Around the World Through Language - 2017

[Claire]

Updated message 95. Read 10/10. Will set new goal on 15

[Charity]

Updated message 19.

1/5

[Imbunche]

Russian : Planeta Woda by Boris Akunin

4/5 completed

[Overbooked ✎]

10. Spanish: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

10/5

[Cheri]

Update: 6/5
translated from Korean
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang, translated by Chi-Young Kim (5 stars)

[Sam F]

Just finished my 10 - Message 22

Will see if I can read 5 more before the end of the year!

[Heather]

Read Only Daughter written by an Australian author - what a poor book!

[Clare]

Message 72 updated now at 3/5

[Imbunche]

Swedish: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Completed 5/5 :)

[Paula]

My native tongue is British-English: 6/5 COMPLETED 21st August!

Read in 2017:

French: Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
French: A Maigret Christmas by Georges Simenon
French: The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
French: Ru by Kim Thúy
German: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
German: Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob Grimm
German: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Korean: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Norwegian: Love by Hanne Ørstavik
Swedish: Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin
Turkish: Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

[Paula]

Done!

[Amanda]

Update #9


Russian

The Devil by Leo Tolstoy Completed 2/7/17 Rating 3 stars

Japanese

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondō Completed 7/7/17 Rating 4 stars


10/12

[Carol]

I just finished The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco translated from Italian. I have thought of a few more.
This is a great way to your horizons.

[Mindy]

Updated message 100:

3/10

[Nik]

Updated OM 97 with:

A Man Called Ove (Swedish) (2017.08.26, ★★★★★).

[4/4]

[Mie]

Update msg 23: 10/10 - COMPLETE ✔️
✅ Dutch - Crusade in Jeans ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Susan]

8/10 Read

6. Portuguese- We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories
7. French- Memoirs of a Porcupine
8. Chinese- Rickshaw Boy

[Candiss]

I updated message #35.

Read: 6/6

Challenge completed!

[Chelsea]

Update: Message 107
3/5

3. The Club Dumas (Spanish)

[Gayatri]

Update Message : 43

3/5

1. French - The Little Prince
2. German - Gut gegen Nordwind
3. German - Alle sieben Wellen

[Yaara]

update msg 86. 7/10

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 51

4/5

[Diana]

update:

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

I am in with 15/10.

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
15. Netherlands: Nesuferitele zile de luni by Arnon Grunberg

[Carol]

I have read two books for this challenge. The Name of a Rose by Umberto Eco and The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch

[Amanda]

Update #9


Swedish

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Completed 20/8/17 Rating 4 stars


11/12

[Claire]

Updated message 94. Have read 14/10 now.

[Maaike]

Update to message 186: 15/20

14 Turkish: Legende van de berg Ararat ✔
15 Chinese: Veranderingen ✔

It´s getting harder finding new languages at the library... Too bad so many African and Asian writers write in English of French. Or I guess it´s just that only the ones writing in English of French get translated and published in the west. Who knows what great stories we´re missing because no-one translates them from Cambodian of Swahili.

I guess I should read more eastern european literature.

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 51

5/5

[Sherry]

Update: 5/5 BOOKS Completed ✔

1. GREEK (Cyprus): The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis [Read 7/3/2017]
2. FRENCH: Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator), Ralph Manheim (Translator) [Read 7/1/2017]
3. SWEDISH: The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist, Marlaine Delargy (translator) [Read 9/12/2017]
4. FRENCH: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [Read 6/16/2017]
5. PORTUGUESE: Blindness by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) [Read 8/20/2017]

[[deleted user]]

Update to message#6.

✅ Japanese: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 09/30/2017 ★☆☆☆☆

7/10

[Maaike]

Update to message 186: 18/20 done!

16 Hungarian: De Pendragon legende ✔
17 Czech: Het jaar van de tuinier ✔
18 Russian: De Russische muur ✔

[Heather]

My October book was from Italy - Kill the Father
Just brilliant

10/12 done

[Anita]

I finished Cahier d'un retour au pays natal on Thursday.
2/5

[Charity]

Updated message 19.

