What I’ve Been Trying To Read Lately
By Alina Popescu on Nov 19, 2007 in Book Reviews
Loredana has tagged me a while ago to tell you what books I’ve been reading. Given that I haven’t managed to finish a book in weeks (too busy, too tired and other excuses), I will tell you what books I’m trying to read these days 
I’ve read through about half of Mircea Cartarescu second book of the Orbitor(Glaring) series, Corpul (The Body). Amazing as the first one, however I feel I need to be less preoccupied when reading it, I need to free my mind first and apparently, I haven’t really managed to do so lately…
I’m also reading Joe Marconi’s Public Relations: The Complete Guide. Yes, work related, still a great read.
And the last one from my collection of hardly finished books, Elif Shafak’s novel The Bastard of Istanbul. Very catchy story, interesting style, but I’ll tell you more when I finish reading it.
There is something I have to say about the Romanian translation of this book. A little lesson for Ada Tanasa. In English, when you have a foreign word, like Turkis “dolma”, you can easily get a plural by adding an “s”: “dolmas”. When you get the book, written in English, and translate it into Romanian, you either cut the “s” all together, or use the Turkish plural, “dolmalar”. Maybe miss or misses Tanasa should have read a little about the Turkish language or culture before writing the book or asked for help, I am sure Polirom has Turkish-to-Romanian translators!
In the end, I have to tag some people…Mig would be the first, as I am really curious what she’s reading these days, Bro, to make him write on his blog and Safiya, to return a favor Of course, anyone feeling like sharing their reading list is welcome!
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Ohhhh… horror books. Stephen King Puls, Dan Brown Meteor (cool), and right now I am deep into King’s “The Stand”
And I read blogs. Many many many blogs. LOL
(does this have a time span? like in the last month? week?)
I have 4 ebooks waiting for me too - from this really special friend… Do you know who I am talking about?
Mihaela Lica | Nov 19, 2007 | Reply
Hi Mig, no time frame
Especially from me, as it now takes ages to finish a book 
enjoy!
Yeah, I have an idea
Alina Popescu | Nov 19, 2007 | Reply
First of all nice to have you back here. We’ve
missed you.
I will not post about the books I read, the wedding is very close and
I’ve got no time although I’d love to. I’ll only post something that I
remembered reading your advise to Ada Tanasa. A few weeks ago I bought
“De ce iubim femeile” in Spanish and I wanted to quit reading it when I
saw the word “canadiana” (parka jacket) translated as “canadiense”
(canadian). I read it all just to see if I found any other error in the
translation. I can’t say that I loved the book, it’s easy to read but
Cartarescu can do better.
Kisses. Will you come to Barcelona next month?
Sim | Nov 21, 2007 | Reply
I think I will take part!!
I found the language lesson really interesting, especially since I am doing a lot of translation work recently.
ali la loca | Nov 22, 2007 | Reply
Hi Sim, OMG, that’s really awful, the translator
did a really stinky job there!
Nope, unfortunately, you wouldn’t be there anyway when I wanted to come
and my budget shrank over night, I’ll tell you why on IM. Ali, hi, glad
you found my tip useful!
let me know when you finish the tag, I’d love to read it!
Alina Popescu | Nov 22, 2007 | Reply