WHAT AM I READING?

So I'm re-reading the LORD OF THE RINGS. But in French. Why? Because when you have learned / are learning a foreign language, it's really important to practice using it on pretty much a daily basis. Putting the sounds in it, learning new vocabulary by context, etc.

To date, I've already read LE HOBBIT and LA FRATERNITÉ DE L'ANNEAU. I read it aloud a little bit every day (to practice pronunciation and to put those sounds in my ears). According to my Kindle, I'm 93% of the way to the end. Somewhere around 30 pages to the end.

One of my strategies is to read in French books I'm rather familiar with in English. That way, I'm usually familiar with what's going on and can leverage context as a tool. I try to only look up words that repeat throughout and seem especially significant.

P.S. I'm also reading original works in French. In the last French class I took, we read ROBERT DES NOM PROPRE by Amélie Nothomb. I've sense read a few others -- STUPEURS ET TREMBLEMENTS and COSMÉTIQUE DE L'ENNEMI. I find her writing to be very much a part of the LITERATURE OF THE ABSURD.

FORMIDABLE!