~*~Welcome to the Literature in Translation Swap~*~

Rules:
1. You have 12 hours to make your turn or else you get bumped to the bottom (time keeping doesn't start until Friday)
2. You must send your reveal out to at least one other person. Please give the Bookcrossing URL and the language your book has been translated from!


Book held
(# steals - max 5)
Book revealed

Moves:
Stellarv asks .... to reveal ....

1. Stellarv ~ (~); ~
2. Morsie ~ (~); ~
3. Azuki ~ (~); ~
4. Geisha ~ (~); ~
5. Bluecat ~ (~); ~
6. Elsi ~ (~); ~
7. Ace ~ (~); ~
8. Lauren ~ (~); ~
9. MsJoanna ~ (~); ~


Stellarv - please start us off! Who would you like to reveal??

I guess I'd better pull together my reveal info :)

Oh no - I just read Lauren's text and I forgot to add the language the book was translated from! :rolleyes: Well, I'll just have to add that later and who knows - maybe I get to reveal myself...

Oooooooooops, I forgot too. :whistle:

Let me start us off by asking Bluecat07 to reveal! :)

Bluecat's reveal is: Empire of Dragons by Valerio Massimo Manfredi



Synopsis
The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour the Emperor dies, but his guards make a daring escape lead by the heroic and enigmatic chief, Marcus Metellus Aquila. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home to reconquest his throne from his mortal enemy, a eunuch named Wei. Thus begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they journey to China. There they will discover that they aren't the first of their kind to arrive in China: they were preceded centuries before by the survivors of the 'lost legion'.

~*~Welcome to the Literature in Translation Swap~*~

Rules:
1. You have 12 hours to make your turn or else you get bumped to the bottom (time keeping doesn't start until Friday)
2. You must send your reveal out to at least one other person. Please give the Bookcrossing URL and the language your book has been translated from!


Book held
(# steals - max 5)
Book revealed

Moves:
Stellarv asks .... to reveal ....

1. Stellarv Empire of Dragons (~); ~
2. Morsie ~ (~); ~
3. Azuki ~ (~); ~
4. Geisha ~ (~); ~
5. Bluecat ~ (~); Empire of Dragons
6. Elsi ~ (~); ~
7. Ace ~ (~); ~
8. Lauren ~ (~); ~
9. MsJoanna ~ (~); ~


Morsie! Would you like a reveal?? or would you like to steal??

Bluecat did have an image but it isn't working and I don't have the time right now to try to fix it

Drats! Last! Guess I'll have lots to choose from :ph34r:

Well it's not a requirement ;)
I just think it's something we would all be interested in!

I promise to tell mine after it's revealed...

If I was to guess from which language was Bluecat's book translated, I'd guess Italian... :wink:

I just looked it up and you are right!

When you get a chance could you please post the Bookcrossing URL in your post in the reveal thread?

That way I don't need to look through this thread when the swap is finished to try and find it.

Wow, I got revealed already?! :bananadance:

Yes, it is translated from Italian. I tried to do the image like elsi explained to me in the last swap but I must have done something wrong? :huh:

Will now go to the reveal threat and put in my reveal plus bookcrossing link...

The whole guy's name is an Italian cliché! Loved it! :rofl:

Girls, I'm leaving work and going home to check in again before sleeping. I'm not leaving any moves since I'll be here again in 2h max.

See you later! :wave:

Have fun at work.

Methinks I'm going to have dinner soon :)

I'll go offline now. I got a whole box of books from my sister today for BC purposes and I just registered them. Now I will go to our hobby room and will happily put them in the shelves... :D

Then off to :reading: and :sleep:

I won't leave moves as I don't know what to do. But I will be back around 8.30 a.m. my time... :wave:

Bluecat, had a look at it and it looks fine. Don't know what is wrong :shrug:

am off to play more bridge. We did very well yesterday and today. I get a prize which I should go get.

:peek:

At home! I guess we won't have much activity from now on, but I'll check every now and then before going to bed.

I'd like AZUKI to reveal

It looks like she's offline now
but I just check my inbox and she's sent me her reveal :)

Ooooo...good book! I really enjoyed that one.

~*~Welcome to the Literature in Translation Swap~*~

Rules:
1. You have 12 hours to make your turn or else you get bumped to the bottom (time keeping doesn't start until Friday)
2. You must send your reveal out to at least one other person. Please give the Bookcrossing URL and the language your book has been translated from!


Book held
(# steals - max 5)
Book revealed

Moves:
Stellarv asks Bluecat to reveal 'Empire of Dragons'
Morsie asks Azuki to reveal 'Perfume'

1. Stellarv Empire of Dragons (~); ~
2. Morsie Perfume (~); ~
3. Azuki ~ (~); Perfume
4. Geisha ~ (~); ~
5. Bluecat ~ (~); Empire of Dragons
6. Elsi ~ (~); ~
7. Ace ~ (~); ~
8. Lauren ~ (~); ~
9. MsJoanna ~ (~); ~


Azuki! Would you like a reveal?? or would you like to steal??

Wow! moving fast. I'm preparing my reveal to mail out right now.

This book is amazing!!!!

Translated from German I think?

Oh, crap...just realized I sent out my reveal without the link to the book... :duh:

I'm just too tired to do it all over again tonight. I'll provide it when I'm revealed, if that's okay with everyone.

Well... Going off to :reading: and :sleep:

See you tomorrow! :wave:

Left moves in my signature

I'll be back around 9 am EDT

Wow you guys are jumping the gun! I would like MsJoanna's reveal please.

Night all. I left no moves, but it's early still.

