Trevor Berrett
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Books and Film | The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast with @bibliopaul.bsky.social | 2017 Best Translated Book Award Judge
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How many books did I read? Male/female authors? Best, worst, and most confusing title? Strange things that happened in the books I read?
You'll find it all in my 2025 reading stats! www.stuckinabook.com/2025-some-re...
You'll find it all in my 2025 reading stats! www.stuckinabook.com/2025-some-re...
2025: Some Reading Stats
It’s time for some reading stats! Always such a fun post to put together, and I love reading other people’s – do pop a link in the comments if you’ve done something similar.…
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January 3, 2026 at 1:46 PM
How many books did I read? Male/female authors? Best, worst, and most confusing title? Strange things that happened in the books I read?
You'll find it all in my 2025 reading stats! www.stuckinabook.com/2025-some-re...
You'll find it all in my 2025 reading stats! www.stuckinabook.com/2025-some-re...
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2025 was an uneven reading year, but its highlights were very high indeed. Thank you to everyone who read, commented, or chatted with me here about books, and to all the other bloggers who keep on posting. ❤️ 📚
Novel Readings 2025
2025 was a less chaotic year for me—literally and psychologically—than 2024. I wish I could say that this meant I read more and better, but instead both my memory and my records show that it was a …
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January 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
2025 was an uneven reading year, but its highlights were very high indeed. Thank you to everyone who read, commented, or chatted with me here about books, and to all the other bloggers who keep on posting. ❤️ 📚
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Published today by the University of Nebraska Press.
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
My first book.
Why should anyone read a book by an unknown writer about an unknown woman?
This video attempts to answer that question.
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
My first book.
Why should anyone read a book by an unknown writer about an unknown woman?
This video attempts to answer that question.
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Published today by the University of Nebraska Press.
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
My first book.
Why should anyone read a book by an unknown writer about an unknown woman?
This video attempts to answer that question.
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
My first book.
Why should anyone read a book by an unknown writer about an unknown woman?
This video attempts to answer that question.
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Shawn’s Most-Anticipated Releases: Winter 2026
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January 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Shawn’s Most-Anticipated Releases: Winter 2026
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Three friends, each very knowledgeable about the Criterion Collection, share their thoughts about their favorite releases by that label from the past year.
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Criterion Cast - Episode 218 - Criterion Collection Favorites of 2025
David Blakeslee, Aaron West, and Brad McDermott got together to keep our annual “favorites of the year” podcast tradition going for Year 16!
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January 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Three friends, each very knowledgeable about the Criterion Collection, share their thoughts about their favorite releases by that label from the past year.
criterioncast.com/podcast/crit...
criterioncast.com/podcast/crit...
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And my Favorite First-Time Watches of 2025:
December 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And my Favorite First-Time Watches of 2025:
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Criterion Cast – Episode 218 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2025 criterioncast.com/podcast/crit...
Criterion Cast - Episode 218 - Criterion Collection Favorites of 2025
David Blakeslee, Aaron West, and Brad McDermott got together to keep our annual “favorites of the year” podcast tradition going for Year 16!
criterioncast.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Criterion Cast – Episode 218 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2025 criterioncast.com/podcast/crit...
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LOLLY WILLOWES is celebrating its 100th birthday(!!) & this STW classic will be our first book for #NYRBWomen26, starting January 3! Details here: www.joiedevivre9.com/nyrbwomen26....
December 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
LOLLY WILLOWES is celebrating its 100th birthday(!!) & this STW classic will be our first book for #NYRBWomen26, starting January 3! Details here: www.joiedevivre9.com/nyrbwomen26....
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Y’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogues for the appendix. 1/2
December 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Y’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogues for the appendix. 1/2
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An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
Isiah Whitlock Jr. Dies: ‘The Wire’ Actor & Frequent Spike Lee Collaborator Was 71
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr., known for his roles in The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and a number of Spike Lee movies, passed away Dec. 30.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
Next year I’m going to make my way through more of the big @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social that have come out. This is my first! #NYRBBigBookYear
December 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Next year I’m going to make my way through more of the big @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social that have come out. This is my first! #NYRBBigBookYear
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My thoughts about a couple of wintery novellas by Susan Hill and Paul Gallico www.stuckinabook.com/two-wintery-...
Two wintery novellas
I hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas! Perhaps I should apologise for being quite an intermittent blogger for the past month or two, but those sorts of apologies always presuppose that any…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My thoughts about a couple of wintery novellas by Susan Hill and Paul Gallico www.stuckinabook.com/two-wintery-...
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Absolutely wonderful long poem, left me stunned this morning, one I will reread a few times. I’ve been reading Cavafy and other Greek poets this year, and Lewis captures perfectly the cadence of their verse and the tropes of their affective and historical explorations.
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Absolutely wonderful long poem, left me stunned this morning, one I will reread a few times. I’ve been reading Cavafy and other Greek poets this year, and Lewis captures perfectly the cadence of their verse and the tropes of their affective and historical explorations.
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The whole team here at One Bright Books sends our best wishes for a healthy and happy 2026. May it be filled with good reading, at least.
Thanks to all of you for listening to our little podcast. Means the world!
