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Mel
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I post about queer and translated fiction, small press, manga, and pretty books 📚✨
some awesome book mail from Bookstore Bunny on Etsy, the Anais Nin is a paperback published in 1948. Love Novel is one I have wanted to read and I have not read that Sontag before📚✨
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
new books I recently bought 📚
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
book mail from Revolving Books who always has a terrific selection 📚
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
books read in November, the highlights were Mourning the Breast by Xi Xi and the Lynne Tillman, the first time reading her and Chris Kraus also. The manga Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo is classic 80’s SF, definitely worth reading. 📚✨
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
inspired by post on Instagram, here are 12 books I think deserve more attention📚✨
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
New releases from @deepvellum.bsky.social and comics publisher @livingtheline.bsky.social, a 1980’s horror manga 📚✨
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
new books!
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
pretty great book mail from MadisonPaperbacks on Etsty and Idle Hands Books on instagram 📚✨
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972), tr. by William Weaver
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
started reading today 📚
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
need
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
some more upcoming books in English translation
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
upcoming books in English translation I found online
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the illustration on the cover is Il Lampione (1926) by Dino Buzzati.
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM