2025 Reading Challenge discussion

HAVE BOOK, WILL TRAVEL
Duration: February 1 through February 29, 2020

Based on February's monthly theme of "Language," this challenge encourages all you armchair travelers to read works of fiction or non-fiction that have been translated from another language into your own.
Read books set anywhere; neither the settings, authors, no original language need be unique. The only restriction is that your book was originally written in another language.

For more information about this group's challenges, see the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread.

To join this challenge, please let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read. Happy trails!

This month's challenge was partly inspired by a challenge idea from Carmen.
Regina has volunteered to lead this challenge. Thanks, Regina!.

Hello everyone and welcome to the challenge!

Updating your progress
When posting your progress, please include your original (sign-up) message number plus the current progress using the format below:

Update to msg #xx: books read/books pledged

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don't delete your original sign-up post. Just update and let me know. Thanks!

Participants

book_bear (Rebecca) (msg 4) - 0/3
Janet (msg 24) - 1/3
Joelyn (msg 36) - 0/1
Lisa (msg 9) - 0/1
Lynn (msg 19) - 0/2
Nikki (msg 25) - 0/2
Pablo (msg 40) - 0/2
Sabah (msg 43) - 1/2
Suzanne (msg 34) - 0/10
Tasha (msg 12) - 0/1

Seasoned Travellers (completed)
Allie (msg 15) - 1/1
Catka (msg 17) - 6/5
Sue (msg 22) - 1/1
Mie (msg 20) - 6/5
SarahKat (msg 16) - 2/2
oshizu (msg 10) - 9/8
Regina (msg 7)- 8/8
Jessica (msg 21) - 3/3
Carmen (msg 13) - 18/18
Joanna (msg 11) - 1/1
Luci (msg 30) - 3/3
Lucie Renee (msg 23) - 1/1
Sarah (msg 42) - 1/1
Megan (msg 5) - 2/2
TerryJane (msg 32) - 12/12
Nicole (msg 26) - 10/20
Nancy Ann (msg 3) - 3/3
Yana (msg 28) 4/7
Jeanne (msg 37) - 4/5
Sonsoles (msg 6) - 2/3
Megan (msg 14) - 3/3

I am in for 3 books
Goal: 3/3 - COMPLETED

1- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - (French and German)
2- Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Anges Martin-Lugand -
(French)
3- Don't Worry, Life is Easy by Agnes Martin-Lugand - (French)

I plan on reading 3-5 books.

I’ll join in for 2 books!

1. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia - completed
2. Blue Flowers by Carola Saavedra - completed

2/2 - completed!

Hi! I'm in for 3 books

✓1. El pozo de la ascensión (Original: English - The Well of Ascension)
✓2. Vindicación de los derechos de la mujer (Original: English - Vindication of the Rightsof the Women)
3. El retrato de Dorian Gray (Original: English - The Picture of Dorian Gray)

8/8 completed
✅1. Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust - Italian
✅2. The Great Passage- Japanese
✅3. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Polish
✅4. Malice - Japanese
✅5. Borges and The Eternal Orangutans - Portuguese
✅6. Captain of the Sleepers - Spanish
✅7. Eden - Polish
✅8. The Brothers Karamazov - Russian

Rebecca, I've put you down for 3 books. Let me know if you want to set your goal at 5 or wait and see. Thanks.

I'll go with one book for this challenge. Thankyou, Regina :)

I am beyond excited about this challenge.
Please sign me up for 8 books, Regina, and thanks so much for leading!

Progress: 9/8

✔️1. The Three-Body Problem (Chinese, China)
✔️2. Deadline in Athens (Greek, Greece)
✔️3. Eve out of Her Ruins (French, Mauritius)
✔️4. 77 (Spanish, Argentina)
✔️5. Small Country (French, Burundi)
✔️6. Our Life in the Forest (French, France)
✔️7. The Lady Killer (Japanese, Japan)
✔️8. Unseen (Swedish, Sweden)
✔️9. La Bastarda (Spanish, Equatorial Guinea)

- - - -
My planning post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm in with these two one book:

1. Lagercrantz, David - The Girl Who Lived Twice (Hon som måste dö) (February 29, 2020)

Finished

Sign me up for one please

Hola, sign me up for 18, please!

