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Reading Recluse

📘 "The Lonesome Bodybuilder" by Yukiko Motoya,
translated from Japanese into English by Asa Yoneda

A very fun short story collection. They often explore where things go wrong in romantic relationships using absurd circumstances and magical realism.

I think every story is a little bit better (and more gruesome) than the one that comes before it, so it was very rewarding to keep reading.

Cover of 'the lonesome bodybuilder'. It's a greenish-yellow background. There are orange-pinkish bubbles floating upward from the bottom of the cover. Some are pushing each other and bending each other slightly out of shape. The title, author and translator name are written in black in the middle of the cover, beneath each other. The letters appear to be making some dents in the bubbles.
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kaggsy59

Summer’s end – plus some thoughts on unhauling…

My reading during August - and indeed all summer - is proof (if it were needed) that there's no point in me making plans. When I looked ahead at this month, I had a lovely big pile of possibilities for , considered reading more than one Moomin book and hoped to read a Virago. However, needless to say, I went totally off plan, and this is what I actually read:

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings · Summer’s end – plus some thoughts on unhauling…My reading during August – and indeed all summer – is proof (if it were needed) that there’s no point in me making plans. When I looked ahead at this month, I had a lovely big pil…
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kaggsy59

“In truth, we are always guilty…” @Wakefield_Press

As usual with all of my reading plans, I have gone completely off track with this month's WIT choices. I put together a lovely pile of potential reads at the start of the month, but apart from picking up one of Tove Jansson's lovely Moomin books for the Moomin Reading Week, I haven't got to any of the others. Instead, I changed lane and was inexorably drawn towards an unusual sounding title I picked up when I…

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings · “In truth, we are always guilty…” #WITMonth @Wakefield_PressAs usual with all of my reading plans, I have gone completely off track with this month’s WIT choices. I put together a lovely pile of potential reads at the start of the month, but apart fro…
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Taylor Drew :tokyo:

Rather unintentionally read a whole novel this evening by Kuwaiti author Bothayna Al-Essa (tr. Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain).

I haven't read much translated from Arabic and I think nothing from Kuwait, but this book was absolutely fascinated (I read it in one sitting after all). A deeply surreal yet Orwellian look at a future that feels more possible all the time. Highly recommend.

A novel laying slightly sideways, with the left side slightly higher, on a grey sheet. The center of the book shows a deranged-looking illustration of a rabbit head with beams of colour coming out in various thicknesses. Author and book name are written in a large san-serif font within several of these beams, with both translators credited in a much smaller font. A quote from Emily Drabinski of the American Library Association in the top left corner reads: Meaning, metaphor, and the material are all at stake in this sly fable of a near-future won by censors who ban not just books but imagination, dreams, and desire. I'd follow these characters anywhere.
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