August 2017 – authortranslatorOlga

#Bookreview EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid (@mohsin_hamid) #ManBookerPrize A novel not for everybody that everybody should read #migration

Posted on August 30, 2017 by OlgaNunez 22 Comments

Hi all: I bring you my review of another one of the novels that have made it into the Man-Booker Longlist. Here is it. Exit West: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Mohsin Hamid Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and

Posted in Book review, Book reviews beliefs, Identity, Man-Booker Longlist, Middle East, migration, religion, utopia, war, Writing

#TuesdayBookBlog #RBRT BLOOD ROSE ANGEL by Liza Perrat (@LizaPerrat) The Black Death, midwifery and it was hard to be a woman in XIV century France. Highly recommended #Bookreview

Posted on August 29, 2017 by OlgaNunez 13 Comments

Hi all: Today I bring you a treat. This is a book by an author I discovered thanks to Rosie’s Book Review Team and I’ve become a big fan. Blood Rose Angel by Liza Perrat A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it––heretic, Devil’s servant, saint. Midwife Héloïse has always known that her bastard status

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Rosie's Book Review Team Black Death, Bone Angel, France, historical fiction, Middle Ages, midwifery, religion, series, superstition

#Bookreview #ManBooker2017 THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS by Arundhati Roy (@PenguinRHUK) A kaleidoscopic novel about India, gender, politics, class, society, and humanity, demanding of its readers but rewarding in the same measure

Posted on August 28, 2017 by OlgaNunez 8 Comments

Hi all: As you know, I’ve been trying to catch up on some of the novels that have made the Man Booker Longlist this year. My only criterion is that I had the novels waiting to be read already, and here comes another one (that I was very curious about because, although I’d always wanted

Posted in Book review, Book reviews cemetery, Hindi, India, intersex, Kashmir, Man Booker Longlist 2017, Pakistan, poetry, politics, postmodernism, transgender, Urdu

NEW #Audiobook ESCAPING PSYCHIATRY 2. THE CASE OF THE SWAPPED BODIES narrated by Kathy James. Come and take a peek!

Posted on August 27, 2017 by OlgaNunez 28 Comments

Hi all: I don’t normally blog on Sundays, but this being a long weekend (at least here in the UK) and with a few posts already programmed for next week (and a few more reviews making their way), I thought I might try. I haven’t been talking about my books much because… Well, marketing is

Posted in Audiobooks, Book launch, book promo audiobook, Escaping Psychiatry, Escaping Psychiatry 2. The case of the swapped bodies, free book, promotion, psychological thriller, sample, series

#Reseñadelibro El poder de la Sombra: Trilogía del Mal. Libro 2: La Huella de María José Moreno (@mjmoreno010) Recomendada a los lectores fascinados por los entresijos de la mente humana y por la maldad #Lecturarecomendada

Posted on August 22, 2017 by OlgaNunez

Hola a todos: Tengo que disculparme porque entre una cosa y otra no tengo muchas oportunidades de leer ni reseñar libros en español, pero por fin he encontrado un momento para comentar una novela que tenía pendiente hace tiempo. Valía la pena la espera, desde luego. El poder de la Sombra: Trilogía del Mal. Libro 2:

Posted in Reseñas de libros abuso, psicólogo, Psiquiatra, romance, serie, sueños, terapia, thriller psicológico

#TuesdayBookBlog #RBRT PAINTED BY Kirsten McKenzie (@Kiwimrsmac). Gothic psychological horror, with haunted house and ghosts for art and lovers of antiques. #Bookreview

Posted on August 22, 2017 by OlgaNunez 21 Comments

Hi all: Today I bring you a novel in one of my favourite genres. Thanks to Rosie Amber for her great review group where I keep discovering great books. PAINTED: A Horror Novel by Kirsten McKenzie If art can capture a soul, what happens when one of those souls escapes? When art appraiser Anita Cassatt is sent

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Rosie's Book Review Team, Rosie's Book Team Review antiques, Art, Book review, ghosts, Gothic, haunted house, Henry James, horror, paintings, The Turn of the Screw, Tuesday Book Blog

#Booklaunch MURDER AT THE BIJOU. THREE INGREDIENTS 1 by Teagan Geneviene (@teagangeneviene) A delicious new adventure for those who love recipes and historical fiction with a difference. #Iamreading

Posted on August 21, 2017 by OlgaNunez 13 Comments

Hi all: I have great news! One of my favourite authors and bloggers has just published her new book! Teagan Geneviene has the most amazing blog, where she writes serials including elements contributed by her readers. After much insistence, she has started to collect all this posts and is publishing these fantastic serials to the

Posted in Book launch, book promo 1920s, blog, Collaboration, historical fiction, pantser, recipes, review, Serial, Teagan Geneviene, writing sample

#Bookreview RESERVOIR 13 by Jon McGregor (@jon_mcgregor) A contemplative look at the life of a village for those who love a different kind of writing. #Iamreading

Posted on August 17, 2017 by OlgaNunez 16 Comments

Hi all: I am on a mission to try and check at least some of the books that have made it into the Man Booker Prize longlist this year, and here is one of them. Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor “A wonderful book. [Jon McGregor]’s an extraordinary writer, unlike anyone else.” ―Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on

Posted in Book review, Book reviews Britain, literary fiction, Man Booker Prize Longlist, missing girl, postmodern writing, village life

#Bookreview GIRL ON POINT by Cheryl Guerriero (@uncle_cher) A great novel about grief, revenge, and discovering that we are all more alike than we realise #YAnovel

Posted on August 16, 2017 by OlgaNunez 16 Comments

Hi all: Don’t worry. I haven’t accumulated tonnes and tonnes of book reviews while my friend and her family were visiting, but I don’t want to get behind, so I bring you another one today. This would definitely make a great movie. And the author is going places too. Girl on Point by Cheryl Guerriero “One of

Posted in Book review, Book reviews basketball, crime, gang culture, girl gang, going native, grief, Murder, revenge, YA

#TuesdayBookBlog #Bookreview THE BLEEDERS (DAEMONS OF LONDON Book 1) by Michaela Haze (@MichaelaHaze) For lovers of paranormal romance with dark touches and a subtext of mental illness

Posted on August 15, 2017 by OlgaNunez 8 Comments

Hi all: Today I bring you a book that is not in one of my usual genres. This time it wasn’t the book for me. The Bleeders (Daemons of London – Book 1) by Michaela Haze The Bleeders is a Psychological, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance. “This is one of the best books I have read in a

Posted in Book review, Book reviews blood, demon, grief, London, mental illness, paranormal, psychological, romance