Of course, if you knew how long this took me you might be saying why is he bragging. I started the first of this year and just finished up the 1st of July. “What are you bragging about, for gawd’s sake?” you grumble. Legitimate question, I suppose.
I just finished reading The Hobbit and all three volumes of the Lord of Rings… in Spanish.
Just to list a few
I have read a fair number of novels in Spanish. For instance, I have read three of Gabriel Garcia Máquez’s shorter novels in his native language. Isabel Allende’s novel, La casa de los espíritus. One very strange novel by Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo. The novel is supposedly very Mexican, whatever that means. Two novels that I have been told every Filipino school child reads by José Rizal, Noli me tangere and El filibusterismo . Not that they are books for children, Continue reading “Bragging on myself a little”