This has to be about the coolest ever free book promotion! Thank you @iainmaloney.bsky.social
#translation #booksky #sayakamurata #earthlings #eddievedder
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It was T’s last day at work today. The admin ladies presented him with this adorable illustration of him with his wife (me) and our three cats ❤️
Such lovely cats #adoptdon’tshop
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Okay, that's hilarious. Iran has phenomenal timing.
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.
Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
By the author of Blossoms In The Wind (about kamikaze pilots), Hiroshima, and Nagasaki - three must-read books.
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Birds love munching on the unopened buds on our kobushi magnolia tree - this hiyodori has been having a feast! (just a couple of metres away from the bird feeder 🙄)
Trouble is, he’s opened Pandora’s Box with this one - i don’t know if he can just walk away. There will be consequences!
So glad to see Kanako Nishi published in English, translated by Allison Markin Powell, at long last. Do read Sakura, it’s wonderful - I couldn’t put it down!
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Oh interesting - they look the same as before! Same vibe.
Is that near the venue, or is it the Italian in Ninomiya (I used go there years ago before I moved northwards, I didn’t know it was still there! Long way from the venue though.
Sorry you can’t join us too! But yes, it will be recorded too.
There will also be some special guests not named on the webpage, and also it will be live-streamed, although not all readers will feature on the livestream).
Japan friends, this Sunday March 1st, from 1pm we’ll be celebrating Japanese literature in translation at Human Arts Studio in Tsukuba. Some of my literary translator friends have kindly agreed to come along and read from their work - free and open to all, so do join us!
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Two down, how many more to go? #epsteinfiles
Always a good idea 😅
“You can give us extra treats, for starters.” (My cats)
They all are!
This is something younger Western readers can relate to, and we’ve been writing about it for years.”
“My generation, born in the 1970s and 1980s, is called the ‘employment ice age’ generation,” she says. “They graduated in the 1990s straight into the post-bubble stagnation, and continue to struggle with un- and underemployment.
“Yuzuki believes that books about the struggle of insecure work, including Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) and Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job (translated by Barton), opened doors to Western readers.”
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They are featured on their website.
Yes, they are our rescues but JCN is handling their adoption.
These babies are looking for homes 🩷
Want one or three? 😁
Hard to get a good photo of all four together.
All siblings from the same litter.
Dinner was, oh, maybe five minutes late?
Yes, this is precisely what they are saying.
We were already outnumbered - and now we have four fosters as well 😭