August 2026 Wrap-Up – Women in Translation Month

August saw me embarking on the traditional Women in Translation Month reading, and an enjoyable month it was, too. I travelled far and wide thanks to all the various writers and translators, and in the end, I managed to come up with nine posts, just about meeting my pre-event goal. If you want to know more about those nine posts, they’ll be linked below, but before dessert, you have to eat the meat and veggies – here’s a healthy helping of stats ***** Total Books Read: 10 Year-to-Date: 82 New: 8 Rereads: 2 From the Shelves: 6 Review Copies: 3 From the Library: 1 Novels: 5 Novellas: 0 Short Stories: 3 Non-Fiction: 1 Various: 1 Non-English Language: 10 (3 Japanese, 2 Spanish, German, Russian, Hungarian, French, Korean) In Original Language: 2 (French, German) The Tale of Genji – Chapter by Chapter Come back next month ***** Books Reviewed in August were: 1) Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan 2) The Story of a Single Woman by Chiyo Uno 3) Ich freue mich, dass ich geboren bin (You Would…