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Elie
@eliedgo.bsky.social
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Wife. Mum. Worker bee. Reads a lot. #readingtheworld. Wannabe writer/translator. Cats. Tea. Music. Owner of a frankly unnecessary amount of hair. She/her.
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Upcoming reads… #tbr #nowreading #readingsoon
A stack of books on a bookshelf including: Muriel Spark - Curriculum Vitae Isabella Hammad - Recognising the Stranger Arthur Koestler - Arrival and Departure Wole Soyinka - The Interpreters Ebba Witt-Brattström - Love/War (translated by Kate Lambert) Renato Cisneros - You Shall Leave Your Land (translated by Fionn Petch) Gabriel Garciá Márquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch (translated by Gregory Rabassa) Arthur Koestler - Darkness At Noon (translated by Daphne Hardy) Isabella Hammad - Enter Ghost Aristotle - The Politics (translated by A.T. Sinclair) Kamila Shamsie - Best of Friends Wole Soyinka - Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The best post day 🥰🥰🥰
A stack of books published by Charco Press, from the top: An Infinite Sadness by Antonio Xerxenesky (tr. Daniel Hahn) Restoration by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones and Robin Myers) On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia (tr. Padma Viswanathan) Chilco by Daniela Catrileo (tr. Jacob Edelstein) The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney) La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today edited by Carolina Orloff The World We Saw Burning by Renato Cisneros (tr. Fionn Petch) Cautery by Lucía Lijtmaer (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy) The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy (tr. Frank Wynne) Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale (tr. Sean Manning X Is Where I Am by Sara Torres (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy) Apparitions by Margo Glantz (tr. Ellen Jones)
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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197/197 #readingtheworld #endofanera
A screenshot of the final page of A Providence of War by Joshua Taumoefolau, including the words ‘The End’, marking the end of my reading the world project.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ONE COUNTRY TO GO! #readingtheworld #tonga
A screenshot of the title page of A Providence of War by Joshua Taumoefolau, my #readingtheworld pick for Tonga
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Two countries to go! #vaticancity #readingtheworld
The front cover of Shroud of Secrecy: the story of corruption within the Vatican by “The Millenari”, translated from the Italian by Ian Martin.
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Three countries to go! #seychelles #readingtheworld
The front cover of Voices: Short stories from the Seychelles islands, edited by Glynn Burridge
October 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Four countries to go! #stvincentandthegrenadines #readingtheworld
Screenshot of the cover of The Moon is Following Me by Cecil Browne, from St Vincent and the Grenadines
October 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Five countries to go! #sanmarino #readingtheworld
A screenshot of the scanned cover page of The Republic of San Marino by Charles de Bruc, translated from the French by William Warren Tucker.
October 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Six countries to go! #readingtheworld #palau
A copy of Aibebelau: A collection of Palauan Legends
September 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The end is in sight… seven countries to go! #readingtheworld #solomonislands
A freshly-arrived copy of Is Anyone Out There? by Julian Maka’a from the Solomon Islands, sitting on top of the cardboard packaging it arrived in.
September 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A stack of possibilities for #WITmonth 2025!
A stack of books including Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (translated by Deepa Bhasthi), All Yours by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Miranda France), Time of the Flies by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle), Love by Hanne Ørstavik (translated by Martin Aitken), Europa28 edited by Sophie Hughes and Sarah Cleave, Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez (translated by Julia Sanches), A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (translated by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz), On A Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer (translated by Lucy Scott), Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Michael Hofmann), Love/War by Ebba Witt-Brattström (translated by Kate Lambert), and Mr. Distinctive by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Joanna Concejo)
August 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Been a while since I posted an #upcomingreads shot! #nowreading #readingsoon #tbr
Photo of a pile of books I'm planning to read imminently (or have already started) including First Love by Ivan Turgenev, História de uma Gaivota e do Gato que a Ensinou a Voar by Luis Sepúlveda, Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett, Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease all by Chinua Achebe, Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Barnes, The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin and The Fortune Man by Nadifa Mohamed.
April 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Sooooooo much food for thought in this one already. Can’t wait to discuss at @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social on Monday!
A copy of Violent Phenomena: 21 essays on translation, edited by Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang and published by Tilted Axis Press.
February 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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HELP: Can anyone #readingtheworld help me to source a copy of this book? I can't find it anywhere. I will buy it, I will borrow it, treat it well and send it back, I'm happy to read it in e-format if available. Please RT! @annmorgan.bsky.social @georgiarybanks.bsky.social @eponymist.bsky.social
Image of the front cover of the book 'Stories from Nauru', edited by Bem Bam Solomon
January 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Next #readtheworld book arrived today! #readingtheworld #tuvalu
A copy of "Tuvalu: A History" by multiple Tuvalan authors.
January 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Christmas book haul 🥰🥰🥰 Merry Christmas to all celebrating!
A pile of books received for Christmas - Intermezzo and Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney, an anthology of short stories called Reverse Engineering, Grandma Non-Oui by Lidija Dimkovska (translated by Christina E. Kramer), The Villain’s Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila (translated by Roland Glasser), Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, Orange World by Karen Russell, and a cat-themed puzzle book called Meowdle.
December 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Eeeeeeeee my book from Kiribati has arrived! Alas, Thor doesn’t seem quite so excited. #readingtheworld #fifteencountriestogo
A copy of Waa In Storms by Teweiariki Teaero, a poet from Kiribati, and a silver tabby cat called Thor who appears less than impressed.
November 18, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Another chill evening in #WITmonth. I’m about halfway through and really enjoying it!
A glass of port and a copy of Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mari Polizzitti and published by Daunt Books, on a bath shelf.
August 25, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Starting this little beauty today just as soon as the little one is down for his nap! #nowreading
A copy of the book The Remains by Margo Glantz, translated by Ellen Jones and published by Charco Press.
August 24, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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This is an absolute tour de force and everyone should read it. Incredibly intense as you’d expect given the subject matter, and her prose is just… wow.
Aftermath by Preti Taneja published in the UK by And Other Stories.
November 26, 2023 at 8:28 PM
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Birthday haul 🥰🥰🥰 My friends and family are the best!
A pile of books received for my birthday. Top to bottom: Replace Me by Amber Husain, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov (translated by George Bird), The Parisian by Isabella Hammad, Look At Me by Anita Brookner, Outline by Rachel Cusk, Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton, To Write As If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno and The Fawn by Magda Szabó (translated by Len Rix)
November 12, 2023 at 1:21 PM
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Charco post = best post
A pile of books published by Charco Press that arrived in the post today
November 10, 2023 at 11:37 AM
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And now that bloody Ulysses is out of the way… look at this pile of beauties I got lined up 😍😍😍
A stack of books I’m intending to read soon including Aftermath by Preti Taneja, Lote by Shola von Reinhold, two chapbooks from the Yeoyu series published by Strangers Press, Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy, Belladonna by Dasa Drndic (translated by Celia Hawkesworth), Scintillas: New Maltese Writing 1, I, Tituba by Maryse Conde (translated by Richard Philcox) and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome.
October 26, 2023 at 9:00 PM
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Well this isn’t terrifying at all… #writinglife #beingbrave
A voting sheet for the Sheffield Novel Slam 2023 with a list of competitors including me.
October 13, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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Okay pals, I’ve got a week off work, and I’m going in…
Ulysses, the annotated student editon, by James Joyce.
September 25, 2023 at 2:42 PM