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message 1: by Kelly_Hunsaker_reads (last edited Sep 27, 2019 07:39PM) (new)

Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... | 867 comments Mod
This challenge is worth points. Please keep a post/comment that looks similar to the one I will post as an example. You may open that comment now for planning, and I will ask you to keep your points at the start of the year at the top of your post.

Points:
1. You earn 1 point for each book you read in translation for a language different than the others already taken. (Only one point for Spanish, or French, or any other language, for example.)
2. You earn 1 bonus point every time you have read 5 new language transaltions.
3. You earn 1 bonus point every time you read a second language translation from the same country.
4. Points are not limited.


message 2: by Rosemarie (last edited Dec 21, 2020 05:22PM) (new)

Rosemarie | 296 comments Point count for 2020:

1. Russian: The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
2. Latin: The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
3. French: Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
4. Korean: The Accusation by Bandi
5. German: The Provinces Of The Roman Empire: The European Provinces by Theodor Mommsen

Bonus for 5 languages +1

6. Greek - Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds by Aristophanes
7. Icelandic - The Blue Fox by Sjón
8. Dutch - Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
9. Hungarian - They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy
10. Persian- The Conference of Birds by Attar of Nishapur

Bonus for 5 languages +1

11. Swedish - Miss Julie by August Strindberg
12. Finnish - The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
13. Estonian - The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk
14. Polish- Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
15. Portuguese - Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by José Saramago

Bonus for 5 languages: +1

16. Spanish - The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda
17. Macedonian - The Time of the Goats by Luan Starova
18. Chinese - The Scholars by Wu Jingzi
19. Albanian - The Successor by Ismail Kadare
20. Norwegian - Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen

Bonus for 5 languages +1

21. Japanese - Japanese Tales from Times Past: Stories of Fantasy and Folklore from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu by Anonymous
22. Serbo-Croatian - The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergović
23. Italian - Black Run by Antonio Manzini
24. Slovene - Three Loves, One Death by Evald Flisar

Bonus books:
Russian - Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich +1
Russian - Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden by Gregory M. Levin +1
Russian - My Childhood by Maxim Gorky +1
French - The Carter of 'La Providence' by Georges Simenon +1
French- Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon +1
French - The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière +1
Russian - The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov +1
Greek - The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon+1
Russian - My Apprenticeship by Maxim Gorky +1
German - The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler +1
Hungarian - Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb +1
Greek - The Frogs of Aristophanes +1
French- A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon +1
Norwegian - Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen +1
Italian - Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari +1

Total: 44


message 3: by Kelly_Hunsaker_reads (last edited Jan 29, 2020 06:58PM) (new)

Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... | 867 comments Mod
Point count for 2020:

1. KOREAN - Please Look After Mom = 1
2. TURKISH - Snow = 1


TOTAL = 2


MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) Point count 2020:


message 5: by Amanda (last edited Oct 14, 2020 04:28PM) (new)

Amanda Dawn | 299 comments Point Count for 2020:

1. Bulgarian Book: A Ballad for Georg Henig (1 point)
2. Dutch book: Forever a Stranger and Other Stories (set in Indonesia), Geur der droefenis (2 points)
3. French book: The Opposing Shore, The Charterhouse of Parma, Germinal, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Tin Flute (Canada), The Roots of Heaven, Promise at Dawn,Là-Bas (8 points)
4. Hebrew Book:Black Box (1 point)
5) Russian Book: The Idiot, Anna Karenina, The Clay Machine-Gun, Oblomov (4 points)
*First 5 languages bonus point*

6) German Book: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr , The Young Man, The Guiltless (Austria), All Quiet on the Western Front, Austerlitz, Anton Reiser, Jahrestage, None But The Brave, Extinction (Austria), The Magic Mountain, (9 points)
7) Spanish Book: Deep Rivers (Peru), Three Trapped Tigers (Cuban Spanish), In Search of Klingsor (Mexican author), La dama número trece, A Heart So White], The Lost Steps(6 points)
8) Portugese Book: The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition (2 points)
9) Turkish Book: Snow (1 point)
10) Chinese Book: Monkey: The Journey to the West (1 point)
* 5 languages bonus point*

11) Japanese Book: Kokoro, The Sea of Fertility (2 points)
12) Arabic Book: Celestial Bodies, Midaq Alley, The Arabian Nights(3 points)
13) Danish Book: Smilla's Sense of Snow(1 point)
14) Italian Book: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year(2 points)

total: 46 points


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