Around the World Through Language - 2017

[Mie]

Update msg 23: 5/10
✅ Polish - The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Lisa]

updating msg 66

Finished the second book for this challenge. This time in Spanish :)
El brillo de las luciérnagas (★★★☆☆ (3,5))

Progress: 2/5

[Lynn]

I've finished 3 more books (7/10) and updated Message 14

✔Norwegian - The Drowned Boy -- 02/14/17
✔Icelandic - Snowblind -- 02/18/17
✔Russian - Roadside Picnic -- 02/20/17

[Sheila]

Updated message 31

1/8
2. Chinese - The Art of War

[Maaike]

Update to message 186: 5/20

5 Indonesian: Schoonheid is een vloek ✔

[Cassandra]

Welcome to Marie and Wayne!

[Candiss]

I updated message #35.

Read: 1/6

[KellI]

I have just completed my first book for this challenge. I read The Spy. It was just ok. Now on to my next one.

[Miriam]

I'm in (a little bit late) for 10 books. Since my mother tongue is Spanish, I will have to skip that one, though if you'd like me to give you some advice, feel free to ask!

My list so far is:

1. English - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather ✔
2. French - En vieillissant les hommes pleurent by Jean-Luc Seigle.
3. Russian - Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
4. Italian - Bagheria by Dacia Maraini.
5. German - The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

The rest of them I will post as I go. My progress so far is 1/10...

If you have any piece of advice for me about other countries' novels or poetry I will be eager to read it!

[Alexandra]

I managed to finish 3 out of the 10 books that I want to read for this challenge:
1. The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Original language: Korean
2. The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank. Original language: Dutch
3. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak. Original language: Turkish (this is debatable since Shafak apparently wrote the book in English then hired a professional translator to write it in Turkish and then she re-wrote the entire thing again in Turkish).

[Imbunche]

Dutch: Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

completed: 2/5

[Amanda]

updated message 93
1/5

1. Journey to the Centre of the Earth (French)

[Vicki]

Sign me up for 10.

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 51 with French - Les Misérables - ****

2/5

[Mindy]

Updated message 100: 1/10

[Mie]

Update msg 23: 6/10
✅ Japanese - The Briefcase ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Maaike]

Update message 186:

6 Finnish: Vroeger was alles beter ✔
7 Swedish: De brandweerauto die verdween ✔

[Day]

Update message 208: I read The Queue which was translated from Arabic. I am now 2/5!

[Amanda]

Update #9

Around the World Through Language
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

4. German
The New Sufferings of Young W. by Ulrich Plenzdorf Completed 8/3/17 Rating 3 stars

4/10

[Lindsay]

Update msg 18

Babette's Feast

2/7

[Candiss]

I updated message #35.

Read: 2/6

[Karen]

Updated message #101

4/5 completed

[Melanie]

Update to message 88: Completed 1 out of 5

[Overbooked ✎]

Dutch: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

Progress: 5/5 Challenge completed!

link to my book list

I should be able to add other books for this challenge before the year is out, I’ll keep updating as I read them :)

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #6.

✅ Swedish: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 03/18/2017 ★★★★☆

2/10

[Yaara]

edit msg 86.
4/10

[Cheri]

Update: 4/5
Language: Swedish

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (3 stars)
Translated by Henning Koch.

[Diana]

I am in with 7/10.

1. Nigeria: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Teheran: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
3. USA: Anotimpul regasirii by Sarah Jio
4. France: M-am hotărât să devin prost by Martin Page
5. UK: Cameră cu vedere by E.M. Forster
6. Sweden: Paganinikontraktet by Lars Kepler
7. Canada: Povestea slujitoarei by Margaret Atwood

[Laurie]

Updated message 24

3/5 read

3. The Lover by Marguerite Duras (French)

[Nik]

[2/4] (OM 97)

1. Blue Is the Warmest Color (French) (2017.02.16, ★★★★☆).
2. The Eternaut (Spanish) (2017.03.08,★★★★☆).

[Claire]

3/12

1. Dutch - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

2. French - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. German - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

[Nik]

[3/4] (OM 97)

1. Blue Is the Warmest Color (French) (2017.02.16, ★★★★☆).
2. The Eternaut (Spanish) (2017.03.08,★★★★☆).
3. The Complete Persepolis (Persian) (2017.03.27, ★★★★☆).

[Janine]

Update: 2/6

2) Turkish - The King of Taksim Square

[Berit]

Updated #171
6/10
Portuguese: The Alchemist

[Nik]

Kristin, Goodreads can certainly make this information more clear. Currently, I only see hints. For example, I recently read Blue Is the Warmest Color. If you look at its Goodreads page, you can see that it says "Original Title: Le bleu est une couleur chaude". So that's the first hint. But perhaps I don't know French well enough to recognise it, so that may not be enough. So the next thing I do is click the "All editions" link and then sort that by "Original date published" and then go to the first listing. That sends me to https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... where I can see "Edition language: French".

It's a pretty unnecessarily convoluted process and hurts my brain, but I hope it helps you. And I really, really, really hope that I'm doing this all wrong and someone will chime in with a really obvious way of finding out this information that I've completely missed. =)

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #6.

✅ Greek: The Iliad by Homer 04/03/2017 ★★★★☆

3/10

[Cassandra]

Good questions, Kristin! The original intent of the challenge was to have each book be from a different translated language, but I'm fine if you want to count multiples.

On the question of how to tell if books have been translated, it's unfortunately tricky. Nik had some good suggestions, and the Wikipedia articles for books can be quite helpful. Of course, in both cases, you often have to have an idea that the book has been translated before going to hunt down the information.

Let us know if there's anything we can do to help! Luckily there are listopias and other lists with translated books.

[Cassandra]

Welcome to the challenge, Claire, Vicki, and Miriam. Glad to have you on board. :)

Congratulations to Kiwi for completing their challenge!

[Meaghan]

UPDATE

Goal: 4/10

Books Read
Swedish - The Darkest Room
Chinese - The Three-Body Problem
Spanish - Sacrifice
French - Madame Bovary

[Heather]

For April I have read Snowblind translated from Icelandic ..... excellent intelligent who dunnit - highly recommended

[KellI]

I am now 4/10!

[Imbunche]

Spanish: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende


completed: 3/5

[Lynn]

I've overachieved a bit on the challenge (12/10) but I think this finishes the unique languages in my to-read list for the year. All 12 are listed in Message 14 and here are the ones I read in March:

✔Danish - The Marco Effect -- 03/01/17
✔Italian - My Brilliant Friend -- 03/13/17
✔Polish - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen -- 03/26/17
✔French - A Climate of Fear -- 03/29/17
✔Dutch - Summer House with Swimming Pool -- 04/03/17

[Berit]

Update of #171
7/10
French: The Stranger (in English)

[Overbooked ✎]

Finished another one:

6. Polish: Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski,

Progress: 6/5

[Janine]

Update: 3/6

3) Japanese - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

[Laurie]

Updated message 24

4/5 read

4. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (Danish)

[Day]

Update message 208: I read The Blind Owl which is translated from Persian. I am now 3/5!

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #6.

✅ Spanish: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 04/11/2017 ★★★★☆

4/10

[Mie]

Update msg 23: 7/10
✅ Portuguese - The Alchemist ⭐️⭐️