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Written by Taylor Drew on 2025-01-14 at 12:23

Now that I also have an account on Bookwyrm, I'm not exactly sure what to do with posts like this since posting original commentary across three or four different sites is really too much, but while I mull over that issue, I just have to point out that I finished the most amazing book just now.

Time of the Flies by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle) was supposed to be the last book in my #TranslatedLitChallenge for 2024, but through all the chaos of going to Canada I didn't actually have the opportunity to read it--which meant that it became the perfect book for January's prompt this year (a book you meant to read the previous year).

What an absolutely stunning piece of feminist fiction from Argentina. The shifting perspectives really worked in building up tension throughout the story and the footnotes (presumably of the original in Spanish) were an extra fun touch that made the story not only incredibly thought-provoking and enjoyable, but educational as well. I really loved it!

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Written by EllenInEdmonton :mstdnca: on 2025-01-14 at 17:07

@mollymay5000

That multiple-platform thing is a real issue! But it's nice that there's space for more of a dialogue here about whatever we read, watch, hear, experience!

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Written by Taylor Drew on 2025-01-14 at 22:30

@EllenInEdmonton It does help that here there simply more people who are likely to see the post! And I use my account here a bit differently than I do on bsky, so double posting is only really limited to bookish kind of stuff, since it's relevant to my account there as well.

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Written by Reading Recluse on 2025-01-14 at 18:45

@mollymay5000 I'm of course totally unbiased when I say that Masto is a great place to keep posting book stuff. :neko_glasses3:

This looks great. I think I've never read a disappointing book from Charco Press so far.

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Written by Taylor Drew on 2025-01-14 at 22:31

@reading_recluse You definitely have a very successful time of it haha

And I've read two books from Charco that I didn't care for, but one may have just been timing and poor selection on my part. A lot of the other stuff that interests me I haven't read yet simply because the exchange rate is so bad that I can't afford to buy the books 🤣

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