This is fascinating. I should do something like this – I wonder what it would tell!

My allison logged her books into categories last year. Im intrigued by TRANSLATED WORKS category! Tell us more

@Kat: I was surprised I’d read as many men as I had.

@kathy b: This past year, both translated works were kids’ books: Bronze and Sunflower is a Chinese middle-grade novel by Cao Wenxuan and is about a girl whose father dies while at a re-education camp and then she goes across the river to live with a poor family, which includes a boy a few years older than she, who doesn’t talk. I hated (HATED) the ending of the book, but my interpretation of what happens in the final pages could be off, because lots of people loved it. The other book was a German YA novel, The Book Jumper, by Mechthild Gläser. It’s about a teen girl, who’s grown up in Germany but who’s visiting her Scottish grandmother for the first time, when she learns that she and the descendants from the other “elite” family on the sparsely populated island can “jump” into books and interact with the characters. Honestly, it wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be (it was fine, just not exceptional, which its tempting premise and gorgeous cover made me want it to be), and I’d recommend Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series instead for his take on the Book World.