PROGRESS: 18/18

❎1. French: El amante (Indochina, France)
❎2. Swedish: The Ice Princess (Sweden)
❎3. Japanese: The Devotion of Suspect X (Honshu/Japan)
❎4. Arabic: Telepathy (Sudan)
❎5. French: The Patience Stone (Afghanistan)
❎6. Indonesian: The Rainbow Troops (Belitong/Indonesia)
❎7. Chinese: Red Sorghum (China)
❎8. Portuguese: Borges and The Eternal Orangutans (Brazil, Argentina)
❎9. Homeric Greek: Odisea
❎10. Icelandic: Jar City (Iceland)
❎11. Russian: Crimen y castigo (Russia)
❎12. German: El perfume: Historia de un asesino (France)
❎13. Hindi: The blue lake & other stories (South Africa, India, Pakistan)
❎14. Bengali: He (India)
❎15. English: La ciudad y la ciudad
❎16. Spanish: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Uruguayan author)
❎17. Italian: El péndulo de Foucault (Italy, France, Brazil, Germany, Portugal)
❎18. Danish: The Marco Effect (Cameroon, Denmark, Italy, Curaçao, and Venezuela)

Sign me up for three please.

Edit March 1: 3/3 read

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle by Monique Proulx

Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan

I'll join with one book, please.

Japanese: The Housekeeper and the Professor completed 02/18/20, 5 stars. Such a lovely tender book.

I'll join for 2

Les Miserables... hoping I can finish 45 more hours of audio by the end of February.

And another (shorter) one TBD.

Hello, sign me up for 5 please
Progress: 6/5

✔️ 1. Podivné počasí v Tokiu by Hiromi Kawakami original language Japanese, translation to Czech
✔️ 2. Jane Austen doma (Jane Austen at Home) by Lucy Worsley original language English, translation to Slovak (not particularly good one though, unfortunately)
✔️ 3. Osudy a běsy (Fates and Furies) by Lauren Groff original language English, translation to Czech
✔️ 4. Listopadoví motýli (Butterflies in November) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir original language Icelandic, translation to Czech
✔️ 5. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Russian original, English translation
✔️ 6. Chlapec na vrchole hory (The Boy at the Top of the Mountain) by John Boyne English original, Slovak translation

Updated to here. Welcome everyone!

I’ll sign up for 2 for now! EPIC FAIL! I was not able to get any translated books read this month. But that's okay... :)

Argghhh! None of the books I am reading in February is translated. And I have no extra time to read other books, so I don't think I'll be finishing this monthly challenge...but that's okay. Onward and upward!

If I can possibly squeeze it in, I will read Us Against You since I love all his other books, own this, and really want to get it read this year! We'll see...

Hi Regina, thanks for leading 🤗 Please sign me up for 5.

6/5 - COMPLETE ✔️

All read in Danish:
📗 Brobyggerne (SWE)
📗 Voices in Summer (ENG)
📗 The Snow Child (ENG)
📗 Small Great Things (ENG)
📗 The Time Paradox (ENG)
📗 The Red Pavilion (ENG)

HAVE BOOK, WILL TRAVEL
Duration: February 1 through February 29, 2020
Progress: 3/3 Completed

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude (2/13/20)
2. Your Perfect Year (2/14/20)
3. Anna Karenina (2/21/20)

FINISHED

My goal is one book.

1/1

√The Boy Between Worlds by Annejet van der Zijl (2/15/20)

Updated

1/1

I will read 1 book for this challenge.

Us Against You by Fredrick Backman. Original title is "Vit Mot Er". Swedish, I presume.

Finished "Us Against You". I can't wait for Fredrick Backman's next book.

I will join with a goal of three.

1/3
Five Weeks in a Balloon 2/22/20

I would like to join for 2 books please!

Progress: 0/2

1. Inkheart
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I'm in for 20!

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 2—Battle Tendency, Vol. 2 (Original: Japanese)
What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Volume 1 (Original: Japanese)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 2—Battle Tendency, Vol. 3 (Original: Japanese)
Death Note, Vol. 13: How to Read (Original: Japanese)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 2—Battle Tendency, Vol. 4 (Original: Japanese)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3—Stardust Crusaders, Vol. 1 (Original: Japanese)
Kiss of the Rose Princess, Vol. 9 (Original: Japanese)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3—Stardust Crusaders, Vol. 2 (Original: Japanese)
Boruto, Vol. 5: Naruto Next Generations (Original: Japanese)
Food Wars!, Vol. 1 (Original: Japanese)

10/20

Welcome to all the newcomers!

I'm excited to get started tomorrow. I hope everyone has a fantastic reading month.

