Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (translated by Lawrence Schimel) is the first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to … Continue reading Day 7: La Bastarda
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#WorldKidLitWednesday: Witchfairy
Rosemary is a fairy who doesn’t want to be neat and sweet all the time. No way! She’d rather be a witch living in a treehouse in the witches’ wood, roller-skating and getting nice and dirty. Her mom rejects her wayward daughter’s choices, while the witches encourage Rosemary to take risks and challenge herself. But … Continue reading #WorldKidLitWednesday: Witchfairy
Day 6: Kintu
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. The very first book I read for this project was Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – a Ugandan novelist and … Continue reading Day 6: Kintu
Day 5: Flights
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. I knew as I was finishing the idiosyncratic Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Jennifer Croft) that I'd have to revisit … Continue reading Day 5: Flights
Day 4: Fish Soup
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. Shortly after reading Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo (tr. Charlotte Coombe) – a sharp, entertaining story collection – I … Continue reading Day 4: Fish Soup
Day 3: Abandon
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. I was whisked through Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (tr. Arunava Sinha), a dreamy blur of a novel, in the midst … Continue reading Day 3: Abandon
Day 2: Brother in Ice
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. It was around two hot chocolates in on an overcast August (!) afternoon that I realised how much of a … Continue reading Day 2: Brother in Ice
Day 1: Disoriental
Across the first month of 2020, Sophie Baggott is sharing her thirty favourite books by women from across the world. Find out more about her project to read women writers from every country worldwide here. One of the earliest novels I picked up for my project, Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (tr. Tina Kover), had me … Continue reading Day 1: Disoriental
Thirty Days of Reading Women’s Writing Worldwide
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#WorldKidLitWednesday: Can I Build Another Me?
Kevin has had enough of homework and household chores, so he buys a robot to do them for him. Simple, right? Ah, but there’s a catch: No one is to know the robot is not him. When Kevin attempts to tell the robot about himself, he discovers that he has a lot of information to … Continue reading #WorldKidLitWednesday: Can I Build Another Me?
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