#svetlana moran

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (142/365)

“[Y]ou’d best get moving on those seeds. They’re not going to count themselves.”

“They may,” Svetlana said.

Valentina considered that. “That’s true,” she conceded. “I don’t know everything about the secret life of seeds.”

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather #the secret life of seeds #the philosophy of counting

[vermiculated]

books 2017 so far

wow, tuv want to talk about why you haven’t kept a monthly book list? (because I am scared of my phone and also writing.) no. 

Reiffen's Choice - SC Butler

Flex- Ferrett Steinmetz

The Good Funeral - Thomas Long and Thomas Lynch

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley

The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie

The Invaders - Karolina Waclawiak

Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai

Adaptation - Malinda Lo

The Dream of Enlightenment - Anthony Gottlieb

Central Station - Lavie Tidhar

Why Did I Ever - Mary Robison (vg)

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor (vg) 

The Book of Tea - Kazuko Okakura

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

Unmentionable - Therese O'Neill

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua

IQ - Joe Ide

The Little Virtues - Natalia Ginzburg trans Dick Davis

The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch

Death's Door - Sandra Gilbert

Holy Anorexia - Rudolph Bell 

Hild - Nicola Griffith (vg)

Sum - David Eagleman

Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich trans Bela Shayevich

Everything is Teeth - Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner

Water Dogs - Lewis Robinson (vg)

Selection Day - Aravind Adiga 

The Wicked Boy - Kate Summerscale

Nicotine - Gregor Hens trans Jen Calleja

Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton

Audition -  Ryu Murakami trans Ralph McCarthy

A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman trans Jessica Cohen

Zakhor - Yosef Yerushalmi

Citizen - Claudia Rankine

Blitzed - Norman Ohler trans Shaun Whiteside

Exorcising Hitler - Frederick Taylor

Being A Beast - Charles Foster

The Open Fields - CS and CS Orwin 

Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

The Mistletoe Murder - PD James

The Radius of Us - Marie Marquardt

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Apex Book of World SF 2- Lavie Tidhar ed

Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst

Traitor to the Throne - Alwyn Hamilton

Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown

Pain - Javier Moscoso trans Sarah Thomas and Paul House 

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England - Olive Anderson

The Regional Office is Under Attack - Manuel Gonzalez

The Vanquished - Robert Gerwarth

There is No Good Card For This - Kelsey Crowe

Death, Religion and the Family in England - Ralph Houlbrooke

His Bloody Project - Graham McRae

Violence in Early Modern Europe - Julius R Ruff

Snowblind - Ragnar Jonasson trans Quentin Bates

Today Will Be Different - Maria Semple

Martin Luther - Lyndal Roper

The Young Richelieu - Elizabeth Marvick

History Is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Inheritance - Malinda Lo

Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli trans Simon Cornell and Erica Segre

Long Hidden - Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older

Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Monstress - Marjorie Liu 

This Close to Happy - Daphne Merkin 

The Gin Closet - Leslie Jamison

Bilgewater - Jane Gardam (vg)

Colonial Spirits - Steven Grasse

Fragrant Harbor - John Lanchester

A Cup of Rage - Raduan Nassar trans Stefan Tobler

A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot trans Linda Coverdale

A Long Finish - Michael Dibdin

Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu

Powers of Darkness - Bram Stoker trans Valdimar Asmundsson trans Hans Cornell de Roos

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

Huntress - Malinda Lo

The Night Battles - Carlo Ginzburg trans Anne and John Tedeschi

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih trans Denys Johnson-Davies

Life's Work - Willie Parker

The Mothers - Brit Bennett

We Are Okay - Nina LaCour

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones

Time Travel - James Gleick

Questions of Travel - William Morris, ed Lavinia Greenlaw

Words on the Move - John McWhorter

Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang

Teeth - Mary Otto

Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz

We The Animals - Justin Torres

Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders - Anna Wirz-Justice et al

Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood

English, August - Upmanyu Chatterjee

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie 

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

The Girl Before - JP Delaney

The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent

Half-Bad - Sally Green

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Mr. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Mrs. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis 

Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Plucked - Rebecca Herzing

The Outsiders - SE Hinton

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Mind Your Manors - Lucy Lethbridge

Blood in the Water - Heather Ann Thompson

Blood Rain - Michael Dibdin

The Dry - Jane Harper

History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund

See Under: Love - David Grossman trans Betsy Rosenberg

Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar

Sarong Party Girls - Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser

The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

God's Perfect Child - Caroline Fraser

The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore

Otherbound - Connie Duyvis

Chronotherapy - Michael Terman and Ian McMahan

Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson (vg)

Bright Air Black - David Vann 

Out - Natuso Kirino trans Stephen Snyder

The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Dirty Snow - George Simenon trans Marc Romano and Louise Varese

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

And Then You Die - Michael Dibdin 

Medusa - Michael Dibdin 

Saga - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al 

The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu trans Joel Martinsen

A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume

My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul

Two Women of London - Emma Tennant

Stoner - John Williams

The Crest on the Silver - Geoffrey Grigson

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Oranges - John McPhee

Shrinking Violets - Joe Moran 

The Invisibility Cloak - Ge Fei trans Caanan Morse

The Water Kingdom - Philip Ball

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, vol 1 - Arigon Starr, ed

The Happy Traveller - Jamie Kurtz

Century's End - Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin

Saga vol 2 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth

Back to Bologna - Michal Dibdin

End Games - Michael Dibdin 

What If? - Randall Munroe 

Taft 2012 - Jason Heller 

Saga vol 3 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

Gentlemen and Amazons - Cynthia Eller 

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

God's Philosophers - James Hannam

Ravished - Amanda Quick

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson

The Weapon Wizards - Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot

Death's End - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

Chemistry - Weike Wang (vg)

