This week flew by pretty quickly. Didn’t even get time to read all the messages in last week’s post…
Finished Valour’s Choice by Tanya Huff. Book 1 of Confederation. Enjoyed the book, going to continue with the series, and may check some more of Tanya Huff’s work too.
Read Jujitu Kaisen Vol. 5. Nothing much to say about that, more of a manga goodness.
Started Dark Moon by David Gemell, a standalone fantasy book. This is my first Gemell book and I am enjoying it. I am about 1/3rd of the way in, and the world-building feels like something that can sustain a trilogy or even a longer series.
What about all of you? What have been reading or listening?
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Le Hobbit. Both in French because I need to really polish my French this year.
Ah, cool. What is your level of French? Can you understand the books without any/much use of dictionary?
I can follow mostly without problem, I get perhaps 98% of the words, the hard part is some grammatical constructions, but those have gotten easier the more I read. The Hobbit is my comfort text, it’s a story I already know by heart so I can work out the meaning of the words by my recollection of reading it in other languages (I’ve read it in both English and Spanish). Monte-Cristo is my practice text, I go chapter by chapter, first with the audiobook only, then again with both audio and text reading at the audio speed; then finally only the text at my own pace, checking every word I have trouble with. I’m reading it for the first time, which helps keeping the interest up. Also, eReaders are the ultimate language acquisition tools, I get Wikipedia, dictionary and translation in almost any language I could want in a single device.
I haven’t practiced my writing or speaking much though, which I will have to eventually.
Nice! I should start reading something in Spanish too.