Good afternoon, how are you?
I'm quite fine despite the fact that some things came up during the week end. But I'm not here to talk about this.
I finally read my first novel in English and I want to try to talk about it. :)
Usually when I write about books on my Italian blog, I put also informations and synopsis about it before my comment, so I'll do the same thing here too. Happy reading!
INFO
Title: Cinder
Series: The Lunar Chronicles # 1
Author: Marissa Meyer
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 387
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ldt
Year: 2012
Price: £ 6.99
SYNOPSIS
A forbidden romance. A deadly plague. Earth's
fate hinges on one girl ...CINDER, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is
also a cyborg. But when her life becomes entwined with the handsome
Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the centre of a violent struggle
between the desires of an evil queen - and a dangerous temptation.
MY RATE: ★★★★★★
Hi there!
How are you today? I'm quite fine if I don't pay too much attention to my neck ache. But I'm not here to talk about this.
I finally decided to face my fears of starting reading a book in English just by doing it. I know, that's what you always have to do when you want to overcome a fear or something similar, but if you don't have self-esteem like me, the decision can be quite difficult.
Anyhow, I have done it starting Cinder by Marissa Meyer. I can't say that I understand every single word that I find but at least I can understand what I read, even if I check some unknown words on the dictionary. Despite that I still have some difficulties to get into the story but it's only a matter of time, I'm sure of it.
In my shelf I have a lot of books and half-a-score of them are in English. Despite that I've never tried to pick one of those titles and at least give it a try, mostly because I've never thought that I would be capable of understand what I read or something completely different like talking via Skype with a motherlanguage.
