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Radz Pandit
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Avid reader, book reviewer & amateur book photographer. I write about books on my blog Radhika’s Reading Retreat. Love art and travel too. Website: https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com Also on: linktr.ee/radzpandit
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · Dec 17
These are MY BEST BOOKS OF 2024 featuring Lars Gustafsson, Barbara Comyns, Celia Fremlin, Mathias Enard, Barbara Pym and more. New blog post here:
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A stack of the best books I read in 2024.
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 3h
Eight wonderfully unsettling books for October 💀🎃
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Eight Unsettling Books for October
October, the heart of the spooky season and culminating in Halloween, is the perfect month to immerse oneself in books that have the power to unsettle. And here is a stack of books I read this year…
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2h
Wonderful, thank you for the recs!
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2h
My first Laxness was SALKA VALKA. I read it a couple of years ago and loved it, such a brilliant, immersive book. Have you read any more Laxness? I must add Undset to my wishlist too!
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2h
You are welcome:)
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2h
Definitely worth getting👍
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2h
Among her novels would definitely recommend DEATH AND THE SEASIDE and MISSING.
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2h
Quite possible. It is a confronting collection in many ways, particularly the titular story. But like you I loved it:)
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2h
Thank you:) The Ramuz is great, quite eerie and menacing, and I love Alison Moore's books. An author well worth exploring. Agree with you on Jenkins, Harriet was pretty dark but superbly written.
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 3h
Eight wonderfully unsettling books for October 💀🎃
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Eight Unsettling Books for October
October, the heart of the spooky season and culminating in Halloween, is the perfect month to immerse oneself in books that have the power to unsettle. And here is a stack of books I read this year…
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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 3d
‘Toddler-Hunting and other stories’ by Taeko Kōno (1969)

Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky
Cover with an old photo of a Japanese mother and daughter, with the child crossed out. ‘The power of the artfully spun words makes the reader shudder’ -SAYAKA MURATA, author of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d
Oooh, a new Laxness! I'm reading Independent People currently which is very good so far.
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d
New arrival. I'm really looking forward to this one; it will be out in February. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Book: A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d
#BlogArchives My post on YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN. Dorothy Baker writes wonderfully about music, jazz, ambition, and male friendship.
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Young Man with a Horn – Dorothy Baker
I’m enjoying the #NYRBWomen23 reading project this year, hosted by Kim McNeill, and have read a couple of wonderful novels as a result – Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet and Vicki Baum’s Gr…
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d
Forthcoming titles from McNally Editions including a vampire novel! Wonderful covers as ever.
Stainless by Todd Grimson Quake by Kitty Mrosovsky Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady by Dinah Brooke Élisabeth by Éric Rohmer
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d
New #bookmail. Two more books from Foundry Editions after having loved BRANDY SOUR.
Three books published by Foundry Editions: Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou Far by Rosa Ribas Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2d
In "An Eye in the Throat", a moment’s distraction leads to tragedy when a young father’s son swallows a lithium battery that leaves him mute, forever changing their lives. Blending a singular narrative with suspense & eerie late-night calls, this poignant story explores parental guilt & resentment.
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grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social · 2d
Alexander Baron's repeatedly rediscovered novel The Lowlife:
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The Lowlife
Alexander Baron’s 1963 novel, The Lowlife, already had a history of being rediscovered before its inclusion in Faber Editions, an imprint which specialises in neglected classics, and John Williams …
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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 2d
#NYRBWomen25 Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles. la.curbed.com/maps/los-ang...
Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles
Take a tour of the writer’s sexy, smoggy city of the 1960s and ’70s.
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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 2d
“Once you’re on Orange Grove, you’re on your own and you should forget the map, time, and how you’re going to get back. Just find a street to wander […] and go look at the Gamble House and see if it’s open.” (p52) #NYRBWomen25 gamblehouse.org
“The Gamble House was built in 1908 for a rich Cincinnati family (part of Procter & Gamble) as a winter house. It was designed by the Greene Brothers…” (p52) Entrance to the Gamble House. “The inside of the house is mostly made of polished teak, carved by one of the Greene Brothers in a pattern called the ‘cloud design.’ … The windows, lamps, and even the rug designs are by Tiffany” (p52)
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2d
I loved this radical, powerful collection of essays by Emilie Pine touching upon topics such as caring for an alcoholic parent and the crippling grief of infertility. #BlogArchives #NotesToSelf
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Notes to Self – Emilie Pine
While looking at my reading habits over the last few years, I realize I haven’t read too many essay collections (something I need to correct), but I have been quite impressed with the ones I have –…
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 2d
Seven years ago, I came across a strange novel about a woman who tries to raise a orangutan as a human. In 2020, with the help of @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's Appius and Virginia saw print again after almost 90 years—and now her renaissance continues.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 3d
Having just finished Han Kang's We Do Not Part, I don't have the words to express the experience other than to say this is an instance where I'd suggest reading all her other works first.

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We Do Not Part – Han Kang (tr. E. Yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris)
Han Kang is one of my favourite authors – loved both The Vegetarian and The White Book – but inexplicably I did not read anything by her since then. She came into my orbit once again after being aw…
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 3d
I read it early this year and loved it!
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Sarah Matthews @sarahmatthews.bsky.social · 4d
Here’s my review of A Start in Life, 1981, by Anita Brookner, a wonderful, thoughtful novel that surprised and delighted me! 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c3f94b8f-fc4e-40e5-8627-8ec73594cf91
Review by sarahmatthews - A Start in Life
A Start in Life by Anita Brookner Read partly in Braille and partly as text to speechPenguin ...
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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 4d
In “William in the Window,” two women, who forge an unexpected friendship at a writers’ retreat, are later unsettled by the scratching noises of a cat who has died. A story that explores grief and the fear of losing your loved ones.
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