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Hello everyone, it’s finally Friday! 😅 Hope your weeks have all gone well. It’s time for another book haul. Lesser Known Monsters has been on my wishlist for quite some time and I finally succumbed to its call 😂 Described as twelve unforgettable tales, the strange is made familiar and the familiar made strange. A girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. This collection blurs the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature. Abandon is my latest @tiltedaxisbooks buy in my quest to acquire them all. Translated by Arunava Sinha, this is a powerful novel about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises her five year old son has followed her, she struggles with her identity and responsibilities as a mother versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence required her to suppress her own dreams. Finally, look at that cover of The Melting! Translated by Kristen Gehrman, this book asks the question “what if you could take revenge on an entire village?” That’s all I need to know! I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #ohlookmorebooks #anotherbookhaul #lesserknownmonstersofthe21stcentury #kimfu #abandon #tiltedaxisbooks #readingbooksintranslation #sangeetabandyopadhyay #arunavasinha #themelting #lizespit #kristengehrman #bookobsesseď https://www.instagram.com/p/ClrUzP5Ld2F/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=