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1001-Books Scavenger Hunt, 2022
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Task 8: Romance is in the air for 2022. Read a book originally written in one of the Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or Romanian.
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This is so easy it hurts. It may be The Leopard, although I read something by Baudelaire the other, as I was like "wow, that's amazing!", so I'm tempted to pick Madame Bovary based on it.
I just finished The Little Prince. Read for the first time aged 50. My Mum has a copy and I can't believe I've not read it before now! It was beautiful and made me teary.
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Turns out I already have four of the five languages on my 2022 to do list: Portuguese (Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado)
Spanish (The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa)
Italian (Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino)
French (The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal; Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre)
I'm just going to plug in whatever's left when the other categories are completed.
Listening to The Red and The Black by Stendhal.
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I did make it through Nausea! I've started Life: A User's Manual now anyway, but I'm farther along in one by an Italian author Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi.
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Pierre et Jean (other topics)The little prince (other topics)
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Guy de Maupassant (other topics)Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (other topics)
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Task 8: Romance is in the air for 2022. Read a book originally written in one of the Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or Romanian.