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thought i would document what i read in a week. this was fun! and to be honest, as someone who doesn’t do wrapups and the like,i would even forget to write down the pages at the end of the day. i am thinking of doing this once a month? maybe? I don’t think I can keep up with documenting every week! these are approx number of pages because most of these were digital galleys of advanced reading copies. it was a great reading week, and hopefully there are more of such reading weeks this year. thank god for e-readers!
📝 the complex by karan mahajan | @vikingbooks
📝 a good person by kirsten king | @littlebrown
📝 a tender age by chang-rae lee | @riverheadbooks
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#bookishposts #whatireadthisweek #readinglog #ilovebooks , Bookstagram, Books 2026, The Brothers Karamazov, Russian Classics, Reading log , #booksandcoffee Diverse books, Asian books by @thebooksatchel

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excuse my typos in the photos!! that’s what happens when you type too fast after reading a good book! this short story collection titled my dear you by rachel khong was a great read! the stories are whimsical (not sure if that’s the right word), bordering between reality and fantasy, and talk about themes of race, identity, friendship and more. swipe to see some stories that I loved in the book. 2026 is off to a good start.
thank you to @penguinrandomhouse for an advanced reading copy. this collection releases in April, 2026.
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#bookreview #bookstagram #bookishflatlay #ilovereading Asian books Asian literature by @thebooksatchel

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9 months ago

best books of 2025! these are my favorites of the year, including an older title Everything Sad must be Untrue. find longer reviews on my Substack newsletter and the blog (link in bio).
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which one are you most excited to add to your TBR? leave me a book recommendation from your list please (it doesn’t have to be a 2025 release), thank you 📚☕️
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#booklist #bookrecommendations #bookstagram
[Best books of 2025, On the calculation of Volume, Julie Chan is dead, The Anthropologists, Mother Mary Comes to Me] by @thebooksatchel

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determined to try again and read this tome in 2026. my reason is not because it has been on my TBR forever or because i want to read classics or because i want to appreciate literature. i simply want to try and read a book that needs my attention, that i cannot multitask with something else like TV or phone, and i want to force my mind to not wander so much. reading this, with my shortened attention spans, is quite a task. i find my mind wandering too often, i would suddenly remember a meme, i would want to check that tab i had opened on the web browser, I would feel thirsty and so on. but slowly and steadily, i hope i will conquer my mind and this big book. i am just a few chapters into section 3.
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funny enough, i began reading brothers karamazov by dostoesky in 2025. I finished close to two sections and posted on social media. would you believe I did not read a single page after that. hope I didn’t jinx it again by posting now.
#classics #bookstagram #russianliterature #booksandcoffee #cozyvíbes
[Books 2025, Read Classics, Russian Literature] by @thebooksatchel

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i’ve been dipping into ‘the lonely city’ the last few months; sometimes it’s a late night ten minute read by the night lamp, sometimes it’s a half hour morning read with coffee, heavily distracted with my phone, sometimes it’s a pseudo intellectual move saying i’ll read a book when some TV show that doesn’t catch my interest is on, only to end up in a watch rot of the very same series, an unopened book on my lap and sleepy eyes. which is why it feels like i’ve been reading this book forever; understanding it in my own way. it’s a famous book, so there’s no dearth of reviews online, but i feel no compulsion to go looking for thoughts of friends/readers whom i follow/anyone. i liked going into the read alone, sometimes neglecting that itch to google something written in the book, sometimes resorting to google (very tricky because you do not even realize how your distracted mind leads you to social media and you are left with unread pages and a cold coffee at the end of your free slot). i am not even half way through the book; but i love this ritual of dipping in and out; reading even though i know i would not finish this before year end; reading with no plans to talk about the book on social media or write about it. in a way it’s just me, the city, my loneliness, and a book that tries to make sense of loneliness. it feels strangely liberating. here are some (unaesthetic) photos simply because instagram needs photos to say a few words.
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#bookstagram #bookstoread #booksandcoffee☕️ #coffeeathome #homecafe #olivialaing #lonelinessthoughts✨
[Lonely City, Olivia Laing, Bookstagram, Books to read, Non fiction, Cities, Coffee] by @thebooksatchel

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10 months ago

December calls for red books and endless hot cups of coffee. I love that the new novella Love Divine by the fantastic Ysenda Maxtone Graham is a bright red!! I suspect it is going to be a cozy read which are great this time of the year. Call me shallow, but I am LOVING the feel of the book in my hands. Sigh! Precious! I was really drawn by the description that “it (the book) may well unleash your inner Barbara Pym – but it comes with a decidedly contemporary twist.” (wow!!). As someone who enjoys Barbara Pym novels and also adored Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s boarding school books, I am thrilled to be reading Love Divine.
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❓What are you reading this month? Swipe to see the most delicious sweet treat accompanying my read. Thanks to @foxedquarterly for sending this beautiful read my way.
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#bookstagram #bookstoread #booksandcoffee #coffeeathome #bookflatlay
[Books, Bookstagram, Foxed Quarterly, Indie publishers, Winter reading, Holiday reading] by @thebooksatchel

