Greg's Reflections

Seta  (2008, 108 pages) is a quick, easy read: ideal for someone's first attempt to read an Italian novel. Hervé Joncour, a young man ...

I decided to abandon the popular Italian novel La forma dell'acqua  (first novel in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri)...

Despite being 250 years old, Voltaire's book Candide ou l'optimisme  was a delight to read, even at my level of French. It's a w...

Finishing Duolingo isn't enough; you want all the skills to be "gold," and you want them to stay  gold. In this post, I'l...

I finished Como Agua Para Chocolate  ("Like Water for Chocolate") this week, and enjoyed it a lot. Other than requiring the reader...

One of the challenges of reading in a foreign language is finding novels to read in the first place. You want something hard enough to chal...

This month, I finished reading the literary novel  Sostiene Pereira  (Antonio Tabucchi, 1993, 214 pp). It's a suitable novel for an inte...