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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5683 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 161 of 177 17 September 2011 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday in a bookstore I picked up a compilation of short pieces in French about the city of Paris, and was instantly drawn in by Victor Hugo's description of all the church bells of the city ringing on Easter morning. It was a chapter from "Notre Dame de Paris", and I think the compilation was called "Paris des écrivains" or something like that.
Besides that foray into French, I've been spending the last week or so in bookstores reading stuff in German: philosophy, poetry, books about translation, etc. I've been able to get in about an hour of reading per day (that's a guess at my average), which is pretty good for me. The most recent thing that struck me so much I had to get it was a small collection of poems by Rilke – I keep forgetting how amazing he is. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mrs. Dalloway Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 4959 days ago 70 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: GermanA2, French, Danish | Message 162 of 177 19 September 2011 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde [english]
Le silence de la mer, Vercors [français] Just to keep the training up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| xandreax Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5890 days ago 142 posts - 160 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 163 of 177 03 November 2011 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
1) Los últimos días de La Prensa (Spanish)
2) Hasta que me orinen los perros (Spanish) 
They´re both Peruvian authors. I´m reading books by Peruvian authors because, well, I´m in Peru right now. I really like how Jaime Bayly writes. Edited by xandreax on 03 November 2011 at 7:13pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 164 of 177 20 November 2011 at 6:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Diego Forlán's biography
The Hobbit - listening/reading in Spanish/Finnish, then pretending I've been reading in English as my "independent reading" for uni Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - listening/reading in Romanian/Russian Antti Halme "Tulileikit" just started and dad gave me his Japanese textbook that explains the development of the most common kanji/hanzi... fascinating though I have no plans to learn Japanese or Mandarin/Cantonese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6572 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 165 of 177 20 November 2011 at 10:49am | IP Logged | ||
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The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, in traditional Mandarin. Giggling to myself "I'm reading evolutionary biology
in Chinese!". Language learning is awesome. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6540 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 166 of 177 20 November 2011 at 12:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pietr le Letton by Simenon
出事以後 by 刘月华 キッチン by 吉本ばなな ฉันคือเอรี่ by ธนัดดาสว่างเดือน 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5335 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 167 of 177 20 November 2011 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
I have never read anything by Jaime Bayly, but have occasionally heard some of his commentary on politics and find them refreshing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6075 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 168 of 177 23 November 2011 at 10:19am | IP Logged | ||
I'm reading two "Jugendbücher". One with my daughter, "Drachenreiter", and the other for myself, "Le chateau de Hurle". We have to give Drachenreiter back to the library soon so we probably won't get through all 446 pages. It's supposed to be one of Cornelia Funke's best.
 
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