Ratih Dwi Astuti
@erdeaka.bsky.social
book blogger || ENG-ID translator || contemporary and translated fiction enthusiast
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I usually don't like crime fiction whose writing is too flowery to the point that it seems only for effect but damn Tana French is so good.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I usually don't like crime fiction whose writing is too flowery to the point that it seems only for effect but damn Tana French is so good.
If a book is a hell, this is it.
4.75/5 ⭐
4.75/5 ⭐
Malam Seribu Jahanam by Intan Paramaditha is, just like its English title will be, one hell of a book. Social/class issue, gender issue, religious issue all in one, fragmented story that will blow you up. Coming soon in English translation from Europa Edition.
#booksky #litfic #IndonesianLiterature
#booksky #litfic #IndonesianLiterature
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If a book is a hell, this is it.
4.75/5 ⭐
4.75/5 ⭐
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The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction is ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)’ by Rabih Alameddine. #NBAwards
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction is ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)’ by Rabih Alameddine. #NBAwards
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The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
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The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature is ‘We Are Green and Trembling’ by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from the Spanish Robin Myers. #NBAwards
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature is ‘We Are Green and Trembling’ by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from the Spanish Robin Myers. #NBAwards
Malam Seribu Jahanam by Intan Paramaditha is, just like its English title will be, one hell of a book. Social/class issue, gender issue, religious issue all in one, fragmented story that will blow you up. Coming soon in English translation from Europa Edition.
#booksky #litfic #IndonesianLiterature
#booksky #litfic #IndonesianLiterature
November 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Malam Seribu Jahanam by Intan Paramaditha is, just like its English title will be, one hell of a book. Social/class issue, gender issue, religious issue all in one, fragmented story that will blow you up. Coming soon in English translation from Europa Edition.
#booksky #litfic #IndonesianLiterature
#booksky #litfic #IndonesianLiterature
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
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November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
Plot twist:
I decided to resume reading Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind that I started (and DNF-ed) six years ago. Inspired by my retrying Home Remedies after failing in finishing (and loving) it months before.
I decided to resume reading Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind that I started (and DNF-ed) six years ago. Inspired by my retrying Home Remedies after failing in finishing (and loving) it months before.
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Plot twist:
I decided to resume reading Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind that I started (and DNF-ed) six years ago. Inspired by my retrying Home Remedies after failing in finishing (and loving) it months before.
I decided to resume reading Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind that I started (and DNF-ed) six years ago. Inspired by my retrying Home Remedies after failing in finishing (and loving) it months before.
Now thinking about:
1. Rereading Pride and Prejudice
2. Restarting The Burgess Boys
Or...
3. Starting Your Utopia
🤔
1. Rereading Pride and Prejudice
2. Restarting The Burgess Boys
Or...
3. Starting Your Utopia
🤔
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Now thinking about:
1. Rereading Pride and Prejudice
2. Restarting The Burgess Boys
Or...
3. Starting Your Utopia
🤔
1. Rereading Pride and Prejudice
2. Restarting The Burgess Boys
Or...
3. Starting Your Utopia
🤔
Though it took me almost two months to finish it, I don't regret starting it again for the second time. It's truly fantastic.
4.5/5 ⭐.
#HomeRemedies #XuanJulianaWang
4.5/5 ⭐.
#HomeRemedies #XuanJulianaWang
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Though it took me almost two months to finish it, I don't regret starting it again for the second time. It's truly fantastic.
4.5/5 ⭐.
#HomeRemedies #XuanJulianaWang
4.5/5 ⭐.
#HomeRemedies #XuanJulianaWang
I just love the story "Fuerdai to the Max" so much I cannot NOT review it. So on this very last day of #ShortStorySeptember I posted a review of my most favorite from the collection Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I just love the story "Fuerdai to the Max" so much I cannot NOT review it. So on this very last day of #ShortStorySeptember I posted a review of my most favorite from the collection Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang.
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Halfway through this book and am loving it so far I just don't know if I have the energy to write a 800-words review of my most favorite one. The deadline is tomorrow 😞.
Dropped Xuan Juliana Wang's Home Remedies several months ago. Now wanna try and read it again for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social . Wish me luck I won't drop it again this time 🤞🏻.
