Well done Sally Rooney who reserved her rights of translation for the book she wrote...

She is a supporter of Palestine, and she didn't allow her book to be translated into Hebrew, because....

She explained her decision as an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people “in their struggle for freedom, justice and equality”.

So because of this, she's getting a lot of stick, but in all fairness, if you authored a book it's your right to choose whether to translate it or use as toilet paper or firewood or whatever...

I don't know the name or topic of her book lol ...

But I think I'll support her by buying the book

Her book is called Beautiful World, Where Are You.

I was just reading about this earlier today.

It is a great gesture!
But whether or not you have a say in that as an author depends on the contract you have with your publisher.
And I'm guesstimating what's in there, and your influence on it, in turn depends on how famous you are. I think someone like J.K. Rowlings and Stephen King can pretty much decide what they want as their books sell like hot cakes.

Nevertheless, a great gesture!

A beautiful world...

Thank you, I did a search and came up with 4 paperbacks listed, that was one if them...


I'm in the kitchen
Where are you?

As a child at school and early adult life, I used to love reading. My favourite author was Michener... Now I mostly read pickchures

Writers are awesome aren't they? I mean how do they come up with these fantastic stories which are so good that they get made into a movie...

And even though some movies are good, they still fall short of the original written version...


On a different note, talking of cakes...
I like hot cakes I like cold cakes and sammiches too