Mel
@nichollsm86.bsky.social
I post about queer and translated fiction, small press, manga, and pretty books 📚✨
from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver
from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972), tr. by William Weaver
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1972), tr. by William Weaver
started reading today 📚
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
started reading today 📚
new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚
love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
love this book mail from @twolinespress.com
I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚
books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨
perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚
some more upcoming books in English translation
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
some more upcoming books in English translation
upcoming books in English translation I found online
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
upcoming books in English translation I found online
from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚
Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨
library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚
the illustration on the cover is Il Lampione (1926) by Dino Buzzati.
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
the illustration on the cover is Il Lampione (1926) by Dino Buzzati.
two stories from Restless Nights Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, tr. Lawrence Venuti. These stories are fantastic, the absurd mixed with the realism of post-WWII life and rise of technology. My first time reading his fiction, I also enjoyed the graphic novel Poem Strip.
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
two stories from Restless Nights Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, tr. Lawrence Venuti. These stories are fantastic, the absurd mixed with the realism of post-WWII life and rise of technology. My first time reading his fiction, I also enjoyed the graphic novel Poem Strip.
first time reading Yuri Herrera, holy sh!t I want to devour his other translated books
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
first time reading Yuri Herrera, holy sh!t I want to devour his other translated books
list of Vintage Aventura I found in the back of Puig.
October 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
list of Vintage Aventura I found in the back of Puig.
I found these three at Idle Hands Books on instagram, part of publisher Vintage’s line of translated fiction Aventura in the ‘80’s. The others I have, including the first two I ever found when I really started to read translated fiction.
October 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I found these three at Idle Hands Books on instagram, part of publisher Vintage’s line of translated fiction Aventura in the ‘80’s. The others I have, including the first two I ever found when I really started to read translated fiction.
book mail from OldBookSource at Etsy, such a good selection 📚
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
book mail from OldBookSource at Etsy, such a good selection 📚
book mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
book mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
new releases from @deepvellum.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social 📚✨
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
new releases from @deepvellum.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social 📚✨
some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