I did decide to pick an unknown author from a previously unread country, so I will read Laila Lalami's Secret Son shortly.
Still making progress on my 5x3 challenge (decided to swap out Latin for German):
English:
Prose - several so far, including a review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Poem - a few, including Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Drama - will be reviewing some of Eric Basso's later this month or next.
Spanish:
Prose - a few, including Don Quijote being reviewed
Poem - Rubén Darío's Azul/Cantos de vida y esperanza
Drama - read de la Barca's La vida es sueño, will review sometime this year.
French:
Prose - a few, including a review of Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Poem - will read Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal later this year
Drama - read Beckett's En attendant Godot, will review later this year.
Italian:
Prose - reviewed Calvino's Il Barone Rampante
Poem - might attempt Dante
Drama - trying to decide between a couple of writers
German:
Prose - reviewed Kafka's Der Prozeß
Drama - will review Goethe's Faust later this month.
Porm - maybe Rilke or Parzival?
Still making progress on my 5x3 challenge (decided to swap out Latin for German):
English:
Prose - several so far, including a review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Poem - a few, including Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Drama - will be reviewing some of Eric Basso's later this month or next.
Spanish:
Prose - a few, including Don Quijote being reviewed
Poem - Rubén Darío's Azul/Cantos de vida y esperanza
Drama - read de la Barca's La vida es sueño, will review sometime this year.
French:
Prose - a few, including a review of Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Poem - will read Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal later this year
Drama - read Beckett's En attendant Godot, will review later this year.
Italian:
Prose - reviewed Calvino's Il Barone Rampante
Poem - might attempt Dante
Drama - trying to decide between a couple of writers
German:
Prose - reviewed Kafka's Der Prozeß
Drama - will review Goethe's Faust later this month.
Porm - maybe Rilke or Parzival?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
RAFO Challenges for March-April: tell us your plans.
- 01/03/2011 09:56:33 PM
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I rarely worry about such things
- 01/03/2011 11:06:03 PM
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Hard stuff. Any suggestions? Oh, it doesn't have to be in a different language does it? *NM*
- 01/03/2011 11:09:21 PM
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*NM*
I already finished Persepolis. I now feel like I should read another one.
- 02/03/2011 09:07:06 AM
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I'd be interested in reading your thoughts on Children of Gebelawi or Palace Walk.
- 02/03/2011 07:06:37 PM
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Children of Gebelawi does sound very interesting
- 02/03/2011 07:08:12 PM
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Keep an eye out for "Children of the Alley" as well - it's the same book in another translation. *NM*
- 02/03/2011 07:17:44 PM
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Is one of the translations better? *NM*
- 02/03/2011 07:30:18 PM
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No clue, never read either. In fact all I've read is the first five or six chapters in Arabic. *NM*
- 02/03/2011 07:30:51 PM
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