Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5335 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 105 of 177 13 October 2010 at 5:04am | IP Logged |
Started Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin. An interesting read given the author's opinions in his latest book just a couple of years later.
Also begun reading La fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa. Don't have an opinion on it yet.
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crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5808 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French
| Message 106 of 177 14 October 2010 at 6:43am | IP Logged |
Languages: Speaking Korean - Francis Park. FSI Korean Volume 2. Assimil Spanish with Ease (and random other supplementary Korean and Spanish books).
Fiction: I'm reading "Crown of Stars" by Kate Elliot (Book 1) as I recently got into the fantasy genre because of George R R Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
I want to pick up the newest Terry Pratchett book soon. I've got Speaking Korean 2 and 3 and Spoken Korean coming quite soon as well as 'Angels and Demons' in Spanish for L-R practice.
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 107 of 177 16 October 2010 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
I have just read a book from our library. There are quite some interesting non-fictional books about natural sciences to find - all of them are in German.
My book: Charlotte Kerner, Sternenflug und Sonnenfeuer - Drei Astronominnen und ihre Lebensgeschichten, 2004
(Three female astronomers and their life stories)
The book deals with the biographies of:
- Maria Cunitz (1604-1664)
- Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
- Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
Fasulye
Edited by Fasulye on 16 October 2010 at 3:46pm
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Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5811 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic
| Message 108 of 177 17 October 2010 at 12:32am | IP Logged |
Wächter der Nacht by Sergej Lukianenko: the German translation of "Ночной Дозор", since I
can't read Russian.
Elchtest: Ein Jahr in Bullerbü by Gunnar Herrmann, a story of a German family moving to
Sweden
Small Talk by Stephen Lermer, to uh.. help my small talk skills? (:
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staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5687 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written)
| Message 109 of 177 17 October 2010 at 4:00pm | IP Logged |
Une soirée au Caire, Robert Solé.
C'est une chose étrange à la fin que le monde, Jean d'Ormesson.
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noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5330 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean
| Message 111 of 177 17 October 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
Currently I am reading 血と骨 (chi to hone), a Japanese novel written by a Japan-based Korean author, Yang Sogil (梁石日). I am just done with book 1, and will continue book 2 tomorrow. It is a highly recommended novel for all those Japanese speakers to learn more about the life of Korean in Japan, especially during the period of 20s-70s...
Edited by noriyuki_nomura on 17 October 2010 at 5:18pm
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fireflies Senior Member Joined 5171 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 112 of 177 18 October 2010 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
Lindsay19 wrote:
Small Talk by Stephen Lermer, to uh.. help my small talk skills? (: |
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I tend to read things like the 7 day weather forecast to help with that. I believe that whether it will rain or not is a topic that leaves both parties in any brief conversation happy.
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