Author | Lightnews

WildWritingLife

WildWritingLife

@wildwritinglife.bsky.social

120 followers 93 following 240 posts

Hi, I am Ilana, multi-lingual #freelance writer and translator in love with books. When I'm not reading, l travel and write about this too. #amreading #booknerd wildwritinglife.blogspot.de

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 3d

October was so far my best reading month this year. Looking forward to an even more bookish November #amreading #bookblogger

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 3d

#Bookreview: Nowhere Girl wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/nowh... #amreading #memoir #bookblogger #adhd

Nowhere Girl by Carla Ciccone

All her young and adult life, Toronto-based journalist Carla Ciccone struggled: to have healthy relationships, to maintain a healthy relati...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 3d

#Bookreview: Le feu du milieu wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/le-f... #comoros #amreading #bookblogger

Le Feu du Milieu by Touhfat Mouhtare

Two women who do not want to follow their assigned path. A world of legends where trade routes bring merchants from all over the world. Taki...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 7d

#Bookreview: Fundamentally wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/fund... #amreading #bookblogger

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

A disillusioned academic with a strained relationship with her strictly religious mother, Nadia the main character of Fundamentally , the de...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 11d

#Bookreview: Le peintre dévorant la femme wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/le-p... #amreading #frenchbooks

Le peintre devorant la femme by Kamel Daoud

In 2017, Algerian author Kamel Daoud spent one night in Picasso Museum in Paris, an occasion to meditate - and write about it - about the r...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 13d

#Hostage #bookreview thinknow-thinknow.blogspot.com/2025/10/host... #amreading

Hostage by Eli Sharabi translated into English by Eylon Levy

A couple of weeks back was chatting with an American-Jewish writer who just returned from Israel and on her storytelling voice she was rheto...

thinknow-thinknow.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 15d

#Bookreview: The Persians wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... #amreading #bookblogger

The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji

The women characters of The Persians , the debut novel by Tehran-born London-based Sanam Mahloudji are strong willed, refusing to liste...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 15d

#Bookreview: Hunting in America thinknow-thinknow.blogspot.com/2025/10/book... #amreading #bookblog

Book Review: Hunting in America by Tehila Hakimi translated by Joanna Chen

The unnamed woman character of author and poet Tehila Hakimi´ s debut novel Hunting in America , translated into English by Joanna Chen ( ...

thinknow-thinknow.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 20d

Le Verbe Libre ou le Silence: wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/le-v... #frenchbooks #amreading #bookblogger

Le Verbe Libre ou le Silence by Fatou Diome

One day, when I will seriously consider my option of doing more literary videos, Fatou Diome should be one of the first authors to interview...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 22d

Bientôt les vivants by Amina Damerdji wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/bien... #amreading #algerian #booksinfrench

Bientôt les vivants by Amina Damerdji

Selma is a teenager, passionate about horseback riding. She belongs to a middle-class Algerian family, living with her parents, her grand-mo...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 27d

#Bookreview: Blood Vintage by @thecreativepenn wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/bloo... #amreading #bookblogger #horror

Blood Vintage by J.F.Penn

Rebecca´s dreams of pursuing her career as an architect in London are shattered following a conflict with eco-activists. Disillusioned and h...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · 28d

Schwindel #bookreview wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/schw... #queer #booksingerman

Schwindel by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

Ministerium der Träume was an excellent debut roman, but Hengameh Yaghoobifarah ´ second, Schwindel - Dizzy , according to a German/Englis...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Oct 3

#Bookreview: If You Don´t Like This I Will Die wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/10/if-y... #memoir #amreading #socialmedia

If You Don´t Like This I Will Die by Lee Tilghman

It is hard to conceive my life outside social media: I am an active personal and professional user and through my daily interactions I´ve no...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Sep 29

Where I pledge for reading more Bulgarian literature and talking about it: wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/09/wolf... #amreading #bookblogger #booknerd

Wolf Hunt by Ivailo Petrov

This year I continued my journey discovering Bulgarian literature . This time, I had the chance to get my eyes on a translation into Germa...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Sep 24

#Bookreview: Adama thinknow-thinknow.blogspot.com/2025/09/adam... #amreading #kibbutz

Adama by Lavie Tidhar

´They´re good boys, but bad things happen in war´. The Hebrew word ´ adama ´ - earth, do include the word ´ dam ´ - blood. Lavie Tidhar ´s...

thinknow-thinknow.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Sep 24

#Bookreview: Hello Beautiful wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/09/hell... #amreading #bookblogger

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

I am always very reluctant to read book everyone is talking about hence my stoic patience of waiting few years sometimes more until the echo...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Sep 14

#Bookreview: Im Herzen der Katze wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/09/deut... #dbp25 #NetGalleyDE

Deutscher Buchpreis: Im Herzen der Katze by Jina Khayyer

On 16 September 2022, Jina Mahsa Amini, an Iranian 22-year old woman of Kurdish origin, was brutally beaten by the so-called ´morality polic...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Sep 12

#Bookreview: An Inside Job by Daniel Silva wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/09/an-i... #thriller #gabrielallon

An Inside Job by Daniel Silva

This is usually the time of the year to review the latest Daniel Silva book, featuring the fearless painter turned much-feared Mossad execu...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Sep 8

#dbp25 Russische Spezialitäten #bookreview #booksingerman wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/09/deut...

Deutscher Buchpreis: Russische Spezialitäten by Dmitrij Kapitelman

With humour and elegance, Dmitrij Kapitelman is sharing in Russische Spezialtäten - in my own translation, Russian delicacies - family st...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Sep 2

#Bookreview: Shattered wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/09/shat... #memoir #booklover #booknerd

Shattered by Hanif Kureishi

When one is suddenly faced with a dramatic, health-related event, there is nothing else to do but swim against the waves of dispair. If you ...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Aug 21

#Bookreview: The Self-Made Widow wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... #amreading #crimenovels

The Self-Made Widow by Fabian Nicieza

´I don´t care if it´s a stranger or a friend, we look for evidence and we follow that evidence to whatever the truth bears out´. I spend eve...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Aug 21

#Bookreview: The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/08/quee... #historicalfiction #lockedroommystery #bookblogger

The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict

Since her debut , Marie Benedict is a writer that is challenging the narrative on women writing. Her characters are women, many of those fo...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Aug 21

#Bookreview: Geordnete Verhältnisse by Lana Lux wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/08/geor... #amreading #bookblogger #bookish

Geordnete Verhältnisse by Lana Lux

I´ve read everything Lana Lux published until now and I am never disappointed, particularly due to her deep understanding of human feelings...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Aug 6

Die Tochter des Kommunisten wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/08/die-... #amreading #booksingerman #spanishauthors

Die Tochter des Kommunisten by Aroa Moreno Durán translated into German by Marianne Gareis La hija del comunista

The echoes of Spanish civil war and the Franco dictatorship into the European history and literature is a topic that I am very much interest...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com

WildWritingLife @wildwritinglife.bsky.social · Jul 28

Le défi de Jerusalem: wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/07/le-d... #pilgrimage #booksinfrench

Le défi de Jerusalem by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

It´s vacation time and I am in the mood for more travel-related content, both in terms of social media and reading resources. But my heart...

wildwritinglife.blogspot.com