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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new addition ('The Woman in Cabin 10') to the surprisingly extensive Keira Knightley library, for people who only want to read books with Keira Knightley on them.

15 different books, all (but one) movie or TV tie-in titles, all with Keira Knightley on the cover.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2h

They're coming into English thick and fast, it feels like.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2h

I'm even going to a discussion about it! www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

Matilda, Translated Book Club November 2025

www.trybooking.com

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair, at least we can now all relax a bit.

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2h

Well I'm glad SOMEBODY is pulling their weight.

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2h

Intriguing! I'm reading it for a discussion in November, so I will get to it in reasonably timely fashion, probably.

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2h

Love to be a helpful colleague

An email with the text: 'Writing to me about this is, on your part, an act of wild folly.'

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 4h

Only bought 2 books this week, so the publishing industry is probably about to collapse.
(Translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social and @antonhur.com)

2 books:

Khadija Mastur: The Woman's Courtyard (trans. Daisy Rockwell)
Bora Chung: The Midnight Timetable (trans. Anton hur)

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 7h

Yay!

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 8h

Work AGM day:

The painting 'The Suicide' by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, showing a dead man lying on a bed in murky light, a dropped pistol on the floor

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 9h

(just apologising to @harrysargent2.bsky.social -- this was supposed to be me going "Isn't this interesting?" rather than me being a snotty prick)

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1d

It's the old typeface:

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1d

I need to read more of her. So many writers, they need to thin the herd a bit.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1d

THIS IS HARD. Tobias Wolff, though he hasn't published anything in ages, or Ted Chiang both spring to mind.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

Nice joke you’ve got there. Be a real shame if I repeated the content of it back to you with aggressively pedantic sincerity.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder why they did that.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1d

This is brutal timing.

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1d

YES YES 1000X YES

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1d

YOU SHOULD BE

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile a book of her stories seems to be Audible-only, which is wrong.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2d

[shakes fist impotently]

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2d

On closer inspection, you also get a slightly MORE distressed background, but a slightly less distressed lemon. It's probably some freemason thing.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2d

Can never tell with those tricky Japanese and their I-novels

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2d

hahahaha

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2d

Fair

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2d

Unusually, the forthcoming book by Mieko Kawakami (which I want now, but must wait until March for) has virtually the same cover design for both the UK (Picador) and US (Knopf) editions, except that the latter has the mandated "A Novel" added by obscure US law.

Cover of SISTERS IN YELLOW by Mieko Kawakami (trans. Laurel Taylor & Hitomi Yoshio), showing a lemon in a glass on a pink and black background.

Cover of SISTERS IN YELLOW by Mieko Kawakami (trans. Laurel Taylor & Hitomi Yoshio), showing a lemon in a glass on a pink and black background. THis version also has "A NOVEL" added in small type.

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