2/5

[Chelsea]

Update: Message 107
4/5
In Other Words - Italian

[Amanda]

Update #9

German

12. the Stoker by Franz Kafka Completed 30/9/17 Rating 3 stars

12/12

Challenge completed

[Susan C]

Updated message 89

✓ 1. German - I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago read 4/26/2017
✓ 2. Italian - The Story of a New Name read 7/3/2017
✓ 3. Spanish - The Infatuations read 6/26/2017
✓ 4. Swedish - The Girl in the Spider's Web read 6/19/2017
✓ 5. Vietnamese - Paradise of the Blind read 2/18/2016

5/5 Challenge completed

[Heather]

For November I have read The House by the River

This is a book translated from Greek - a 3 star "ok" read

11/12 completed

[Sheila]

Updated message 31
Sorry I didn't do a very good job of updating, but I finished :)

5. Bengali* - The Fugitive
7. French - Syndrome E
8. Portuguese - The Alchemist
10. Japanese - 1Q84
11. Icelandic - The Flatey Enigma
12. Danish - The Boy in the Suitcase

[Kadijah Michelle]

Hello All,

Cassandra has been really busy this year, so I am posting an update here for you all.

Agnieszka - 14 /10 Completed!
Alexxy - 5 /5 Completed!
Amanda (message 9) - 12 /12 Completed!
Berit - 10 /10 Completed!
Candiss - 6 /6 Completed!
Cheri - 6 /5 Completed!
Diana - 15 /10 Completed!
Imbunche - 5 /5 Completed!
Karen - 6 /5 Completed!
Kiwi - 10 /5 Completed!
Lynn - 12 /10 Completed!
Mie - 10 /10 Completed!
Nik - 4 /4 Completed!
Paul - 5 /5 Completed!
Paula - 8 /5 Completed!
Sam F - 10 /10 Completed!
Sheila - 8 /8 Completed!
Sherry - 5 /5 Completed!
Susan C - 5 /5 Completed!
A. - 0 /5
Adam - 0 /20
Alexandra - 3 /10
alsmilesalot - 0 /6
Amanda (message 81) - 0 /12
Amanda (message 93) - 2 /5
Andrew - 0 /10
Anita - 2 /5
Anna - 7 /10
Apostolos - 3 /6
Caitlin - 0 /2
Caro - 0 /10
Carol - 0 /5
Carol - 0 /4
Carri - 0 /5
Carrie - 0 /2
Charity - 2 /5
Chelsea - 4 /5
Chema - 0 /12
Christina - 1 /5
Christine - 0 /10
Cindy lll - 0 /8
Claire - 14 /10
Claire - 3 /12
Clare - 1 /5
cobean - 0 /5
Cosmic - 0 /5
Cynthia - 0 /5
Day - 3 /5
Dominique - 0 /10
Ecem - 4 /11
Elina - 1 /8
Erika - 0 /10
Erin - 0 /5
Florence - 0 /2
Gabriella - 0 /50
Gail - 2 /5
Gayatri - 3 /5
Gem - 0 /10
Hailey 0 /20
Harsha - 4 /8
Heather - 11 /12
Jae - 5 /20
Jane - 4 /10
Janine - 5 /6
Jenn - 2 /7
Jennifer (message 16) - 9 /15
Jennifer (message 32) - 0 /21
Jenny - 0 /10
Jessica - 0 /5
Kadijah Michelle - 1 /5
Karoline - 0 /5
Kate - 4 /5
Katherine - 3 /10
Kelll - 7 /10
Kristin - 4 /5
Kristy - 0 /5
kyla - 0 /10
Lauri - 4 /10
Laurie - 4 /5
Ligia - 0 /15
Lindsay - 6 /7
Lisa - 3 /5
Lisa (Likenbooks) - 5 /12
Lulu - 0 /5
Maaike - 18 /20
Maggie - 0 /7
Maria (message 17) - 0 /5
Marie - 1 /12
Marina H - 2 /5
Mary-Lynne - 0 /10
Maureen - 0 /10
Meaghan - 4 /10
Megan - 0 /10
Melanie (message 135) - 0 /8
Melanie (message 88) - 1 /5
Michaela - 0 /10
Mindy - 3 /10
Miriam - 0 /10
Miriam - 49 /55
Nancy - 0 /5
Nicole - 0 /5
Nurai - 0 /7
Olivia - 0 /5
Q - 0 /5
Rowizyx - 3 /20
Samantha - 1 /5
Shelly - 0 /3
Siegwalt - 2 /5
Susan - 8 /10
Tammy - 0 /5
Tanya - 3 /10
Tina - 0 /10
Toni - 0 /5
Tracye - 0 /7
Veena - 0 /5
Vicki - 0 /10
Voracious_reader - 3 /5
Wayne - 12 /30
Yaara - 7 /10
Zita - 0 /5

[Lindsay]

Update msg 18

8/7 Complete

[Charity]

Updated message 19.

