Around the World Through Language - 2017

[Carrie]

Missed me for the participants list :) Message #99

[Berit]

Updated post #171
8/10 completed.
Danish: Nordiska Myter (in Swedish)

[Berit]

Updated post #171
9/10 completed
Norwegian: The Solitaire Mystery (in Swedish)

[Amanda]

Update #9

Another one by Tolstoy. I'd still like to read 10 different languages so my new total is 5/11

5. Russian
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy Completed 16/4/17 Rating 3 stars

[Carol]

I would like to try 4.

[Overbooked ✎]

7. Icelandic: Blackout by Ragnar Jónasson

progress: 7/5

[Claire]

Updated 245.

[KellI]

I have just finished and I am now 4/10 on this challenge!

[Karen]

Updated 101 - 5/5

I read Confessions by Kanae Minato, Stephen Snyder (Translation) - Japanese to English

[Lisa]

Update progress msg #66

3/5
Korean: The Vegetarian

[Lindsay]

Update msg 18

The House of the Spirits

3/7

[GailW]

Update message 26:
Have read 2
[X] 1. Sweden-Britt-Marie Was Here
[X] 2. Russia: The Winter Queen: A Novel

[Maaike]

Update to message 186:

8 Italian: Kwellende liefde ✔
9 Spanish: Ripper ✔
10 French: Tram 83 ✔

[Jane]

Updated message 62:

4/10 DONE!

Polish - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Władysław Szpilman

Japanese - A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe

Norwegian - My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård

[Berit]

Challenge completed! 10/10
My native language is Swedish, but I read in English as well. I use the English titles below (if possible).

1. Korean: The Vegetarian (in English) - FINISHED
2. Italian: The Story of a New Name (in Swedish) - FINISHED
3. English: A Christmas Carol (in Swedish) - FINISHED
4. Russian: The Blizzard (in Swedish) - FINISHED
5. German: The Metamorphosis (in English) - FINISHED
6. French: The Stranger (in English) - FINISHED
7. Norwegian: The Solitaire Mystery (in Swedish) - FINISHED
8. Dutch: Gnomes (in Swedish) - FINISHED
9. Portugese: The Alchemist (in Swedish) - FINISHED
10. Danish: Nordiska Myter (in Swedish) - FINISHED

[Susan]

5/10 Read

1. Japanese- Rashomon and Other Stories
2. Thai-Love Sick: The Chaotic Lives of Blue Shorts Guys
3. Spanish- Kiss of the Spider Woman
4. Hindi- The Ramayana
5. Arabic- The Arabian Nights

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #6.

✅ French: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 05/08/2017 ★★★★★

5/10

[Heather]

Finished Britt-Marie Was Here
5/12 done

[Janine]

Update: 4/6

4) Korean - The Vegetarian

[Diana]

update:

AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH LANGUAGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

I am in with 12/10.

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
8. South Africa: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
9. Czech Republic: Insuportabila ușurătate a ființei by Milan Kundera
10. Norway: Monster by Jørgen Jæger
11. Japan: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
12. Jamaica: The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

[Cassandra]

Congratulations to Lynn, Berit, Karen, and Diana for completing their challenges!

Welcome, Carol! I added you.

Carrie - sorry to have missed you twice. I added you to the list.

[Overbooked ✎]

and one more: Japanese: Out by Natsuo Kirino

progress: 8/5

[Cheri]

Update: 5/5 -- Challenge complete!!
Translated from the Portuguese.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1 star)

This completes the challenge! I will probably read more translated books, but don't want to increase the pressure by increasing the goal. :)

[Cassandra]

Congratulations, Cheri! Which was your favorite book of the challenge? Assuming not The Alchemist. ;)

[[deleted user]]

Update to message #6.

✅ Russian: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 05/30/2017 ★★★☆☆

6/10

[Lindsay]

Update msg 18

The Little Prince

4/7

[Fatemeh]

Update:

1. French : The Plague
2. Japanese : Kafka on the Shore
3. Portuguese : The Devil and Miss Prym
4. Spanish : Like Water for Chocolate
5. German : Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

5/5 ---> Challenge Completed

[Janine]

Update: 5/6

5) French - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

[Candiss]

I updated message #35.

Read: 3/6

[Maaike]

Update to msg 186: 12/20.

11 Norwegian: Vermissing ✔
12 Arab (Syrian): Een dag van stilte en lawaai ✔

[Maaike]

Update to msg 186: 13/20

13 German: Kamp ✔

[Mie]

Update msg 23: 8/10
✅ Spanish - Love in the Time of Cholera ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Candiss]

I updated message #35.

Read: 4/6

[Heather]

Read The Devotion of Suspect X - Japanese translation - a brilliant 5 star read.

[Chelsea]

Update: Message 107
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
(Swedish)

[Harsha]

Update: Message 95 (4/8)

Korean: Vegetarian ✔
Icelandic: Heaven and Hell ✔
Japanese: Norwegian Wood Kafka on the Shore ✔
Spanish: Labyrinths Ficciones ✔
German: The Complete Stories, Steppenwolf
Italian: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Russian: The Master and Margarita
French: Swann's Way (Candide)

[Diana]

update:

AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH LANGUAGE
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

I am in with 14/10.

