French Language Learners discussion

Is anyone/ everyone up for a group book read?

If so please list your books below and we can take a poll.
my picks are:

Le Petite Prince
Candide Voltaire
Sixtine Livre 1: Caroline Vernalle

I guess nobody was up for the challenge. ;) Have you read them since? I can join you for the Little Prince, or the young-adult fiction if I find it as an e-book. (kindle's built-in vocabulary is invaluable)
I remember Candide from school. It left a deep enough impression to prevent me from picking it up again. lol
I browsed on the Gutenberg project yesterday, and downloaded some French literature:
Camus: l'Etranger
Hugo: 93
Maupassant: Contes de la Becasse
Dumas: La reine Margot
according to my memories, Dumas is a faster and more entertaining read than Hugo. I have no experience with Camus though. And Maupassant's book is just short stories, which I don't love, generally, but it might make reading in French easier. what do you think?

Csilla wrote: "I guess nobody was up for the challenge. ;) Have you read them since? I can join you for the Little Prince, or the young-adult fiction if I find it as an e-book. (kindle's built-in vocabulary is in..."

Oui,
I am ready with Le Petit Prince when you are. I have not read it as of yet! Then we can move on to Dumas I have yet to read that as well. If you are up for it we can pick a book every month or every week and read through it.
Currently I have l'etranger and Le petit prince but can grab the others as well and new reads.
Shall we start next monday?or sooner?
As far as Maupassant's book, I think it depends on the level of reading. They may be short stories but if the vocabulary and sentence structures are advanced they may take a while to read.

Donc, Le Petit Prince. Je vais commencer cette fin de semaine et on verra comment ça se passe. ;) 1 French book/week sounds a bit too ambitious for me but 1/month won't be a problem.

commencons. Let's aim for a book a month shall we.

Do you want to open a different topic for each book we read, or will we just discuss them here? I've started Le petit prince, it is easy to read, but I am not rushing it. (we all know the story anyway ;)) I just wish he wouldn't write 'grandes personnes' and such, it feels like he is talking down to children. They are not idiots, they know what adults are.

Le Petit Prince sonne bien! Je commencera le lire cette semaine.

Also, I am up for trying to read a book a month, and L'Etranger sounds like a good book to read!

Amy wrote: "Le Petit Prince sonne bien! Je commencera le lire cette semaine.

Also, I am up for trying to read a book a month, and L'Etranger sounds like a good book to read!"

Awesome

Csilla wrote: "Do you want to open a different topic for each book we read, or will we just discuss them here? I've started Le petit prince, it is easy to read, but I am not rushing it. (we all know the story any..."

Je commence le petit prince aussie. C'est un difficle livre pour moi.
Lets start in a new tooic so we can just post all monthly reads there.

Bienvenue Amy.

Have we all agreed on l'etranger for fevrier?

Okay for Camus.
Come and join the discussion about le petit prince in the other topic, Amy!

I've got suggestions from a French speaker for later:
Madame Bovary
Marcel Pagnol: La gloire de mon père

Can we start the next book in March? . I have the kindle versions but I want to grab the physical copies to read instead?

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!

je finis Le petit Prince et je commence l'etranger.

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.

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.

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.

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!