Here are the books completed in August. A lot of these are part of the Gollancz SF or Fantasy Masterworks series, so there are a bunch of reviews here and elsewhere already posted or will be written in the very near future. Some are re-reads, but most are not. I believe four languages (English, Spanish, Serbian, Portuguese) were read this month, with at least one book for each language. And this is the infamous month of reviewing Goodkind, Stanek, and yaoi. Now for the reads:
259 David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (re-read; already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
260 Zoran Živković, Skrivena Kamera (Serbian; review in next month, I hope)
261 Zoran Živković, Cámera oculta (Spanish; see above)
262 Zoran Živković, Hidden Camera (re-read; see above)
263 Terry Goodkind, The Law of Nines (already reviewed)
264 Oliverio Girondo, En la Masmédula (Spanish; mindfuck poems)
265 Philip K. Dick, The Simulacra (already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
266 George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
267 Jack Vance, Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden (already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
268 Jack Vance, Lyonesse: The Green Pearl (see above)
269 Jack Vance, Lyonesse: Madouc (see above)
270 H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon (already reviewed)
271 Lucious Shepard, Life During Wartime (already reviewed)
272 Keith Roberts, Pavane (already reviewed)
273 Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (already reviewed)
274 Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club (already reviewed)
275 Yuiko Takamura, Caged Slave (already reviewed)
276 Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (already reviewed)
277 Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates (already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
278 Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods (re-read; already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
279 Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
280 Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark (review forthcoming here)
281 Robert Stanek, Keeper Martin's Tale (already reviewed)
282 Mary Robinette Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey (review in near future)
283 Fábio Fernandes, Os Dias da Peste (Portuguese; already reviewed)
284 Christopher Priest, Inverted World (already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
285 Gustav Meyrink, The Golem
286 Kazu Kibuishi, Flight: Volume 7 (very good graphic novel anthology)
287 Sherri Tepper, Beauty (re-read; already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
288 Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee (already reviewed)
289 John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting (already reviewed on SFF Masterworks blog)
290 Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden (review forthcoming here)
291 Walter M. Miller, Jr., Dark Benediction (review forthcoming on SFF Masterworks blog)
292 Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (review forthcoming here)
293 Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo (review forthcoming here)
In Progress:
Walter Tevis, Mockingbird
Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla (Spanish)
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2 comments:
What were you trying to discern in reading HIdden Camera three times in as many languages?
Translation qualities, how much emphasis was placed on certain words and if the mood shifted in the languages from how things were constructed. In Serbian and English, the adjectives are usually before the noun (although they do not have to be in Serbian; they can be almost anywhere in the sentence); in Spanish, it is noun then adjective. Sometimes that creates a different effect at the sentence level and as someone who's working toward becoming a freelance translator, this is very important material to study.
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