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My mother is a literary translator Turkish to Dutch — among other work she was the first Dutch translator of Orhan Pamuk. When this book by Ihsan Oktay Anar came out 30 years ago, she was determined to see it translated. She translated most before even finding a publisher, as a labour of love. I was the first reader of her draft translation. As she had previously with Orhan Pamuk (that was long before his Nobel prize, so there was no reason for a Dutch publisher to know who Pamuk was, let alone be interested to take the risk), she eventually also found a publisher willing to take Ihsan Oktay Anar on, and the book is now published, and published beautifully.

Fun fact: it is published by the same publisher that trusted her recommendation of Pamuk (though that title has since been adopted by …

First & foremost: if you love Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood series, you're going to love this.

Read OVERGROWTH by Mira Grant if you love alien invasions, questioning what it means to be human, compulsions, transformations, road trips, outsiders, finding your people, stories that mess with your head, making choices, T4T love, cultural literacy, botany, inevitabilities & the color green

The book cover of OVERGROWTH by Mira Grant.

I've been obsessed with the book community on Pagebound and sat down recently to write up some of the reasons why. spoilers: they are anti-ai! it prioritizes conversations about books over stats! everyone on it is extremely nice!

https://incorporealbard.online/2025/11/why-you-should-check-out-pagebound/

3 Fantasy Things I love
Maps which do not say all
Gods who act like people and people who act like Gods.
Divine secrets.
Kind of your things?
You're at the right place.

3 Fantasy Things I love Maps which do not say all Gods who act like people and people who act like Gods. Divine secrets. Kind of your things? You're at the right place.

"It was only at moments like that that the Count longed for the efficiency of computers, which could digest a name...and tell the whole story with photos included. Otherwise, his cybernetic inadequacies made him think of those machines as an aberration of human intelligence, which had perhaps created in them one of the monsters of its own self destruction."
-Havana Black by Leonardo Padura, translated by Peter Bush

Book cover for Havana Black by Leonardo Padura featuring a beach-side sidewalk with silhouette figures and a cloudy sky

two things I love about the locked tomb:

(1) each book in the series (so far) significantly expands the setting, which is a pretty impressive feat of world building (2) Tamsyn Muir loves a story where the POV character has no idea what's going on

these two things add up to giving some of that first-book goodness even in the sequels which I really love.

i also think TM takes an adversarial relationship with their readers which I am a big proponent of. confusion and uncertainty is a valid emotion lmao