First of many posts about France: The booklist

[magicicada]

Beauvoir: la force des chooses
Bujold: La Danse du Miroir
Dumas: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (I & II)
Hugo: Les Misérables (I & II)
Juland (ed): Petite anthologie de la poésie française
Laclos: Les Liaisons dangereuses
Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu
Rowling: Harry Potter et La Chambre Des Secrets, Harry Potter et le Prisonnier D'Azkaban
Verne: Cinq semaines en balloon, Voyage au centre de la terre

The Proust alone ought to keep me busy for a lifetime. Currently I'm reading Vol de Nuit by St-Exupéry. It is fairly short and simply written, but I'm still at only about 80% comprehension. For pleasure reading, I do not allow myself to stop and look up words because that is not pleasurable and I will stop reading the French books. Still, it does help and obsessive reading is how I got my ridiculous vocabulary in English. The English books are because it helps to know the plot already, although I am wary of bad translations.

Comments

[loucheroo.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooooo.....
I wish I were fluent enough to read the French copy ofLe Comte de Monte-Cristo that we have....

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

I bet you would be by the end :). I'll be working up to it. The Proust is actually written in a very fluid style which is what inspired me to attempt it.

[loucheroo.livejournal.com]

Let me know how it is *smile*

I fear I'm fluent enough to get by... barely... if I go to France but not much more than that.

[shlafe.livejournal.com]

Hey, welcome back, and happy reading!

And thanks for the postcard. :)