Alexandra Cristie
@alexcristie.bsky.social
book blogger, short fiction writer, (armchair) traveler, migratory bird 📚
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
📖 https://alexandracristie.com
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
📖 https://alexandracristie.com
Pinned
I just arrived here from the other platform. To kick things off, here's a stack of books to get to known me 📚
Fun was had, books were bought📚
Compliments to my lovely partner & thanks to everyone who shared their opinion on my wishlist 🧡
#bookSky #WITMonth #womenInTranslation
Compliments to my lovely partner & thanks to everyone who shared their opinion on my wishlist 🧡
#bookSky #WITMonth #womenInTranslation
August 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Fun was had, books were bought📚
Compliments to my lovely partner & thanks to everyone who shared their opinion on my wishlist 🧡
#bookSky #WITMonth #womenInTranslation
Compliments to my lovely partner & thanks to everyone who shared their opinion on my wishlist 🧡
#bookSky #WITMonth #womenInTranslation
I recently registered for a Spanish language course starting next month, after spending a month trying to decide between Spanish and Italian. Now I randomly found this Ginzburg in the original Italian and I half regret my decision…
August 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I recently registered for a Spanish language course starting next month, after spending a month trying to decide between Spanish and Italian. Now I randomly found this Ginzburg in the original Italian and I half regret my decision…
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New on the blog: I wrote about Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, tr. by Antonella Lettieri - a lyrical investigation into the life and death of Calandrone's mother in post-war Italy. Perfect for #WITMonth!
@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
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@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
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Review: Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone (tr. Antonella Lettieri)
Of my mother, I only have two black and white photographs. Apart, of course, from my own life and some biological memories that I’m not sure I can tell apart from suggestion …
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August 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
New on the blog: I wrote about Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, tr. by Antonella Lettieri - a lyrical investigation into the life and death of Calandrone's mother in post-war Italy. Perfect for #WITMonth!
@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
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@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
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My latest review for #WITMonth, SUNKEN CITY by Marta Barone (tr Julia MacGibbon).
I loved this thoroughly absorbing story of the personal & the political, which delves into the tangled history of Italy's Years of Lead. Margaret Drabble is a fan! #BookSky 💙📚
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I loved this thoroughly absorbing story of the personal & the political, which delves into the tangled history of Italy's Years of Lead. Margaret Drabble is a fan! #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/s...
Sunken City by Marta Barone (tr. Julia MacGibbon)
In this fascinating, deeply moving book, the Italian writer Marta Barone takes the reader on a journey to reconstruct the father, Leonardo Barone (LB), she only partially knew before his death – an…
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August 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My latest review for #WITMonth, SUNKEN CITY by Marta Barone (tr Julia MacGibbon).
I loved this thoroughly absorbing story of the personal & the political, which delves into the tangled history of Italy's Years of Lead. Margaret Drabble is a fan! #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/s...
I loved this thoroughly absorbing story of the personal & the political, which delves into the tangled history of Italy's Years of Lead. Margaret Drabble is a fan! #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/s...
New on the blog: I wrote about Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, tr. by Antonella Lettieri - a lyrical investigation into the life and death of Calandrone's mother in post-war Italy. Perfect for #WITMonth!
@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/08/14/r...
@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/08/14/r...
Review: Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone (tr. Antonella Lettieri)
Of my mother, I only have two black and white photographs. Apart, of course, from my own life and some biological memories that I’m not sure I can tell apart from suggestion …
alexandracristie.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
New on the blog: I wrote about Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, tr. by Antonella Lettieri - a lyrical investigation into the life and death of Calandrone's mother in post-war Italy. Perfect for #WITMonth!
@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/08/14/r...
@foundryeditions.bsky.social #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/08/14/r...
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An ongoing thread of some excellent books by #womenintranslation - all read since last August. 🧵
#WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚
#WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚
August 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
An ongoing thread of some excellent books by #womenintranslation - all read since last August. 🧵
#WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚
#WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚
At the charity shop where I volunteer, there are occasional, magic events where I open a bag of books donated by someone, and I don’t know who this person is, or what they look like, but I know she (I’m also sure she’s a she) is my kindred spirit.
#bookSky
#bookSky
August 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
At the charity shop where I volunteer, there are occasional, magic events where I open a bag of books donated by someone, and I don’t know who this person is, or what they look like, but I know she (I’m also sure she’s a she) is my kindred spirit.
#bookSky
#bookSky
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Announcing Short Story September!
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Announcing Short Story September 2025
Thanks to an enthusiastic response to my Expressions of Interest post back in April, here we are about to launch Short Story September! The catalyst for this month was a cascade of events: a blogge…
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August 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Announcing Short Story September!
