Hi, folks!
Summer is waning and I seem to be stepping in dry leaves everywhere. It’s time to wrap up my reading projects for the season.
20 Books of Summer, hosted by Cathy (June- September)
This year, I got distracted and did a poor job in sticking to my 20 Books of Summer list, but I enjoyed all the books I read:
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne Porter
- Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz
- Tentacle, by Rita Indiana
- People in the Room, by Norah Lange
- Patience and Sarah, by Isabel Miller
- Marriage, by Susan Ferrier
Spanish Lit Month, hosted by Stu and Richard (July – August)
Here are the books I read for the Spanish Lit Month:
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- Comemadre, by Roque Larraquy, tr. Heather Cleary
- Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz, tr. Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff
- Tentacle, by Rita Indiana, tr. Achy Obejas
- People in the Room, by Norah Lange, tr. Charlotte Whittle
Women in Translation Month, hosted by Meytal (August)
I also strayed from my WITMonth TBR. Here are the books I ended up reading this month:
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- The Last Summer, by Ricarda Huch, tr. Jamie Bulloch (* I read this in German)
- People in the Room, by Norah Lange, tr. Charlotte Whittle
- A Jewish Mother from Berlin / Susanna, by Gertrud Kolmar, tr. Brigitte M. Goldstein (* I read this in German)
- Tentacle, by Rita Indiana, tr. Achy Obejas
- Child of All Nations, by Irmgard Keun, tr. Michael Hofmann (* I read this in German)
- Amora: Stories, by Natália Borges Polesso, tr. Julia Sanches
- Blue Flowers by Carola Saavedra, tr. Daniel Hahn
- So Long a Letter, by Mariama Bâ, tr. Modupé Bodé-Thomas
- Eva, by Carry van Bruggen, tr. Jane Fenoulhet
- After Midnight, by Irmgard Keun, tr. Anthea Bell (* I read this in German)
I also read/reread three Brazilian books which have not been translated to English yet:
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- A Rainha do Ignoto, by Emília Freitas (1899, ‘Queen of Ignotus’, not translated yet)
- Controle, by Natália Borges Polesso (2019, ‘Control’, not translated yet)
- Úrsula, by Maria Firmina dos Reis (1859, ‘Ursula’, not translated yet)
On Instagram, I posted a WIT book recommendation a day in Ausgust:
Finally, some WIT related posts I wrote this month:
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- A profile & a handful of poems by Pakistani poet Sara Shagufta
- A profile of Chinese author Ru Zhijuan & a review of her short story The Path through the Grassland
- Source fo the story: Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, ed. Gladys Yang, several translators (1982). I am still reading the stories in this collection and will be posting about each of them in the following months.
That’s it for now, folks! In the following weeks, I will be posting about the books I read but have not reviewed yet. What have you read this Summer?
Yours truly,
J.

List and plans are made to be broken – looks like a good summer of reading to me! 😀
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Thank you, Karen! =]
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Wow, good work with the WIT in particular! I got my 20 books of summer done with a few days to spare, but actually finished 43 books in that time!
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Thank you, Liz! 43 books, that’s so great! 🙂 I have been terrible at sticking to lists, but I love to make them…
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