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Cathy

I am a freelance translator, literature lover, and language nerd based near the Baltic Sea. You can usually find me with a cup of tea, my latest read, and plenty of questions about language.

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    Book Review: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

    by Cathy May 21, 2025
    by Cathy May 21, 2025

    Written by Hwang Bo-Reum, translated by Shanna Tan Summary Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and bustling life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successfulโ€”but all she feels is drained. Haunted by an abandoned dream, …

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    Book Review: Pentimento Mori: An Art History Mystery

    by Cathy March 13, 2025
    by Cathy March 13, 2025

    Summary Renowned art historian Dr. Edna Silvera is not your typical detective. In fact, sheโ€™s not a detective at all. But when she stumbles across an apparently impossible medieval painting in the suddenly-deceased Nando Folliโ€™s junk shop, her curiosity lands …

  • Book ReviewsFictionLiterary Fiction

    Book Review: We Need No Wings

    by Cathy September 23, 2024
    by Cathy September 23, 2024

    We Need No Wings was a beautiful story, artistically narrated and sensitively told, it was a pleasure to read on my holidays this year. Find my full review below! Summary To be free, we must learn to fly. Teresa Sรกnchez …

  • Book ListsTranslated Lit

    3 Must-Read Books for Women in Translation Month 2024

    by Cathy August 16, 2024
    by Cathy August 16, 2024

    I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from sharing a post about Women in Translation month (see my WIT lists from 2020 and 2021), but I haven’t stopped reading books written and translated by women. Just in case you need …

  • Book ReviewsGeneral Non-FictionMemoir/Biography

    Review: Playing for Freedom by Zarifa Adiba

    by Cathy July 1, 2024
    by Cathy July 1, 2024

    Summary Passionate musician Zarifa Adiba grew up on the worn-torn streets of Kabul, Afghanistan at a time when the Talibanโ€™s influence was still very present in society. Zarifa has big dreams; she wants to play music and get an education. …

  • Book ReviewsFictionTranslated Lit

    Book Review: Summer Heat by Defne Suman

    by Cathy April 25, 2024
    by Cathy April 25, 2024

    ‘Every woman must be nourished by an inner reservoir of secrets…’ but when Melike starts to unravel hers, the consequences are devastating.

  • Book ReviewsHumorLiterary FictionSci-Fi/Fantasy

    Review: Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

    by Cathy March 22, 2024
    by Cathy March 22, 2024

    This book surprised me so much! I didn’t like one of the author’s other books but Masters of Death is one of my favourite books this year! The Summary Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. …

  • Book ReviewsMemoir/BiographyTranslated Lit

    Book Review: Motherland by Paula Ramรณn

    by Cathy November 27, 2023
    by Cathy November 27, 2023

    Synopsis Motherland is not a political book, but rather a poignant and sentimental search for oneโ€™s roots and for the answers to the often-asked questions: What defines us? Who are you in a new country? What truly matters? By the …

  • Book ReviewsFiction

    Review: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

    by Cathy April 14, 2023
    by Cathy April 14, 2023

    Unable to accept being dumped by her colleague, Takako quits her job and moves into the used bookstore owned by her uncle, Satoru, in Jinbocho. Despite her initial lack of interest in novels, Takako is slowly drawn into the world …

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    Book Review: Kafka in Tangier

    by Cathy March 21, 2023
    by Cathy March 21, 2023

    Summary Kafka in Tangier is a reinterpretation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, exploring themes of transformation, alienation, and power. At once the story of a family and a chilling portrait of a city, the novella follows Jawad Al-Idrisi, an overworked teacher with …

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