Happy St George's day
Apr. 23rd, 2010 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livI'm not really interested in celebrating a saint's day (not being Christian), nor in celebrating Englishness (not being that sort of patriot), nor in dragon-slaying (as I generally find myself on the side of the dragon). However, I kind of like the idea of the Catalan version where people give eachother books.
So I propose a game: comment and recommend me a book, and I'll rec you something in return. If I don't know anything about you, I'll suggest something that I really like, and which I generally find isn't well known. And I'll keep going until I find something new to you, if necessary. You can give me a hint of the sort of books you prefer if you want to, but it's not required; it might be a more fun game if I have to guess based on my judgement of your character.
I have a comprehensive list of everything I've read in the last seven years, in case you find it hard to know where to start, but you obviously don't have to read through all that.
So I propose a game: comment and recommend me a book, and I'll rec you something in return. If I don't know anything about you, I'll suggest something that I really like, and which I generally find isn't well known. And I'll keep going until I find something new to you, if necessary. You can give me a hint of the sort of books you prefer if you want to, but it's not required; it might be a more fun game if I have to guess based on my judgement of your character.
I have a comprehensive list of everything I've read in the last seven years, in case you find it hard to know where to start, but you obviously don't have to read through all that.
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Date: 2010-04-23 03:17 pm (UTC)Going by some of the incredibly wonderful and exciting books you've sent me, hmm. Have you read Salman Rushdie's less well known The ground beneath her feet? It's not as magic realist as Midnight's children, but it is somewhat so, and it's also a modern retelling of the Orpheus myth except recast in an Indian context. I like it very much indeed.
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Date: 2010-04-23 03:55 pm (UTC)Nah, I'm here on a grant (and to get my spanish up to C2) and I'll relocated to Madrid in autumn to do a master in contemporary history while finishing my dissertation (diss due in 14 months, my MA will last for 2 years). Basically I realised that I didn't have any perspective in Austria, didn't want to relocate to Germany, so the choice was between England and Spain, and while I've only had good experiences with Leeds and the LSE, I wanted something --- I've never done before. (Also I realised that if I wouldn't do this - learning spanish, relocating - now, I wouldn't do it at all.) /tl:dr
Huh, I started the ground benath her feet before I went to Spain but didn't take it with me ... as I'm limiting myself to reading stuff in spanish right now, I'll look around for a translation!
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Date: 2010-04-24 11:05 am (UTC)If you'd already started the Rushdie it was a good guess of what you might like, but less helpful in terms of recommending new things. I don't think I can rec anything originally published in Spanish, because I can't think of anything at all I've read in that category, apart from really obvious things like Marquez.