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Emma
@bookaround.bsky.social
🇪🇺 🇨🇵 French Book lover and Romain Gary fan.
I blog in English at www.bookaroundthecorner.com
I read a lot of American Lit and Nature Writing.
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Marie Munkara's fiction is scintillating, I keep hoping for more, so I'm not sure why I took so long to get to this memoir
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Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea, Marie Munkara
My family don’t even bat an eyelid when I arrive back on Bathurst Island and on their doorstep with my belongings
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February 3, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Check out this event hosted by Karen @kaggsy59.bsky.social
We need indie publishers to ensure that a good diversity of literary voices are heard.
Launching Reading Independent Publishers Month 2026 – with a pile of possibilities! #readindies
When I decided in January that I would continue hosting Reading Independent Publishers month, my first instinct was of course to make a pile of possible reads. I mean, what’s more fun than di…
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February 1, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Theatre : War Does Not Have a Woman’s Face, a stage version of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich – what an evening!

Last night at the theatre, we saw a stage version of Svetlana Alexievich’s book, The Unwomanly Face of War (1983). Here’s the blurb of the book: This book is a…
Theatre : War Does Not Have a Woman’s Face, a stage version of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich – what an evening!
Last night at the theatre, we saw a stage version of Svetlana Alexievich’s book, The Unwomanly Face of War (1983). Here’s the blurb of the book: This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century.
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February 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Night at the theatre
January 31, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Yay, so happy about this! Watch this space and prepare by reading the Romanian authors we've published at @corylusbooks.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 11:14 AM
In Paris today. Second hand book haul 🤩🤩
January 30, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Two very different British novellas by David Lodge and Agnes Owens

Home Truths by David Lodge (1999) French title : Les quatre vérités. Translated by Suzanne V. Mayoux. Bad Attitude by Agnes Owens (2003) Not available in French. I have read several David Lodge who was very popular in France. The…
Two very different British novellas by David Lodge and Agnes Owens
Home Truths by David Lodge (1999) French title : Les quatre vérités. Translated by Suzanne V. Mayoux. Bad Attitude by Agnes Owens (2003) Not available in French. I have read several David Lodge who was very popular in France. The Campus Trilogy, The British Museum Is Falling Down, How Far Can You Go? and Deaf Sentence…
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January 26, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Can someone tell Goodreads to check out the French reading app Babelio and see how much better a reading app can be? There are so many interesting features on Babelio that are missing on Goodreads.
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Reading plans for 2026: fun, knowledge and book buddies

Reading Plans ! January, brand new year, brand new reading plans. I’m always like a kid in a candy store when I’m in front of bookshelves. I want to read all the books at once but I can’t. So I’m making plans to read books from the TBR, to…
Reading plans for 2026: fun, knowledge and book buddies
Reading Plans ! January, brand new year, brand new reading plans. I’m always like a kid in a candy store when I’m in front of bookshelves. I want to read all the books at once but I can’t. So I’m making plans to read books from the TBR, to share books with friends and family, to focus on my own wishes and mix my reading plans with blogging events as much as I can.
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January 18, 2026 at 11:17 AM
"Avant qu'ce monde devienne un grand cimetière
Faut profiter un peu du vent qu'on a dans l'dos"
Renaud - Morgane de toi.

Alors, bon vent à tous!
January 16, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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Special introductory offer on Kobo for first book in a trilogy: #BlackStorms by @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social set in Barcelona, #Broken by Jon Atli Jonasson set in Reykjavik
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Black Storms ebook by Teresa Solana - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Black Storms" by Teresa Solana available from Rakuten Kobo. A country that doesn't acknowledge its past is destined to repeat its mistakes. Why murder a sick old man nearing retire...
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January 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
One Minus One by Ruth Doan Macdougall – an excellent novella set in New Hampshire.

One Minus One by Ruth Doan Macdougall. (1971) Not available in French. I discovered One Minus One by Ruth Doan Macdougall via Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust and her rediscoveries. That’s how I also read The Girls From the…
One Minus One by Ruth Doan Macdougall – an excellent novella set in New Hampshire.
One Minus One by Ruth Doan Macdougall. (1971) Not available in French. I discovered One Minus One by Ruth Doan Macdougall via Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust and her rediscoveries. That’s how I also read The Girls From the Five Great Valleys by Elizabeth Savage and The Last Night at the Ritz also by Elizabeth Savage. (both recommended) One Minus One…
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January 11, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Fascinating post about reading Proust:

On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
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On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
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January 3, 2026 at 9:17 PM
@madamebibi.bsky.social Many thanks for sharing my billets here.
January 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM
“I suppose we don't know much except from the books we have read, but at least we want to live.” (Barbara Comyns, A Touch of Mistletoe) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2026/01/03/i...
“I suppose we don’t know much except from the books we have read, but at least we want to live.” (Barbara Comyns, A Touch of Mistletoe)
I’d planned to read Barbara Comyns’ A Touch of Mistletoe (1967) in December for obvious reasons, but I fell behind with my plans as always. Despite the title it’s not a Christmas book at all, and i…
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January 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Sunlight after the storm: view from my living room in Ghineh, #Lebanon. #photography #landscape
January 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Just wrote about my reading adventures this year. You can find it here 😊

Happy New Year 2026 😊 Hope it is filled with love, joy, beauty, and light 😊

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2025 – My Year of Reading
I started my 2025 slowly. I didn’t read for most of January. I was busy with cleaning the house and with other house work. I didn’t even go to the book fair. But towards the end of Janu…
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December 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM