Litsy Reading Challenge 2017 discussion

#LitsyRC15

A book translated to your language from a different language

I think I'll read Voices from Chernobyl for this. I've been wanting to read it all year.

A Man Called Ove was technically translated from Swedish, and I cannot recommend it more!!! Just... have tissues at the ready.

Jessica wrote: "A Man Called Ove was technically translated from Swedish, and I cannot recommend it more!!! Just... have tissues at the ready."

I second that recommendation...and the need for tissues!

In looking for books written by someone my age I found both of these translated from another language to English:

Swedish - Missing
Italian - I'm Not Scared

I read The Shadow of the Wind for this prompt in a challenge I did this year... could not recommend this book more!

Suite Française I'm thinking

I was not aware that A Man Called Ove was a translated book! I've got that, so I'll use it for my translated book. Thanks!

I should consider that one; so many people have recommended it to me.

Laura wrote: "I was not aware that A Man Called Ove was a translated book! I've got that, so I'll use it for my translated book. Thanks!"

Peggy wrote: "I should consider that one; so many people have recommended it to me.

Laura wrote: "I was not aware that A Man Called Ove was a translated book! I've got that, so I'll use it for ..."
It's SO good! One of the best books I read this year. I recommend it to everyone!

I am thinking of reading Memoirs of a Polar Bear since I have it on a TBR list

My uncle suggested anything by Umberto Eco so I am going with The Prague Cemetery.

I just finished this one today. I read The Decagon House Murders, translated to English from Japanese. It's a really engaging, completely plot driven locked-room mystery that I got as a Christmas gift.

I'll be using Madame Bovary for this prompt!

i would recommend Shadow of the Wind or the My Brilliant Friend books (love, love , love)

I'm starting War and Turpentine for this square. Translated from the Dutch.

I read The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World

I just finished reading The Play of Death (The Hangman's Daughter series, Book #6; by Oliver Pötzsch; translated from the German by Lee Chadeayne.) This is a historical fiction mystery set in seventeenth-century Germany. In the town of Oberammergau, a young man has been crucified during the rehearsals for a Passion Play; mountain dwarfs known as "the Venetians" are scrambling through the mountains, and back in Shongau, a doctor starts to persecute one of the hangman's daughters for witchcraft... The scenes are vivid, dark and dirty; and the characters are well-drawn and from real-life figures from the past (The author comes from a line of executioners and researches his topics from local chronicles.) This novel also draws a mirror and cautionary tale between the xenophobia of the ancient valley and current events in Europe today. Even though this was the sixth novel in the series, it was the first one I've read, and it stood very well on its own.

Madonna in a Fur Coat