I'm in for 7 books:
4/7 books

1. Батько Вепр (Hogfather): 408
2. Кладовище домашніх тварин (Pet Sematary)
3. Раніше ніж їх повісять (Before They're Hanged)
4. Хитрости Локка Ламоры (The Lies of Locke Lamora)
5. Дюна (Dune)
6. Крадійка Книжок (The Book Thief)
7. Нічний Цирк (The Night Circus): 480
8. Різдвозавр (The Christmasaurus): 384
9. Прелюдии и ноктюрны (The Sandman: Book 1): 272

Welcome, Yana!

Hi, I'd like to sign up for 3 books, please!

3/3
Challenge completed 28/2

1. The Two Towers (English > Spanish)
2. The Colour of Magic (English > Spanish)
3. Where the Crawdads Sing (English > Spanish)

Welcome Luci!

HAVE BOOK, WILL TRAVEL - Monthly Challenge
Duration: February 1-29, 2020
Progress: 12/12 -- COMPLETE

✈️ Confessions Japanese
✈️ Audition Japanese
✈️ Vipers' Tangle French
✈️ The Master and Margarita Russian
✈️ The Phantom of the Opera French
✈️ The Neverending Story German
✈️ Us Against You Swedish
✈️ All Quiet on the Western Front German
✈️ We Russian
✈️ The Woman on the Stairs German
✈️ The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism Japanese
✈️ The Golden Yarn German

Welcome to the challenge, TerryJane! You have some interesting books on your list. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of my favorites.

2020 Reading Challenge
February - Have Book, Will Travel
Duration: February 1 through February 29, 2020

Progress: 1 out of 10

Based on February's monthly theme of "Language," this challenge encourages all you armchair travelers to read works of fiction or non-fiction that have been translated from another language into your own.

Read books set anywhere; neither the settings, authors, no original language need be unique. The only restriction is that your book was originally written in another language.

For more information about this group's challenges, see the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread.

To join this challenge, please let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read. Happy trails!

Books Translated to English
1. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald - ***** - 2/7/2020 - 394 Pages), Alice Menzies (Translator)
2. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
3. The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) by Jonas Jonasson
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
6. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
7. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
8. The Hummingbird's Daughter (The Hummingbird's Daughter) by Luis Alberto Urrea
9. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
10. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

Hi Suzanne and welcome to the challenge!

I want to join the Have Book, Will Travel February Challenge with hopes of reading 1 book translated from another language.

~Duration: 02-01-2020--02-29-2020
Progress: 0/1 book read~

I’ll try 5:

Tolkien: Roverandom (English —> German) - ✅ 5 stars

Marie Kondo: Magic cleaning 1 (Japanese —> German) - ✅ 3 stars

Giles Foden: Turbulence —> Die Geometrie der Wolken (English —> German) - ✅ 5 stars

George Orwell: Animal Farm —> Farm der Tiere (English —> German)

Paolo Coelho: O caminho do arco —> Der Weg des Bogens (Portugese —> German) - ✅ 2 stars

So far 4/5 completed

Update to message #13

PROGRESS: 1/18

Bengali into English: He by Rabindranath Tagore

Original title: সে
Translator: Aparna Chaudhuri
Set in: India

Welcome Joelyn and Jeanne!

Congrats to Carmen for logging the first completed book. :)

Welcome Pablo!

I am in for 1 books

1/1-COMPLETED

1)The Eight Strokes of the Clock(Original: French-Les huit coups de l'horloge)(16/2/20)

I’m in for 2 books

Progress: 1/2

1. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - read in English / originally published in Swedish
2.

Welcome Sarah and Sabah!

Update to message #13

PROGRESS: 2/18

German into Spanish: El perfume: Historia de un asesino by Patrick Süskind

Original title: Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders
Translator: Pilar Giralt Gorina
Set in: France

Weekly update to msg #10

Progress: 4/8

1. The Three-Body Problem (Chinese, China)
2. Deadline in Athens (Greek, Greece)
3. Eve out of Her Ruins (French, Mauritius)
4. 77 (Spanish, Argentina)

4/8 message 7

1. Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust - Italian
2. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Polish
3. Malice - Japanese
4. The Great Passage - Japanese
5. Borges and The Eternal Orangutans - Portuguese

Weekly update msg 20: 2/5 🤗

Updated message #30

2/3

Update to message #13

PROGRESS: 3/18

Japanese into English: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Original Title: 容疑者Xの献身 [Yōgi-sha X no Kenshin]
Translator: Alexander O. Smith
Set in: Honshu (Japan)

Updated to here. Great progress Carmen, Luci, Mie, and oshizu!