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We've been sitting on a secret...
Delighted to announce our brand-new imprint, Outsider Classics 📚 Books for readers pursuing stories fallen by the wayside, from the voices history left in the margins.
Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/news/dead-in...
Delighted to announce our brand-new imprint, Outsider Classics 📚 Books for readers pursuing stories fallen by the wayside, from the voices history left in the margins.
Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/news/dead-in...
August 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We've been sitting on a secret...
Delighted to announce our brand-new imprint, Outsider Classics 📚 Books for readers pursuing stories fallen by the wayside, from the voices history left in the margins.
Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/news/dead-in...
Delighted to announce our brand-new imprint, Outsider Classics 📚 Books for readers pursuing stories fallen by the wayside, from the voices history left in the margins.
Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/news/dead-in...
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Still loving Natalia Ginzburg, read for #Womenintranslation Month2025 peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/v...
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg translated by D. M. Low
It’s been such a joy to read Natalia Ginzburg again for Women in Translation Month—though odd to call it a joy really when, as in so many of her books, her characters’ desire for love and connectio…
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August 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Still loving Natalia Ginzburg, read for #Womenintranslation Month2025 peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/v...
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New on the blog today, I've written about A WOMAN by Sibilla Aleramo (tr Erica Segre & Simon Carnell)
A remarkable autobiographical feminist novel that reads like a cry for liberty, independence & intellectual fulfilment in an oppressive world. #WITMonth 💙📚
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A remarkable autobiographical feminist novel that reads like a cry for liberty, independence & intellectual fulfilment in an oppressive world. #WITMonth 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/a...
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo (tr. Erica Segre and Simon Carnell)
What a phenomenal book this is, an autobiographical feminist novel first published in Italian in 1906, under a pseudonym due to its radical content. Touching on similar themes to Charlotte Perkins …
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August 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about A WOMAN by Sibilla Aleramo (tr Erica Segre & Simon Carnell)
A remarkable autobiographical feminist novel that reads like a cry for liberty, independence & intellectual fulfilment in an oppressive world. #WITMonth 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/a...
A remarkable autobiographical feminist novel that reads like a cry for liberty, independence & intellectual fulfilment in an oppressive world. #WITMonth 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/a...
I don’t know when I became someone who reads memoir, but I’m loving it at the moment!
I finished Your Little Matter, which is one of my best of the year so far, and I’m excited to start A Woman in the Polar Night this evening 📚
#WITMonth #bookSky
@foundryeditions.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
I finished Your Little Matter, which is one of my best of the year so far, and I’m excited to start A Woman in the Polar Night this evening 📚
#WITMonth #bookSky
@foundryeditions.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don’t know when I became someone who reads memoir, but I’m loving it at the moment!
I finished Your Little Matter, which is one of my best of the year so far, and I’m excited to start A Woman in the Polar Night this evening 📚
#WITMonth #bookSky
@foundryeditions.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
I finished Your Little Matter, which is one of my best of the year so far, and I’m excited to start A Woman in the Polar Night this evening 📚
#WITMonth #bookSky
@foundryeditions.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
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There's been a devastating increase in wildfires - even in the heart of our capital - putting people at risk and destroying precious habitats and wildlife. Experts link these fires to increasingly extreme weather.
We're urging political leaders to take real action to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. 🌍🔥
We're urging political leaders to take real action to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. 🌍🔥
August 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
There's been a devastating increase in wildfires - even in the heart of our capital - putting people at risk and destroying precious habitats and wildlife. Experts link these fires to increasingly extreme weather.
We're urging political leaders to take real action to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. 🌍🔥
We're urging political leaders to take real action to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. 🌍🔥
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Help me for a thing, please: Who are your favourite UK-based trade publishers that started up since 2017 and are still going today? Small and indie, preferably (imprints don't count).
August 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Help me for a thing, please: Who are your favourite UK-based trade publishers that started up since 2017 and are still going today? Small and indie, preferably (imprints don't count).
Partner is taking me on a bookshop crawl for my birthday. It's a yearly tradition & I take the opportunity to browse & discover new books, but I also like to make a wishlist for inspo.
Now, from my wishlish or from outside it, give me your recommendations! #bookSky
Now, from my wishlish or from outside it, give me your recommendations! #bookSky
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Partner is taking me on a bookshop crawl for my birthday. It's a yearly tradition & I take the opportunity to browse & discover new books, but I also like to make a wishlist for inspo.
