Multilingual Book Club 2 - The House on Mango Street
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Multilingual Book Club 2 - The House on Mango Street

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I partecipated at the first Multilingual Book Club and I will partecipate at the second too. For this one, I decided to read in English. The book I chose is The house on Mango Street by the Mexican-American Sandra Cisneros and tells the story of Esperanza, a little girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.

In the first Multilingual Book Club I read the book in Spanish, a “comfort zone” for me, because I understand Spanish well. So I met only few words or idiomatic expression that I didn’t know, and I fast finished the book. But English is not at all a comfort zone for me. In the past I tried to read books in this language and I never finished them , because too often I had to stop the reading to search words on the vocabulary and at the end I got annoyed and lose the taste of reading.

This book has very short chapters and a simple language (at least at first sight) so, this time, I commit myself to complete the book.

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