Euro Reading Challenge 2013 Wrapup
Rose City Reader's 2013 Challenge actually extended to the end of this month, so as to give space for wrapping up anything that needed finishing--a great idea, I thought. Now it's time for the final post and count. Here are the different countries I visited. Many of them got several books, really. I ended up reading maybe 4 books set in Poland, for example, and I don't even know how many UK titles. And for this purpose, I can only count one UK book, not separate titles for Scotland, England, Wales, and NI. So here it is:
- Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon, by Iosif Shklovsky (Ukraine)
- Anna Karenina, by Lev Tolstoy (Russia)
- The Middle Window, by Elizabeth Goudge (UK)
- Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James (Italy)
- Sister Queens, by Julia Fox (Spain)
- Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law, by Michelle Granas (Poland)
- The Red and the Black, by Stendhal (France)
- The Trial, by Franz Kafka (Austro-Hungary/Czech Rep.)
- The Queen's Diadem, by C. J. L. Almqvist (Sweden)
- Der Struwwelpeter (in German, so Germany)
- Shopping for a Better Country, by Josip Novakovich (Croatia)
- Niels Lyhne, by Jens Peter Jacobsen (Denmark)
- Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder (Belarus)
- In Search of Ancient Ireland, by Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton (Ireland)
- Beware of Pity, by Stefan Zweig (Austria)
- Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Iceland)
Comments
You hit Croatia, Belarus and Iceland, so that's pretty impressive!
Nicely done, Jean! Besides the sheer number of books you read for the challenge, the quality of books that you read sets you apart from probably the bulk of the challenge participants. At least several of the books on your list are quite lengthy.
Well done!
Inspired by yours, did my Wrap Up post this afternoon.
The main wrap up post listing you as one of the Honorable Mention participants is here: http://www.rosecityreader.com/2014/02/2013-european-reading-challenge-wrap-up.html