September 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Halfway through this book and am loving it so far I just don't know if I have the energy to write a 800-words review of my most favorite one. The deadline is tomorrow 😞.
My current escapism is reading essays by women writers ✊🏻.
September 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
My current escapism is reading essays by women writers ✊🏻.
September 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Three short reviews of my recent reads are up on the blog now ✌🏻😉.
#books #bookreviews #booksky
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#books #bookreviews #booksky
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Short Reviews: Three Recent Reads
1. Educated – Tara Westover (4.5/5) Sometimes what makes a memoir a memoir is not how complete it is as a linear story―that is, from the earliest times to a certain period before the writer s…
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September 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Three short reviews of my recent reads are up on the blog now ✌🏻😉.
#books #bookreviews #booksky
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#books #bookreviews #booksky
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Dropped Xuan Juliana Wang's Home Remedies several months ago. Now wanna try and read it again for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social . Wish me luck I won't drop it again this time 🤞🏻.
September 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Dropped Xuan Juliana Wang's Home Remedies several months ago. Now wanna try and read it again for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social . Wish me luck I won't drop it again this time 🤞🏻.
Done Sawerigading Datang dari Laut and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, what fantastic reads. My short reviews will be up on the blog soon.
Some #currentreads:
- Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, I always liked Faisal Oddang's writing but maybe not this time 🤷🏻♀️.
- Kairos, finally back to this book after abandoning it for months!
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean, my very first time reading Didion.
#booksky
- Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, I always liked Faisal Oddang's writing but maybe not this time 🤷🏻♀️.
- Kairos, finally back to this book after abandoning it for months!
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean, my very first time reading Didion.
#booksky
September 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Done Sawerigading Datang dari Laut and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, what fantastic reads. My short reviews will be up on the blog soon.
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social
#IrishLiterature
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#IrishLiterature
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Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025) by Elaine Feeney
Back in 2023 Irish author Elaine Feeney’s novel How To Build a Boat (my review) was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. That was a bumper year for Irish…
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August 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social
#IrishLiterature
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#IrishLiterature
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social
#SriLankanLiterature
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#SriLankanLiterature
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize in 2022. It wasn’t on my radar, probably because it seemed to me like it was trying to be too ma…
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August 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, reviewed by @clairewords.bsky.social
#SriLankanLiterature
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#SriLankanLiterature
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We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025.
tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r
The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r
The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
tinyurl.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025.
tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r
The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r
The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
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July 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Just posted a new review on my blog. A brief (and hopefully compact) thought on Mochtar Lubis' Jalan Tak Ada Ujung (A Road with No End).
#IndonesianLiterature #bookreview #classics #books #booksky
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#IndonesianLiterature #bookreview #classics #books #booksky
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Jalan Tak Ada Ujung
Mochtar Lubis’ Jalan Tak Ada Ujung (or, A Road with No End in English translation) is a historical fiction set in 1946, a modern era in Indonesian history where the independence declaration the yea…
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July 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just posted a new review on my blog. A brief (and hopefully compact) thought on Mochtar Lubis' Jalan Tak Ada Ujung (A Road with No End).
#IndonesianLiterature #bookreview #classics #books #booksky
booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/j...
#IndonesianLiterature #bookreview #classics #books #booksky
booklypurple.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/j...
Some #currentreads:
- Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, I always liked Faisal Oddang's writing but maybe not this time 🤷🏻♀️.
- Kairos, finally back to this book after abandoning it for months!
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean, my very first time reading Didion.
#booksky
- Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, I always liked Faisal Oddang's writing but maybe not this time 🤷🏻♀️.
- Kairos, finally back to this book after abandoning it for months!
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean, my very first time reading Didion.
#booksky
July 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Some #currentreads:
- Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, I always liked Faisal Oddang's writing but maybe not this time 🤷🏻♀️.
- Kairos, finally back to this book after abandoning it for months!
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean, my very first time reading Didion.
#booksky
- Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, I always liked Faisal Oddang's writing but maybe not this time 🤷🏻♀️.
- Kairos, finally back to this book after abandoning it for months!
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean, my very first time reading Didion.
#booksky