Postby garyb » Mon Oct 31, 2016 11:24 am
Small things...
Reading: Finished Accabadora. Quite well-written and certainly something different, but not exactly my thing. I enjoyed the part set in Turin the most, since it talked about places I've visited like Parco del Valentino. In Spanish, I decided to check out Isabel Allende, an author who is mentioned frequently on this forum, and started La casa de los espíritus. I've read the first dozen pages and so far it is hard. This is a proper book, not some blog-style trash like Apocalipsis Z. I'm undecided on whether to persevere and satisfy my curiosity or to shelve it and find something more appropriate for my current goals and level. Recommendations are always welcome.
Films and TV: Watched Mine vaganti, which was a recommendation, but I found it too melodramatic and I had the same feeling as with one of the director's other films (Saturno contro) that it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a serious story or a lighter one. In Spanish I'm continuing with Cuéntame which is interesting if not exactly exciting. I might complement it with something more gripping like a crime series.
Radio: One of these things I do a lot of but don't write much about, because there's not much to say really. But Spain's RTVE Radio 3 has been a great recent discovery! Lots of very good music, particularly jazz but most genres are represented, apart from classical which has its own station. Obviously not a good choice if you just want to hear spoken language, but for me it's a nice mix of some Spanish and some musical discovery. There's a fair bit of music in Spanish as well as English and other languages: I've heard some sections with music all in French and Portuguese, for example. For Italian, I quite like Radio Deejay: it's more low-brow and conversational than the RAI stations, although on the minus side it's more "trendy", i.e. more English pop music.
Otherwise: some Italian speaking at home and on Skype, a bit more FSI, the usual things.
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