August is #WomenInTranslation month, #WITMonth, and I love a book stack. Here are the books I read by women writers translated into English between last August and this one. Titles, authors and translators follow in comments.

“Even if a new government wanted to rein in violent settlers, it would be difficult,” said Sari Bashi, the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. “Settlers have been given weapons and vehicles by the government, they’re emboldened." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/o...

Reader, I am here to inform you that there are no vineyards on Vineyard Grove, however there is in fact a depot. "Vineyard Grove, formerly Depot Approach."

Here's what the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists advises for pregnant women: Four immunizations are routinely recommended during pregnancy: Flu vaccine; Covid-19 shot; a tetanus, diptheria and pertussis (Tdap) shot; and RSV vaccine.

Why yes I did take my 15-year-old daughter to a Harry Styles concert in Amsterdam and yes, it was fantastic.

What a comfy soft red blanket, it's MINE, mine I say.

Hundreds of testimonies, data points, and reports from Gaza are scattered across the web. Bearing Witness brings this information together in one place, organizing it within the context of time and place and connecting individual events to broader developments.

Mothers' Day for Peace, as originally proposed by poet and philanthropist Julia Ward Howe in 1872: "Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking of carnage...Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience."

Recently I realized that reading novels is an essential form of mental health care. Therefore if I'm not engrossed in a book, or keep looking at the page numbers, or find it dreary or boring or cliched, it's fine to stop reading. Because reading is self-care and reading a boring book is not.

"I usually offer the option of removal as a paid service, since it means taking down content that I've invested time, effort and resources into creating." Man with smart glasses covertly films woman, then demands that she pay him for his "time, effort and resources." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our version of No Mow May:

Thank you @people.com for sharing this important health information.

Because I love spotting wildflowers in odd spots and posting them with the #bloomscrolling hashtag. Here's a lupin growing from a cleft in a moss-covered rock.

Wikipedia: Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist. Not to be confused with Naomi Klein

"We remain concerned about the risk of atrocities across the region including the continuing risks posed by the Iranian government [...] and to civilians across the Middle East through Iran’s ongoing unlawful strikes on civilian infrastructure using explosive weapons in densely populated areas."

Narrator: No.

"According to the biblical tradition itself, Ishmael is also Abraham's son, and he too was granted a divine blessing and promise," writes Muhammad Sharif Odeh, Amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Israel & the Palestinian territories. I was privileged to meet Amir Muhammad Sharif Odeh in 2024.

Theoretically one is supposed to throw oneself to the ground and cover the back of your head with your hands, but I was afraid I'd fall into that trench behind the barrier. I'm not sure it would help anyway if one of those bomblets landed in front of me.

I'm an enthusiastic donor of books to giveaway shelves, and I always hope that one day I'll find THE one book that satisfies my esoteric reading needs, but no, it's often just "Edwina Currie: Diaries 1987-1992." Reader: I left it there.

These plants give me some small hope that no matter how much we wreck this planet, life will find a way. Anyway here's a wild lupin growing out of a cleft in a lichen-covered rock.

Here's a busy bee collecting nectar and pollen from a yellow aster if you need some inspiration. Bees gonna buzz no matter what

Just realized that my BlueSky feed is a curious mix of war, death, air pollution, climate crisis, human rights violations, as well as mating penguins gifting pebbles, possums-thought-extinct but actually alive, Harry-and-Meghan, books, cats and oh here's some pink apple blossom.

I have absolutely no idea, and I have absolutely no idea how most people in Israel look at a list like this and somehow are OK with it. The answer is of course that they don't look. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-02...

"Rainbocorns" - what is this? I saw it in a toy shop a while back. Some kind of unidentifiable toy that uses masses of plastic for no purpose.

Did AI write this

Pebbles is fond of ideas, as evidenced by her interest in books.

Or maybe the headline should read: "Another bonobo trait in humans: They pretend." “Whatever we are, we come from somewhere,” says Martin Surbeck, a primatologist at Harvard. “And all of our behaviors, they have precursors." So perhaps bonobos were imaginative before we were.

Not pretentious at all. And I'm very fond of sheep. And also of Pebbles, our adopted street cat. Here she is posing next to her "great-great-great-grandma," a portrait that my own grandmother left me in her will.

I used to joke that I could not draw "for toffee". Then I bought my kids an amazing book called "How to Draw Animals." I copied the instructions for a pig and a dog and the results were impressive!

China Fails to Curb the ‘Secret Filming Betrayal’ of Women and Girls www.nytimes.com/interactive/...