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
8. South Africa: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
9. Czech Republic: Insuportabila ușurătate a ființei by Milan Kundera
10. Norway: Monster by Jørgen Jæger
11. Japan: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
12. Jamaica: The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
13. Romania: Pământul oamenilor liberi by Liliana Lazar
14. Australia: Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

[Miriam]

Hey there, I'm going to join and include the books already read this year that meet the criteria.

so far: 49 books/11 languages

I am trying for 55 books from 15 different languages,

as I mainly read books that weren't originally written in German (which is my mother tongue).

Read already (many of the English originals I read in English).

Books from other languages I usually read in the German translation rather than in the English one.

1. (English): The Age of Hope
2. Swedish: Jagdrevier
3. Swedish: In stürmischer Nacht
4. Swedish: Der unerbittliche Gegner
5. Swedish: Der elfte Gast
6. Swedish: Die Menschheit hat den Verstand verloren: Tagebücher 1939-1945
7. Swedish: Verletzlich
8. Italian: Meine geniale Freundin
9. Italian: Die Geschichte eines neuen Namens
10. Icelandic: Eiskaltes Gift: Ein Island-Krimi
11. Finnish: Dinge, die vom Himmel fallen
12. English: Commonwealth
13. English: The Book of Unknown Americans
14. Swedish: Vom Inder, der auf dem Fahrrad bis nach Schweden fuhr, um dort seine große Liebe wiederzufinden. Eine wahre Geschichte
15. Danish: Die guten Frauen von Christianssund: Sommerdahls erster Fall
16. English: The Underground Railroad
17. Spanish: Paris-Austerlitz
18. Icelandic: DNA
19. Swedish: Der Bruder
20. English: To Kill a Mockingbird
21. English: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
22. English: Am Samstag aß der Rabbi nichts: - Kriminalroman
23. French: Die Mauer - Bericht aus Palästina
24. French: Der Hut des Präsidenten
25. English: Das Happiness-Projekt: oder wie ich ein Jahr damit verbrachte, mich um meine Freunde zu kümmern, den Kleiderschrank auszumisten, Philosophen zu lesen und überhaupt mehr Freude am Leben zu haben
26. Spanish (read in Spanish, too): Abdel
27. English: Der Lügner
28. English: Sirius
29. English: Rivers of London: Body Work
30. English: Rivers of London: Night Witch
31. English: The Hanging Tree
32. English: Black Mamba Boy
33. English: Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
34. English: My Name is Lucy Barton
35. Hebrew: Warum bist du nicht vor dem Krieg gekommen?
36. Norwegian: Kammerflimmern
37. English: Soulless
38. French/ English How To Be Parisian wherever you are: Liebe, Stil und Lässigkeit à la française - Deutsche Ausgabe
39: English: Erst denken, dann zahlen
40. English: Rivers of London: Black Mould
41. English: Swimming Lessons
42. English: The Penelopiad
43. Danish: Der Judaskuss
44. English: The Final Solution
45. Finnish: Die Sache mit Norma
46. Swedish: Ein Mann namens Ove
47. English: Unsere Seelen bei Nacht
48. French: Erschlagt die Armen!: Roman
49. Yiddish: Die Nacht

Languages: English, Swedish, Finnish, French, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Hebrew; Icelandic, Italian, Yiddish,

[Overbooked ✎]

Progress update: 9/5 for me, here's my list so far:

1. Russian: We
2. Italian: Le città invisibili
3. German: All Quiet on the Western Front
4. French: The Red Notebook
5. Dutch: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
6. Polish: Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
7. Icelandic: Blackout by Ragnar Jónasson
8. Japanese: Out by Natsuo Kirino
9. Swedish: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

I'd like to red one more book for this challenge, so to double my initial goal of five

[Amanda]

updated message 93
2/5

2. The Alchemist (Portuguese)

[Sheila]

Updated message 31

3/8

6. Swedish - The Girl in the Spider's Web
9. Italian - The Prince

[Lindsay]

Update msg 18



6/7

[Candiss]

I updated message #35.

Read: 5/6

[Amanda]

Updated #9

I've read another German book so upping my challenge to 12. As we're going into the second half of the year, if I read a language I've read already I'm adding it to the challenge but not upping my total.

6. German

The Judgement by Franz Kafka Completed 21/6/17 Rating 2 stars

7. Czech

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Completed 21/6/17 Rating 3 stars

8. Portuguese

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho Completed 25/6/17 Rating 3 stars

8/12

[Claire]

Updated 245.

[Mindy]

Updated message 100:

2/10

[Chelsea]

Update: Message 147
The Reader - German

[Amanda]

Updated message 93
4/5

3. The Art of War (Chinese)
4. Night (Yiddish)

[Heather]

For July I have read The Keeper of Lost Causes written originally in Danish

[Mie]

Update msg 23: 9/10
✅ Icelandic - DNA ⭐️⭐️⭐️