> Caitlin Marinelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Bueno Radhika, - que tipo de libro te gusta leer? Ficcion? Supongo que ya has >leido Cien Años de Soledad? Una novela que me encanta se llama "La Sombra Del >Viento" - de Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Una mezcla de historia, comedia, tragedia - >ambientado en la Barcelona. Se puede leerlo en ingles, tambien, ya que es un >"bestseller" mundial, pero es mas rico leer algo en su idioma nativa, creo yo. >Que lo disfrutes! > OK, that's going on my reading list. I agree with you - where possible it's always a richer experience reading in the original language. > >On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Radhika, Y. <[email protected]> wrote: > >the good news Caitlin is that you got me to look at and read the link. I have >to sometimes restrain myself from responding too much so in my "old age" have >taken to silence;-) btw, couldn't help noticing that you speak Spanish....I am >at a high intermediate level and am looking for reading suggestions. Any >thoughts? I promise to respond in English or Spanish:-) >> Radhika - have you tried Arturo Pérez-Reverte? I started with the series about el capitán Alatriste; the vocabulary was challenging at first, but I do love good historical swashbucklers, and the books are good enough to reward the effort. A few of them are available in English translation. I can also recommend el Club Dumas, which was loosely adapted into Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate a few years ago. cheers Divya P.S.: I tend to unlurk once in a while to talk about books... and I do read everything on the list with interest (thanks for the link, Caitlin), but have become less prolific on all online fora over the last few years. It might just be that so much of my waking time is spent on work-related communication that everything else is strictly triaged. Fear of top-posting is not really a factor; as others have pointed out, that specific rule hasn't been enforced of late, and I assumed it was more of a guideline, anyway :-)