Thanks to all of you for listening to our little podcast. Means the world!
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The whole team here at One Bright Books sends our best wishes for a healthy and happy 2026. May it be filled with good reading, at least.
Thanks to all of you for listening to our little podcast. Means the world!
Thanks to all of you for listening to our little podcast. Means the world!
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In today’s print Observer, just in time for a leisurely post-Xmas read 👇
A literary universal solvent, or a novel that’s “so old-white-man, I can’t”?
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I wrote about the resurgence of interest in William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow, with thanks to David Nicholls, Richard Ford, @ericawgnr.bsky.social and more:
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I wrote about the resurgence of interest in William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow, with thanks to David Nicholls, Richard Ford, @ericawgnr.bsky.social and more:
William Maxwell’s great American novel | The Observer
So Long, See You Tomorrow has been tipped as the new Stoner – but how did an ‘experiment in empathy’ from 1980 go viral in 2025?
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December 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
In today’s print Observer, just in time for a leisurely post-Xmas read 👇
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A special edition of #NYRBWomen25 on my blog today in which I've written about (and ranked) twelve wonderful books I read during the year. A big thank you to @joiedevivre9.bsky.social for another fantastic selection of books.
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#NYRBWomen25 Special – Highlights of the Year
A ranking of twelve excellent books I read for the special "NYRBWomen25" reading project.
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December 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A special edition of #NYRBWomen25 on my blog today in which I've written about (and ranked) twelve wonderful books I read during the year. A big thank you to @joiedevivre9.bsky.social for another fantastic selection of books.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/n...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/n...
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So for anyone else looking to purchase, go to asterismbooks.com/product/pilg....
Pilgrimage | Asterism Books
The first U.S. edition in 50 years of Dorothy Richardson's challenging, insightful modernist classic, **Pilgrimage**. First published in 13 separate
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December 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
So for anyone else looking to purchase, go to asterismbooks.com/product/pilg....
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Translating Mathias Énard's MÉLANCOLIE DES CONFINS
December 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Translating Mathias Énard's MÉLANCOLIE DES CONFINS
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Every 5-6 months, I drive 30 miles west from Missoula to visit the legendary Montana Valley Book Store, open 365 days a year. Mostly I head for the basement, which is stuffed with mass market paperbacks, an increasingly rare breed. Here are a few from this week's trip. +
December 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Every 5-6 months, I drive 30 miles west from Missoula to visit the legendary Montana Valley Book Store, open 365 days a year. Mostly I head for the basement, which is stuffed with mass market paperbacks, an increasingly rare breed. Here are a few from this week's trip. +
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Keith Ridgway’s ‘Dooneen’ is an engrossing queer-in-all-ways thriller, an insurgent near-future haunting of our present, a vivid reimagining of Dublin, and a love and a loss story. Published @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social June 2026.
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Keith Ridgway’s ‘Dooneen’ is an engrossing queer-in-all-ways thriller, an insurgent near-future haunting of our present, a vivid reimagining of Dublin, and a love and a loss story. Published @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social June 2026.
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Two of my favorite books. Everyone should at least dip into them and see what they have to offer. For those who prefer to have great books read to them, there are superb audiobooks of both. Here's something about David Rintoul's reading of 'The Magic Mountain':
www.diehoren.com/2022/10/welc...
www.diehoren.com/2022/10/welc...
Welcome to The Magic Mountain!
A review of David Rintoul's audiobook of Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain'
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December 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Two of my favorite books. Everyone should at least dip into them and see what they have to offer. For those who prefer to have great books read to them, there are superb audiobooks of both. Here's something about David Rintoul's reading of 'The Magic Mountain':
www.diehoren.com/2022/10/welc...
www.diehoren.com/2022/10/welc...
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@mookse.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Settle in with us for a reflective conversation about the books that defined 2025 . . . and the anticipation of new reading adventures waiting in 2026!
December 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@mookse.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Settle in with us for a reflective conversation about the books that defined 2025 . . . and the anticipation of new reading adventures waiting in 2026!
I’ve been the only one up for a while on this quiet morning after Christmas. Brief Lives by Anita Brookner is keeping me company. Just finished Chapter 3, so it’s still early days, but already that unmistakable Brookner precision. She’s so, so good!
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’ve been the only one up for a while on this quiet morning after Christmas. Brief Lives by Anita Brookner is keeping me company. Just finished Chapter 3, so it’s still early days, but already that unmistakable Brookner precision. She’s so, so good!
It was a happy coincidence that I finished this within a few days of finishing In Search of Lost Time. Both novels are deeply concerned with time, intellect, love, illness, and the shadow of war, and both ask what it means to live attentively within a human life shaped by forces larger than oneself.
December 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
It was a happy coincidence that I finished this within a few days of finishing In Search of Lost Time. Both novels are deeply concerned with time, intellect, love, illness, and the shadow of war, and both ask what it means to live attentively within a human life shaped by forces larger than oneself.
On Christmas Day, @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Happy Christmas everyone! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...
Episode 122: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2025, Part II
On Christmas Day, we bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
On Christmas Day, @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Happy Christmas everyone! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...