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.
Your writing is clear and well ordered; I think you'll be able to do this. I think I have weaker Chinese than you do English, and I'm about to plow through a pretty daunting book, so I know the feeling. Let's stick to it- it's going to hurt a bit, but success will be sweet. I hope.
Hi Guilia! I really like to read which books others are going to read. For myself, I still need to choose one...
@Anthony Perna @Linda @Caro Thanks for your corrections.
@Anthony Perna Let's try our best! 💪
@Linda Yes, it is interesting. Did you decide in which language are you going to read?