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Themed Reading Challenge

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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:

  1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
  2. Independent People by Laxness (Icelandic)
  3. Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
  4. Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungarian)
  5. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy (French)
  6. 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!

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