Postby tastyonions » Mon May 21, 2018 12:51 pm
Still chugging along! A couple things that happened since I last wrote here:
1. I created an Italian meetup group. One already existed in my city but it was annoying me because the organizers never attended it and it seemed to attract a lot of flaky people who would always say they were coming and then not be there. We've had two meetups so far and they went great.
2. After repeated frustrations with overseas shipping, I gave up and decided to try doing most of my foreign-language reading on the Kindle. It does have the advantage of being significantly cheaper and it is a pretty nice reading experience, even if it will always lack that tactile pleasure of a paper book.
Books I have read on the Kindle so far:
El nuevo paraíso de los tontos (Hernán Casciari): Short stories and commentaries mostly about various Internet phenomena. Funny stuff.
Niente è come te (Sara Rattaro): An Italian father has his daughter taken from him by his Danish wife and doesn't see her for ten years, then must try to re-establish a relationship with her after his wife's death in an accident.
Frauen dürfen hier nicht träumen (Rana Ahmad): A Syrian women living in Saudi Arabia flees to Germany after her departure from Islam puts her life in danger.
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