#books 2017 #as usual: i read some horrible stuff and some great stuff. mostly okay i would say. #'okay nonsense' #and other mottoes of this tumblr

[womenintranslation]

image of original column, courtesy of https://twitter.com/GemaNieto81/status/850398182928506880/photo/1

A FEW

Marta Sanz, or Sylvia Plath, or Mary Shelley, or Ingeborg Bachmann, or Virginia Woolf, or María Llopis, or Clara Janés, or Yolanda Castaño, or Caitlin Moran, or Virginie Despentes, or Amélie Nothomb, or Natalia Ginzburg, or Chika Sagawa, or Silvina Ocampo, or Gloria Fuertes, or Sara Mesa, or Ruth Llana, or Chantal Maillard, or Cristina Rivera Garza, or Maria Mercè Marçal, or Isla Correyero, or Emma Cline, or Anne Carson, or Yasmina Reza, or Lucy K. Shaw, or Safo, or Jenn Díaz, or JK Rowling, or Alice Munro, or Svetlana Alexievich, or Catalina Stanislav, or Carmen Laforet, or Lisa Dierbeck, or Angela Carter, or Alejandra Pizarnik, or Elena Medel, or Joyce Mansour, or Carson McCullers, or Elena Garro, or Iris Murdoch, or Joan Didion, or Simone de Beauvoir, or Belén Gopegui, or Jane Austen, or Sara Torres, or Montserrat Roig, or Elvira Lindo, or Anne Sexton, or Emilia Pardo Bazán, or Sharon Olds, or Emily Witt, or Milena Busquets, or Marie Darrieussecq, or Dorothy Parker, or María Sánchez, or Margaret Atwood, or Rosalía de Castro, or Isabel Escudero, or Luciana Peker, or Laura Fernández, or Forough Farrojhzad, or Emily Dickinson, or Gioconda Belli, or Carmen Martín Gaite, or Patti Smith, or Daniela Camacho, or Emily Berry, or Valeria Luiselli, or Ana María Matute, or Julianne Pachico, or Natalia Litvinova, or Elena Ferrante, or Fatena Al-Gurra, or Claudia Apablaza, or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, or Agatha Christie, or Dorothy M. Johnson, or Roxane Gay, or Lara Moreno, or Andrea Wulf, or Gabby Bess, or Amalia Bautista, or Delphine de Vigan, or Lucía Baskaran, or Mina Loy, or Ida Vitale, or Lola Nieto, or Alfonsina Storni, or Elvira Navarro, or Susan Sontag, or Diana di Prima, or Tálata Rodríguez, or Anaïs Nin, or Nina Yargekov, or Sara Herrera Peralta, or Donna Tartt, or Selva Almada, or Valérie Mréjen, or Lila Azam, or Tracy K. Smith . . . or whatever you want, say it. But when you talk about literature, quote a woman from time to time, ok? Thanks.

by Luna Miguel, translated from the original Spanish by Jeremy Spencer in Real Pants

#luna miguel #spanish literature #international literature #womenintranslation

[corsetsandridingcrops-blog]

Everyone should go follow Svetlana Moran and ask her questions! She's in cosplay RIGHT NOW. 

#svetlanamoran #svetlana moran #sebastian moran #fem!seb #fem!sebastian #gogogogo!

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (154/365)

“Tatiana,” Svetlana said. “Please stop altering our perceptions. We both know that you are incapable of physically doing this to the world.”

“Hush,” Tatiana said. “Let me enjoy my giant battle-house.”

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (101/365)

“Legends will be told of Svetlana Witherspoon,” she said, “who left her house, two nights in a row.”

- from Chapter Three: Evdeniya and the Thing That Should Not Be

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (113/365)

“I am … I am not the leaving-home kind of vampire,” Svetlana said.

“Oh,” Mariya said. “Do you have to be, ah, invited out?”

“No! No. That would be terrible.”

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather #svetlana witherspoon #mariya yatskaya

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (149/365)

Now where Tatiana walked, the people of Fortitude did not see her. From time to time she would stop to eat at their tables, or read a book from their libraries, or even drink directly from their veins. These things she did, and they did not know.

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (78/365)

“She isn’t wicked because she hates herself,” Valentina said. “You put up with it because you hate yourself. She’s wicked because she doesn’t think humans are people.”

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather #valentina actually has no idea why nicoleta is wicked #she's just being aggressively authoritative

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (90/365)

“How did you dig a basement here, anyway?”

“A witch did it,” Valentina handwaved.

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather #beach basements #witches

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (132/365)

“[Y]ou need only knock upon the wall of the storeroom and say, ‘One, one thousand, moon, one thousand, gold, ten thousand, nine.’ Instantly the seeds will become counted, …”

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather #math philosophy

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (54/365)

“Please don’t mind the mess.”

Mariya looked around. “What mess?”

Svetlana gave her a flat look.

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather

[jennamoran]

The Night-Bird’s Feather: Quote of the Day (18/365)

“Pfuh,” Valentina said, and rolled her eyes in disappointment. “If you are always this difficult to start a fight with it’s no wonder your family sent you to die here.”

- from Chapter Five: Svetlana and the Seal’s Skin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-birds-feather-jenna-katerin-moran/1141980740

#nightbirdsfeather