Thank you, B&B Ex Libris for hosting this challenge! The goal was to read 9 different books, written by 9 different authors, from 9 different countries. (End date is 12/20/08)
My favorites from this challenge were Persepolis and Out Stealing Horses. My least favorite titles were On Chesil Beach and Breath.
The books I read:
- Kaddish for a Child not Born
by Imre Kertesz (Hungarian author) - The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway (Canadian author) - Things Fall Apart by Achebe (Nigerian author)
- Silk
by Alessandro Baricco (Italian author) - On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan (UK author) - Snow by Maxence Fermine (French author)
- The Castle by Franz Kafka (Czech author)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (Irish author)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian author)
- Persepolis by Satrapi (Iranian/French author)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Swedish author)
- Breath
by Tim Winton (Australian author) - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Indian author)
- The Pets by Bragi Olafsson (Icelandic author)
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Norwegian author)
- X-Kai by Asami Tohjoh (Japanese author)
- The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez (Argentinian author)
Post Challenge Survey:
1.) What did you like about the challenge? Everything — I love world literature!
2.) What would you like to see change for next year? I don’t have anything in mind.
3.) About the rules, or the non-existent rules…did you like that? I thought the rules were fine.
4.) Are you going to join us next year? Yes
5.) Pretty please give me any suggestions for changes, the betterment of the challenge, or just anything that you would like to see changed for next year. Don’t really have any.
6.) Would you like the challenge to be more involved? What if we read books together sometimes? Would that interest you? No, that just doesn’t work for me usually.
7.) would you be interested in helping somehow next year? How would you like to help? I have too many challenges I’m hosting myself, otherwise I would!
great work!!! I really want to read the ones you say were your faves!!! They do look really good. Thanks for doing this challenge….it is fun to all read internationally together
happy reading!!!
Congrats on yet another challenge finished!
I just finished mine and I’m taking a peek at what others read. This one was fun. I’ve read 5, 8, 12, and 15 from your list, although only Out Stealing Horses as part of this challenge.
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