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(group member since Jan 13, 2020)
Csilla’s
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We could try poetry. I'm not really into it, but at least, the volumes are usually thin. These poets were recommended to be, though not in the French-learning context. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
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Good to see a new member coming out of the shadows, hello Kerril!Today I found out that the History of Witches (which I haven't seen yet, except for the trailers) is based on this book series. Have you guys watched it? Does the first season cover the first book? Yes, google is my friend, season 2 picks it up where book 2 (our book) starts.
So, was I the only one starting to read this book like: okay (not okay), time-travel, okay, that's a vampire. also a husband. (we missed the whole romance, why?!?) and protagonist is an untrained witch, I can live with that. Time travel though.. I don't like it, because it's like they are asking for plot holes. Time travel is the fresh blood equivalent of the sea of literature where the sharks are plot holes. I might have to work on this analogy a bit, but you get the point.
I just want to know how old is she supposed to be if she is a professor? Because if she is under 30 and a professor, I'm gonna be upset.
How is it going for you guys? Can we extend it till the end of March?
On n'avait jamais défini les objectifs hebdomadaire, mais ça pourrait être une bonne idée.
Il y a de l'espoir, je viens de trouvée ce livre, et le premier roman dans la série aussi.I decided to take French a bit more seriously and started checking the sex of objects and adjust my adjectives and such. yay!
okay, I'm done. i know it was my idea, but let's not continue with Belgian Scooby Doo meets MacGyver in February. ;) I guess it's cute if you are a child in 1960. or you were a child in 1960 and enjoy nostalgia.spoiler alert: there was a named female character! 50% of passing the first criteria of the Bechdel test. lol
French-wise, I think it was okay. there was some deviation from the written script but not too much, I had no trouble following it. The English dude had some English accent, which was nice.
(I just wish the plot wasn't all deus ex machina.)
Okay, I'm halfway through this, and it calls for a drinking game. Not that I drink alone, but if we do it again, I might reconsider.So, something like:
drink when:
-Tintin is captured
-Tintin escapes
-Milo speaks and you wonder who (if anyone) can understand him/does he really speak, or it's just Tintin's inner voice
-every character except Tintin looks the same
-racism
Drink two times when a female character appears, three times if she has a line. Has it happened? Will it happen? Who knows?!
open to suggestions.
In the meantime, I'm proposing Tintin. It's a (n almost a century old) comic, but it was the most popular comic in its time, and I haven't read one yet.Here: this one is early on in the series, read out loud so we'd be exposed to the correct pronunciation, it's free and only 2 hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-vq...
Yeah, I'm not big on comics either, but let's just give it a try. Some people here in Quebec are crazy for Tintin. it's time I find out why.
I got recommended two authors from Quebec:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
the best part: their works are relatively short: 150-ish pages.
Let me know if one or the other peaks your interest, and I will commit to read it as well in January.
I barely have the patience for English-speaking ones. :/ personal issues...
oh well. it's not like we would fail out of goodreads ;)
Did you guys read in the fall? Alas, I took up knitting, and mostly just listened to audiobooks.
Jimmy wrote: "Hi Calla,Je ne vois pas le post à propos du livre du mois. Pouvez-vous me donner le lien URL s’il vous plaît ? Merci 😉
Jimmy"
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Calla wrote: "lol. no not obsessed, observant. I'm at about 5%. I will look into vampires. I saw it but paid no attention to it.
I will get Les Gens."
I'm glad that you are back!
When I read your comment, I started watching Vampires (it caught my eyes before, but didn't settle to watch) - and the (evil?) leader of the (evil?) vampire organization is called Csilla (like yours truly). lol! Those French actors do a better job pronouncing my name than most Quebecers, but it's still not quite right.
It's a good year for ambiguous Hungarian female supervillains in European supernatural series, by the way: with this and Freud.
And we know: Jamais deux sans trois!
I'm going to finish The Stranger soon. (if I mention Asperger's again, are you going to think that I'm obsessed?)A new French series came out on Netflix, 'vampires', based on a book - I looked up the author, he has several novels. His most famous seems to be a thriller, Mygale. Gory. I'm going to give it a try, I don't know if you are into it.
I also got a couple of last century romance/family drama books from a friend:
Tant que la terre durera
Les gens de mogador
First volumes of two sagas, by the looks of it. I hope they'll be easy to read.
Edit. FYI
after reading a few pages each, Mygale seems very hard vocabulary-wise. Out of the other two, I'm going with Les gens de Mogador for now.
How is it going with Camus? I am at 40% or so. Not a fan of the protagonist, or any other character for that matter. It would be nice to find something heartwarming for next month, instead of 'the rose is a bitch, but I've put too much time into her, so I should just go back' or 'I am pretty sure I am not in love with you, but we can marry if you want to'. I'd be happy with a pulp romance at this point.
But... I just really need to talk about how bière means both beer and coffin :P So weird!I've started it already, but I can put it aside.
You are still struggling with the little prince then? You don't have to understand every single thing. The first time I read a book in English... I gave up because it was Tom Sawyer, and people were speaking weird - anyhow. When I really started reading English, and finishing books, it was when I accepted the fact that it just won't be the same as reading on my native language. It is just hazy. but that's normal. You have to live with it, and if you do and push through, the fog will slowly dissolve. Don't struggle with things you don't know, just breath them in and accept them for what they are until you become one with them. Just do it! Fake it till you make it!
Calla wrote: "Je n'ai pas fini. Je suis desolee."C'est pas grave, n'inquiète toi pas.
En tout façon, we didn't start it in the beginning of January.
Tu vas y arriver.
I've got suggestions from a French speaker for later:Madame Bovary
Marcel Pagnol: La gloire de mon père
