Date Read: July 12 Author: Deborah Feldman Genre: Autobiography Rating: 5/5 Born into the strictly religious sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up surrounded by rules and customs from what she could wear to whom she was allowed to speak to. After marrying and giving birth to a son as a teenager, Deborah decidesContinue reading “Unorthodox”
Category Archives: Translated
The Trap
Date Read: July 11 Author: Melanie Raabe Genre: Thriller Original Language: German Rating: 2/5 I was really excited by the premise of this book: an author who witnessed her sister’s murder writes a book to trap the murderer. Once I started reading, I discovered the actual book’s writing to be clunky, and the interjections ofContinue reading “The Trap”
Amatka
Date Read: May 13 Author: Karin Tidbeck Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 Everything must be named, or else it loses its shape. Every morning, Vanja names her clothes: shoes, pants, shirt. Buildings are labeled and named when citizens walk past. Yet when Vanja arrives in one of the other colonies of her planet, she discoversContinue reading “Amatka”
Second Sister
Date Read: May 1 Author: Chan Ho-Kei Genre: Mystery Rating: 4/5 When Siu-Man commits suicide, her older sister Nga-Yee knows that there’s more to the story. She recruits N, a hacker, to find out the truth, and stumbles across more than she bargained for in the process. The story is fast-paced once it gets started,Continue reading “Second Sister”
Paradiso
Date Read: April 29 Author: Dante Alighieri Genre: Classics This is the third and final book of the Divine Comedy, preceded by Inferno and Purgatorio. I found Paradiso a little boring, particularly in comparison to the depictions of hell and purgatory in the other two parts of the Divine Comedy. In Paradiso everything is perfect,Continue reading “Paradiso”
Purgatorio
Date Read: April 20 Author: Dante Alighieri Genre: Classics Another book for English class. Dante’s Divine Comedy continues, as Dante moves from Inferno to purgatory. While Inferno may be more widely known than Purgatorio, I still enjoyed reading Dante’s depiction of purgatory.
Inferno
Date Read: April 15 Author: Dante Alighieri Genre: Classics In the English class I am taking, we are reading the entirety of the Divine Comedy. I hadn’t ever read Inferno before, and the poetry was more beautiful than I expected. Overall, the Inferno was better than I expected it to be, and I am lookingContinue reading “Inferno”
Harry Potter à L’école des Sorciers
Date Read: April 13 Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 This is, of course, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but I was rereading it and so I decided to read it in French. It was just how I imagined it, and it was funnier rereading it and looking at the French names ofContinue reading “Harry Potter à L’école des Sorciers”
The Conference of the Birds
Date Read: March 30 Author: Farid Attar Rating: 3/5 This is another book for one of my classes, and I just don’t like it as much as I’ve enjoyed other books. I don’t really like poetry, so I doubt I would have picked it up if not for my class.
The Holy Bible
Date Read: March 26 Genre: School This was one of the required texts for my English course.
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 