I read this with a parallel text, as mentioned above:
1. read chapter in German, without looking up any unknown words
2. read chapter in German, looking up all unknown words in a parallel text
3. listen to the relevant part of the radio drama (3 episodes | 6 episodes)
4. listen to the relevant part of the audio book.
I'm using DTV for the German text, and Gutenberg.org for the English text but Anaconda Verlag have a readymade parallel text too.
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 78#p208878
I've got the Radio drama on my MP3 player, and I've listened to that several times.
86. Darling Jane by Christian Grawe
I read this without looking up any unknown words.
This is a biography of Jane Austen, it was mentioned by a German YouTuber, the author is an academic who translated all of Miss Austen's books for Reclam in the 1970s/1980s.
Miss Austen apparently spoke French and some Italian. Her using French is never mentioned, but there must have been lots of French refugees in Britain in her lifetime (1775-1817). One of her cousins married a French aristo who was killed during the Terror.
87. Geschichten vom lieben Gott by Rainer Maria Rilke
I read this on an eReader, looking up all unknown words. It's a short story collection, after reading each story I then listened to an audio recording.
Mr Rilke visited Russia and was deeply impressed by the spiritualty of the people. His trip there inspired a collection of poems, Das Stunden Buch, which I first heard of in a YouTube video "my favourite books of all time". I looked this up, but when I saw it was poetry, I thought it might not be for me, but I then saw the Geschichten vom liebe gott and thought that would be a good prose alternative. I did however resolve to make another attempt to start reading English poetry.
My favourite story was "Wie der Fingerhut dazu kam, der liebe Gott zu sein".
TV
I've finished watching In Therapie, and now I'm watching Lukas, a 30 minute sitcom.
I also watched some episodes of Der Usedom Krimi (UK title: Nordic Murders).
French
I've just finished watching a four part documentary series Histoire de l'antisemitisme which was very interesting. In the last episode they mentioned a film Le vieil homme et l'enfant, and a novel Le dernier des justes. I think Spinoza's Ethics was mentioned in an earlier episode too.
My next book, not yet started, will be la femme au temps des cathédrales by Régine Pernoud.
English
Some time ago, possibly after a New Year's Resolution, I bought a poetry book (ISBN: 0198121369) with the intention of reading a little poetry every day, but I didn't keep it up. My recent brush with German poetry motivated me to move my poetry book to the kitchen, so I can tack it onto the end of my early morning French reading habit. The book is almost forty years old and in mint condition so I suspect the previous owner left it on the shelf rather than opening it, just like me.
John Donne's The Ecstasy has a great line:
Our eye beams twisted, and did thread
our eyes upon one double string