Now, from my wishlish or from outside it, give me your recommendations! #bookSky
Now, from my wishlish or from outside it, give me your recommendations! #bookSky
August 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New #bookmail: ✨What Remains✨ by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers
Set between the 1950s and the present, between Galicia and New York, and described as 'a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance'
Thanks @bullaunpress.bsky.social! #bookSky
Set between the 1950s and the present, between Galicia and New York, and described as 'a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance'
Thanks @bullaunpress.bsky.social! #bookSky
August 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New #bookmail: ✨What Remains✨ by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers
Set between the 1950s and the present, between Galicia and New York, and described as 'a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance'
Thanks @bullaunpress.bsky.social! #bookSky
Set between the 1950s and the present, between Galicia and New York, and described as 'a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance'
Thanks @bullaunpress.bsky.social! #bookSky
Happy #WITMonth! 🎉📚
If you're looking for recommendations, here's this list I made in 2023, containing some of my all time favourite books. I've a second list in the works, containing books I've read since - there's no shortage of bangers here #bookSky
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If you're looking for recommendations, here's this list I made in 2023, containing some of my all time favourite books. I've a second list in the works, containing books I've read since - there's no shortage of bangers here #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2023/08/01/1...
10+ books to read this Women in Translation Month
August is Women in Translation Month, a time when bookworms around the globe celebrate literature written by women in languages other than English. As a non-native English speaker, born and raised …
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August 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Happy #WITMonth! 🎉📚
If you're looking for recommendations, here's this list I made in 2023, containing some of my all time favourite books. I've a second list in the works, containing books I've read since - there's no shortage of bangers here #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2023/08/01/1...
If you're looking for recommendations, here's this list I made in 2023, containing some of my all time favourite books. I've a second list in the works, containing books I've read since - there's no shortage of bangers here #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2023/08/01/1...
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‘It”s a creation myth in many ways. And actually, the creation of the novel itself has become its own creation myth.’
Adam Thirlwell and Marina Warner discuss Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, in an extended extract from their Close Readings subscription series: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Adam Thirlwell and Marina Warner discuss Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, in an extended extract from their Close Readings subscription series: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Adam Thirlwell and Marina Warner · Close Readings: 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley
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August 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
‘It”s a creation myth in many ways. And actually, the creation of the novel itself has become its own creation myth.’
Adam Thirlwell and Marina Warner discuss Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, in an extended extract from their Close Readings subscription series: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Adam Thirlwell and Marina Warner discuss Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, in an extended extract from their Close Readings subscription series: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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New on the blog: Libraries of Helsinki, photo diary
Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
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Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...
Photo diary: Libraries of Helsinki
This July, I went on holiday in the Baltic region, with one of our stops being Helsinki. I always visit bookish spaces while on holiday – local or chain bookshops, shops selling second hand a…
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July 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New on the blog: Libraries of Helsinki, photo diary
Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...
Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...
Love seeing people preparing for the start of #WITMonth tomorrow! Here’s my stack of possibilities (well, a conservative selection of them) 📚 Spotting any favourites?
#bookSky #WomenInTranslation
#bookSky #WomenInTranslation
July 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Love seeing people preparing for the start of #WITMonth tomorrow! Here’s my stack of possibilities (well, a conservative selection of them) 📚 Spotting any favourites?
#bookSky #WomenInTranslation
#bookSky #WomenInTranslation
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August is Women in Translation Month, or #WITMonth, an annual celebration of women writers from around the world.
Here's the stack of books by women in translation that I read over the past 11 months since last August.
Titles, authors and translators in the comments.
Here's the stack of books by women in translation that I read over the past 11 months since last August.
Titles, authors and translators in the comments.
July 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
August is Women in Translation Month, or #WITMonth, an annual celebration of women writers from around the world.
Here's the stack of books by women in translation that I read over the past 11 months since last August.
Titles, authors and translators in the comments.
Here's the stack of books by women in translation that I read over the past 11 months since last August.
Titles, authors and translators in the comments.
Reposted by Alexandra Cristie
Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-))
Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey?
(Please share, too!)
Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey?
(Please share, too!)
Hello, I’m Olivia Wood and I am a Publishing MLitt student at Stirling University. For my dissertation, I am running a survey to examine the reader response to the use of people on book cover designs. The survey should take around 5 – 10 minutes to complete. Thank you!
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July 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-))
Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey?
(Please share, too!)
Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey?
(Please share, too!)
New on the blog: Libraries of Helsinki, photo diary
Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...
Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...
Photo diary: Libraries of Helsinki
This July, I went on holiday in the Baltic region, with one of our stops being Helsinki. I always visit bookish spaces while on holiday – local or chain bookshops, shops selling second hand a…
alexandracristie.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New on the blog: Libraries of Helsinki, photo diary
Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...
Because I'm back from holiday and the bookish spaces in Helsinki blew me away! #bookSky
alexandracristie.com/2025/07/30/p...