:zzz: time for me! :wave:

Good morning :wave:

msjoanna's reveal:

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche (translated from French)



From Publishers Weekly
Bernard Valcourt is a Canadian journalist in Rwanda planning a film on the local AIDS epidemic when he falls in love with Gentille, a Tutsi who works at his hotel at the time of the Hutu-led genocides. Chronicling the days of the government-sponsored atrocities, Courtemanche's novel is powerful in its ability to remind us how much the myth of race has done to divide and destroy the human species in the past hundred years. At the same time, however, it strains to position itself as a sort of neo-existentialist tome, quoting Camus and echoing The Plague. Valcourt describes himself without irony as "sophisticated... an enlightened humanist," and yet his childish self-pity and bitter refusal to accept life's harsh realities are less the trappings of a great intellectual than the alcoholic he obviously is. From the swimming pool terrace of the Hotel des Mille-Collines in Kigali, he observes the rapidly deteriorating situation, "rather like a buzzard on a branch... waiting for a scrap of life to excite him." His supposedly spiritual love for Gentille is intended to redeem him, but it most often takes the form of a rhapsody over her "perfect" body. The Rwanda painted by Courtemanche (a Canadian journalist himself) is a country bloodied by ignorance, hatred, sexual obsession and lust for power, as terrifying and darkly obscene as anything imaginable. Tragic and deeply touching at turns (and illuminating from an historical perspective), the novel is nevertheless cheapened by Valcourt's muddled sentimentalizing and adolescent grandiloquence. As Einstein said, everything is either meaningless or miraculous. Most often it's romantics who, becoming cynics, embrace the former.
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I won this from rootmartin in the Best of 2007 swap. I'm really looking forward to reading it, but I'd like to note that it's still TBR. I estimate mailing at the beginning of July. Also, I'll note that the hotel described in the title of this book is the same hotel as that featured in An Ordinary Man and the movie Hotel Rwanda (though this book is fiction, whereas An Ordinary Man is a nonfiction autobiography).

~*~Welcome to the Literature in Translation Swap~*~

Rules:
1. You have 12 hours to make your turn or else you get bumped to the bottom (time keeping doesn't start until Friday)
2. You must send your reveal out to at least one other person. Please give the Bookcrossing URL and the language your book has been translated from!


Book held
(# steals - max 5)
Book revealed

Moves:
Stellarv asks Bluecat to reveal 'Empire of Dragons'
Morsie asks Azuki to reveal 'Perfume'
Azuki asks MsJoanna to reveal 'A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali'

1. Stellarv Empire of Dragons (~); ~
2. Morsie Perfume (~); ~
3. Azuki A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (~); Perfume
4. Geisha ~ (~); ~
5. Bluecat ~ (~); Empire of Dragons
6. Elsi ~ (~); ~
7. Ace ~ (~); ~
8. Lauren ~ (~); ~
9. MsJoanna ~ (~); A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali


Geisha! Would you like a reveal?? or would you like to steal??

Yes, it is from German. It was quite popular here, too - especially when the movie came out. I always thought it would be kind of creepy so I decided not too read it. I am easily scared! :P

Hi guys. I did not know the original language of Perfume was German.
I have been thinking of trying to read a book in German plus Perfume is a book I have wanted to read.
What is the name in German blue?
Das parfum?

I would be so proud of myself if I could read a German book.

Das Parfum, that's right. I think I still have it somewhere in German. I could RABCK it to you if you want?

Really?
I would love it.
I really think I can read German to.
A few weeks ago I read a German article and realised I did understand almost all of it.

Thank you so much blue. If you can't find it, well I am sure I will get a copy one day. :kiss:

Are there more great German books you would recommend?

Mh, I'd have to think about that. I don't read many German authors, mostly English-speaking or Swedish so I have to think about authors other than the classics you have to read for school and who are boring!

As you like chicklit - I might send you are German one for you to try. Although the German chicklit is not as good as the British or American ones IMO but maybe that is because the setting is not as hip as London or New York City and German chicklit authors tend to portrait older and not so cool women...

:rofl: Sorry I am pissing my pants reading your comment about German chick lit. :rofl:

Maybe chick lit will be easier tor ead for me? Or is Das parfum so good you can't stop reading?

That is how I learned to read English books.
I chose for my first book a true crime I really really wanted to read.
There are not manye translated TC books here in The Netherlands.

When did you start to read English?

I started way too late. but I am glad that Rowena (my daughter) started at age 13.

Can't really say anything about The Parfum because I haven't read it. But friends liked it. Chicklit might be easier to read but then again it depends if you like the book or the author. If you don't like it it will be hard to continue.

Well, I started learning English in 5th grade and went on my first English course with stay in a host family (in Brighton) when I was 14. When I was 16 (in 11th grade) I went to an American highschool in Colorado for half a year and stayed with two horrible host families. I guess that is how you grow up fast! :P

In 12th and 13th grade I was an English major and then I studied History, English and Scandinavian studies for six years until 2004. During that time I attended English courses in Ireland and England, went to England some times and stayed in Stockholm to study for a term. That way I got to speak quite a lot of English and I always did tutoring. After my studies I did an internship at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City for 6 weeks. Now I am teaching English...

So that is my story. I have started reading English in school (easy readers) but went to the library to borrow Nancy Drew mysteries and Enid Blyton books and the like in my teens. Then I just started reading novels when I was in Colorado and as I was only speaking and reading and writing English all day it went well. After that I never stopped reading in English. I read it as fast as German. But speaking or writing is a different matter. As I don't get the chance to talk English a lot my active vocabulary isn't as good as my passive one. But I always try to improve! And teaching helps to keep updated... :D