Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge discussion

Read a translated book.

Battle Royale
The Last Wish (also being made into a TV show)
The Shadow of the Wind

Crime and Punishment

Just finished The Murmur Of Bees. Such s great book!

I’ll be reading The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch.

I just read The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg for this. I read her first book, The Ice Princess, earlier this year for the PopSugar Challenge prompt that required you to read a book set in Scandinavia. The entire series is set in Fjällbacka, Sweden—which I now want to visit (despite the small town's increasing murder rate. It's like the Cabot Cove of Sweden.)

I just read (and very much enjoyed) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori).

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho was originally Portuguese.

A Man Called Ove

I’m reading Love, Simon but in Spanish so technically counts??

Isla wrote: "I just read (and very much enjoyed) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)."

Isla, I also just read Convenience Store Woman! It was so much fun. I really enjoyed the super detailed descriptions of the store.

Nicole wrote: "I’ll be reading The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch."

That's a great suggestion. I just realized that I have it in my Kindle app.

I love the Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo. I may read the next one in the series (#7 for me) for this part of the challenge.

Michele wrote: "Nicole wrote: "I’ll be reading The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch."

That's a great suggestion. I just realized that I have it in my Kindle app."

I've read 4 (I think) in that series. Good choice!

I'm reading The Shadow of the Wind, been meaning to read it for years and now I finally am! It had better be worth the wait

I will be reading Zorba the Greek translated to English! Very excited since I really enjoying the different feeling sometimes the books give you when translated!

Finished Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women: Stories.

I just finished Sapphire Blue translated from German to English.