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Choose at least 4 book with a common theme.
Challenge runs from January 1 through June 30, 2008
Originally I wanted to read 4 Jane Austen books for the Masterpiece Theatre Jane Austen series starting in January. Then, I realized I had already read two of the four I wanted to read and forgot that I had read them! I’ve seen the movies so many times that I couldn’t remember if I had read the books or not. Then I remembered conversations I had had with friends about Emma and Sense & Sensibility about the differences between the movies and the books. Duh! I think I read them about 7 years ago or so. I’m still doing the Jane Austen mini-challenge, which is perfect because I know for sure I haven’t read Mansfield Park or Northanger Abbey.
So, as of 12/31/07 my new theme is literature in translation, and here are my titles:
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
- Independent People by Laxness (Icelandic)
- Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
- Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungarian)
- The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy (French)
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder (Norwegian)
Bonus/Alternates:
- The Castle by Franz Kafka (German)
- Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Italian)
- Strangers by Taichi Yamada (Japanese)
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Japanese)
- Kaddish for a Child not Born by Imre Kertesz (Hungarian)
- Detective Story by Imre Kertesz (Hungarian)
- Snow by Maxence Fermine (French)
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Russian)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian)
Thanks, Wendy!
