Radz Pandit
@radzpandit.bsky.social
Avid reader, book reviewer & amateur book photographer. I write about books on my blog Radhika’s Reading Retreat. Love art and travel too.
Website: https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
Also on: linktr.ee/radzpandit
Website: https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
Also on: linktr.ee/radzpandit
Hoping to read it this month🤞
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Hoping to read it this month🤞
It's great, I agree!
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's great, I agree!
It will be worth it!
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It will be worth it!
I loved it, one of my favourite books in 2023. I also wrote about it and my post since then has garnered very high views thanks to TikTok I think. It's wasn't so well known when I read it!
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I loved it, one of my favourite books in 2023. I also wrote about it and my post since then has garnered very high views thanks to TikTok I think. It's wasn't so well known when I read it!
I agree with this!
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I agree with this!
And FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK, the novel that introduced me to the magic of Alba de Céspedes, offering a glimpse into a woman's interior life, her desire to find her voice through her diary and yet keep it hidden. Translated by Ann Goldstein.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/f...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/f...
Forbidden Notebook – Alba de Céspedes (tr. Ann Goldstein)
Alba de Céspedes’s Forbidden Notebook has been garnering rave reviews of late and after reading it, I can say that the hype is totally justified. The novel is translated from Italian by Ann Goldste…
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
And FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK, the novel that introduced me to the magic of Alba de Céspedes, offering a glimpse into a woman's interior life, her desire to find her voice through her diary and yet keep it hidden. Translated by Ann Goldstein.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/f...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/f...
HER SIDE OF THE STORY was brilliant - an intense, ambitious and absorbing novel on womanhood, resistance and patriarchy. Translated by Jill Foulston.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/h...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/h...
Her Side of the Story – Alba de Céspedes (tr. Jill Foulston)
One of the highlights of my reading last year was Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, a stunning, multilayered novel of domestic dissatisfaction and awakening seen through the prism of a woman’…
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
HER SIDE OF THE STORY was brilliant - an intense, ambitious and absorbing novel on womanhood, resistance and patriarchy. Translated by Jill Foulston.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/h...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/h...
I loved The Wall, it's brilliant. The Loft is very good too.
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I loved The Wall, it's brilliant. The Loft is very good too.
Effingers by Gabriele Tergit, Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant, Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood.
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Effingers by Gabriele Tergit, Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant, Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood.
I'll definitely join for #NYRBWomen26! I like the changed format, one book per month is good.
November 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'll definitely join for #NYRBWomen26! I like the changed format, one book per month is good.