one left is the honorable mention 😌.

#booksky

My December reading wrap-up 📚✌🏻.

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Girls gotta have a room of their own for everything and anything.

Bold ideas, progressive narrative, but, unfortunately, with a writing style I wouldn't deem good or mature.

3.75/5

Jane Austen's 250th anniversary seems to be the right moment to reread #PrideAndPrejudice.

#booksky #classics

Colm Toibin's muse on what is plot and what had driven him to finally write Brooklyn's sequel.

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The Empire Marches On In 1913, the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in literature on the basis of Gitanjali, a single volume of poems idiosyncratically self-translated from Bengali into English.

The Empire Marches On

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Malam Seribu Jahanam All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Malam Seribu Jahanam, Intan Paramaditha’s second novel after the cri…

I know my review cannot do the book justice, but here's my thoughts on Intan Paramaditha's second novel, Malam Seribu Jahanam.

#booksky #bookreview #IndonesianLiterature

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“Shanghai thirty years ago on a moonlit night …” #eileenchang For once, I know exactly what prompted me to buy the book I’m sharing today – and that was a review by JacquiWine of Eileen Chang’s “Jasmine Tea and other stories”. Ch…

A review of "Jasmine Tea" by Eileen Chang.

#translatedfiction #ChineseLiterature

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Summoning Literary Witches: Intan Paramaditha Rethinks Her Personal Canon This essay is based on a Master’s lecture delivered at the Conrad Award Gala, Conrad Festival, October 29, 2023. Gloria Anzaldúa, a queer Mexican American author with indigenous heritage, tells us …

An interesting take by Intan Paramaditha on the books that (should) influence us. Although, I have to say that making choices is, most of time, a matter of privilege.

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Home Remedies Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang, first published in 2019, is a collection of twelve short stories divided into three parts: family, love, and time and space. As a Chinese migrant herself, Wang s…

New blog post today 📄🖊️. My unbelievably long review of #HomeRemedies by Xuan Juliana Wang. A collection of enigmatic short stories about being uprooted, young and fool, failed romance, and broken families in early 2000s China.

#bookreview #booksky

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My November reading wrap-up 📚✌🏻.

I usually don't like crime fiction whose writing is too flowery to the point that it seems only for effect but damn Tana French is so good.

If a book is a hell, this is it.

4.75/5 ⭐

The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction is ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)’ by Rabih Alameddine. #NBAwards

The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards

The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature is ‘We Are Green and Trembling’ by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from the Spanish Robin Myers. #NBAwards

Iyes, soalnya dia yg paling udah banyak makan asam garam kehidupan.