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10 months ago

some quick reviews for my recent reads:
💚Maggie; or a man and a woman walk into a bar by Katie Yee was a quick read inspite of tackling big themes of a broken marriage, infidelity, and tumour diagnosis. The protagonist made me think with her detached way of dealing with so many problems on her plate.
🔪I had so much fun with Holly Jackson’s Not Quite Dead Yet, about a twenty something woman trying to solve her murder before she meets her inevitable death. Lots of twists; the red herrings leave you guessing. The book reads like a YA mystery.
🍊A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar took me by surprise because it’s incredibly readable and very engaging. You feel so much for the characters. It’s set in a future Kolkata, wrecked by climate change and food scarcity. There’s corruption, humanity and the near impossible dream to leave for a better reality. The ending broke my heart.
🛵I Deliver Parcels for a Living by Hu Anyan, transl by Jack Hargreaves is a thought provoking memoir of a gig worker in China, told with dead pan humor. It is quite an eye opener about the perils of the capitalist system and how gig workers earn their living and a first person account makes it all the more an enlightening read.
📦She didn’t see it coming by Shari Lapena is what you call a popcorn thriller in every sense of the word. Twist-filled mystery about a woman missing from her apartment, with no record of her leaving the building.
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Are any of these on your TBR?
#books #bookstagram #bookrecommendations #bookandcoffee #ebooks #readeveryday #onmytable #bookflatlay
[Books 2025, Book review, Bookish post, Bookstagram] by @thebooksatchel

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when i started reading, i wondered whether i would write about this memoir as a book review or an essay but i decided on neither. in the middle of 2025, mother mary came to me and i was under her spell. five stars,
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is this book on your reading list?
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#bookstagram #books2025 #whattoread #ılovebooks #bookishphoto #bookphotography #arundhatiroy #femmemarch
[mother Mary comes to me, Arundhati Roy, Bookstagram, book recommendations, south Asian books] by @thebooksatchel

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this book REALLY MESSES with your head. imagine a woman obsessed with her husband, to the point she observes every single move of his and comes up with wild theories! I absolutely enjoyed my husband by maud ventura, translated from french by emma ramadan. and that’s one of the two books (the other is a fast paced read into the mind of a rising celebrity) i wrote about in the newsletter for women in translation month. swipe for snippets and read the whole thing on reshsusan.substack.com
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#bookrecommendations #bookstagram #femmemarch #womenintranslationmonth
(Women in translation, books to read in 2025) by @thebooksatchel

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Have you picked a translated book this month?
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scattered all over the earth is a post apocalyptic novel about a near future situation where boundaries between countries have dissolved. some countries no longer exist. the protagonist has lived in three countries and invented a new home made language (pan-Scandinavian) and teaches immigrant kids at denmark this language. written by yoko tawada and translated by margaret mitsutani.
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book sent by @theboxwalla x @ndpublishing
#womenintranslation #femmemarch #summervibes☀️ #ilovebooks #bookstagram
[Reading outside, Women in Translation, Japanese books, Summer reading, Dystopian books] by @thebooksatchel

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hello it is august which means it is women in translation month. which means if you are looking for a new release to add to your reading list, i’ve got you! swipe for translated book titles; find the complete list on thebooksatchel website.
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did any book in this list catch your eye? What book by #womenintranslation are you planning to read in 2025? If there’s a book in the list that I need to prioritize onto my reading list, let me know 🎉.
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☕️ (currently reading : I am two stories into Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. it’s the winner of the the international @thebookerprizes this year).
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- please share the list 💐😘
#booklist #bookstagrammer #bookrecommendations #translatedbooks
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[women in translation, book list, books by women in translation 2025, books to read now, books 2025] by @thebooksatchel

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i am not usually picking up books strictly based on the season. but some books definitely read better in a particular season, right? a cosy magical read during winter, or even a bleak thriller. cosy vs horror vs gothic in autumn. one book that reads better in summer is my brilliant friend by elena ferrante. I’ve read it many times. i often say it isn’t a favorite read but how do you explain reading it again and again? maybe I love book 2 in the Neapolitan quartet the most.
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do you have a book in mind that reads better in summer?
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#bookstagram #bookandcoffee #cozybookstagram #ilovereading #womenintranslation #femmemarch
[books, coffee at home, Elena Ferrante, my brilliant friend, women in translation] by @thebooksatchel

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