This summer leaves me little time to read with a growing list of books I’d love to read. Here is my short list. Small wonder they were all either written by speakers of other languages or by speakers attempting to learn other languages. Click on the highlighted words to read more about each book and/or author.
Dreaming in Hindi:Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hear an interview with Adichie here.
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
Hear an interview with Gappah here.
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language by Arika Okrent
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"He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes." -Barrow
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About the author
- morningstar
- When she's not caring for her husband and two children (and sometimes even when she is), she can be found reading "a novel."
1 comment:
I don't think the term "Mad Dreamers" in Okrent's book refers to advocates and users of Esperanto. Take a look at http://www.esperanto.net
Esperanto works! I’ve used it in speech and writing - and sung in it - in a dozen countries over recent years.
Indeed, the language has some remarkable practical benefits. Personally, I’ve made friends around the world through Esperanto that I would never have been able to communicate with otherwise. And then there’s the Pasporta Servo, which provides free lodging and local information to Esperanto-speaking travellers in over 90 countries.
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