This month we will focus on the literature of New Zealand. Kia Ora - my name is Amanda Bond and I am a New Zealander currently living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. Throughout this month it is my honour to share some thoughts about the literature of my homeland. I am the Teacher Librarian at … Continue reading Haere Mai – welcome to New Zealand
Day 30: Nobody Wanted Me
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. This story is featured in Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America (ed. Steven Mayers & Jonathan … Continue reading Day 30: Nobody Wanted Me
Day 29: My Grandmother
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. From Armenia, My Grandmother: A Memoir by Fethiye Çetin (tr. Maureen Freely) is a beautiful testament to the author's grandma … Continue reading Day 29: My Grandmother
#WorldKidLitWednesday: Three picture books by Torben Kuhlmann: “Lindbergh,” “Armstrong” and “Edison”
I’ve always had a soft spot for mice. Not the computer kind, nor the kind that were supposed to make Victorian women shriek and fall into a dead faint. (Probably because their corsets were too tight….but I digress.) No, the cute, cotton, and cuddly kind. So I fell hard for Torben Kuhlmann’s imaginative historical fiction … Continue reading #WorldKidLitWednesday: Three picture books by Torben Kuhlmann: “Lindbergh,” “Armstrong” and “Edison”
Day 28: Drinking the Sea at Gaza
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. My choice for Israel had to focus on the occupation of Palestine – Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and … Continue reading Day 28: Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Day 27: The Beekeeper of Sinjar
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. Written by Dunya Mikhail and translated by Mikhail along with Max Weiss, this book had me completely spellbound for an … Continue reading Day 27: The Beekeeper of Sinjar
Day 26: Cracking India
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. Also published as Ice Candy Man, this is a remarkable novel set against the 1947 Partition of India, written by … Continue reading Day 26: Cracking India
Day 25: Soviet Milk
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. Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 and shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2019, this is a literary … Continue reading Day 25: Soviet Milk
Day 24: Bride and Groom
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 picked up this copy of Bride and Groom by Alisa Ganieva (tr. Carol Apollonio) in a bookstore in New … Continue reading Day 24: Bride and Groom
Day 23: So Long a Letter
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. Recommended by a colleague who loved this book, So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (tr. Modupé Bodé-Thomas) is a … Continue reading Day 23: So Long a Letter