3/5

[Karen]

Update to message 101 -

7/5

[Janine]

Update: 6/6 Complete!

6) German - Inkspell

[Charity]

Updated message 19.

4/5

[Mindy]

Updated message 100:

5/10

[Jenn]

Updated message 113: 4/7

[Carol]

I have finished 3/4 from this challenge:
The Name of Rose by Umberto Eco
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Farrante

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 51

6/5

[Kadijah Michelle]

Here's another update:

Agnieszka - 14 /10 Completed!
Alexxy - 5 /5 Completed!
Amanda (message 9) - 12 /12 Completed!
Berit - 10 /10 Completed!
Candiss - 6 /6 Completed!
Cheri - 6 /5 Completed!
Diana - 15 /10 Completed!
Imbunche - 5 /5 Completed!
Janine - 6 /6 Completed!
Karen - 7 /5 Completed!
Kiwi - 10 /5 Completed!
Lindsay - 8 /7 Completed!
Lynn - 12 /10 Completed!
Mie - 10 /10 Completed!
Nik - 4 /4 Completed!
Paul - 6 /5 Completed!
Paula - 9 /5 Completed!
Sam F - 10 /10 Completed!
Sheila - 8 /8 Completed!
Sherry - 5 /5 Completed!
Susan C - 5 /5 Completed!
A. - 0 /5
Adam - 0 /20
Alexandra - 3 /10
alsmilesalot - 0 /6
Amanda (message 81) - 0 /12
Amanda (message 93) - 2 /5
Andrew - 0 /10
Anita - 2 /5
Anna - 7 /10
Apostolos - 3 /6
Caitlin - 0 /2
Caro - 0 /10
Carol - 0 /5
Carol - 3 /4
Carri - 0 /5
Carrie - 0 /2
Charity - 4 /5
Chelsea - 4 /5
Chema - 0 /12
Christina - 1 /5
Christine - 0 /10
Cindy lll - 2 /8
Claire - 14 /10
Claire - 3 /12
Clare - 1 /5
cobean - 0 /5
Cosmic - 0 /5
Cynthia - 0 /5
Day - 3 /5
Dominique - 0 /10
Ecem - 4 /11
Elina - 1 /8
Erika - 0 /10
Erin - 0 /5
Florence - 0 /2
Gabriella - 0 /50
Gail - 2 /5
Gayatri - 3 /5
Gem - 0 /10
Hailey 0 /20
Harsha - 4 /8
Heather - 11 /12
Jae - 5 /20
Jane - 4 /10
Jenn - 4 /7
Jennifer (message 16) - 9 /15
Jennifer (message 32) - 0 /21
Jenny - 0 /10
Jessica - 0 /5
Kadijah Michelle - 1 /5
Karoline - 0 /5
Kate - 4 /5
Katherine - 3 /10
Kelll - 7 /10
Kristin - 4 /5
Kristy - 0 /5
kyla - 0 /10
Lauri - 4 /10
Laurie - 4 /5
Ligia - 0 /15
Lisa - 3 /5
Lisa (Likenbooks) - 5 /12
Lulu - 0 /5
Maaike - 18 /20
Maggie - 0 /7
Maria (message 17) - 0 /5
Marie - 1 /12
Marina H - 2 /5
Mary-Lynne - 0 /10
Maureen - 0 /10
Meaghan - 4 /10
Megan - 0 /10
Melanie (message 135) - 0 /8
Melanie (message 88) - 1 /5
Michaela - 0 /10
Mindy - 5 /10
Miriam - 0 /10
Miriam - 49 /55
Nancy - 0 /5
Nicole - 0 /5
Nurai - 0 /7
Olivia - 0 /5
Q - 0 /5
Rowizyx - 3 /20
Samantha - 1 /5
Shelly - 0 /3
Siegwalt - 2 /5
Susan - 8 /10
Tammy - 0 /5
Tanya - 3 /10
Tina - 0 /10
Toni - 0 /5
Tracye - 0 /7
Veena - 0 /5
Vicki - 0 /10
Voracious_reader - 3 /5
Wayne - 12 /30
Yaara - 7 /10
Zita - 0 /5