I love reading IMMs on the blogs, taking a look at the books they are planning to read and seeing my list becoming eternal, so I have decided to do the same in my blog 😉 .
I’m starting little by little, so today I will show you three ebooks I have in my kindle since a few weeks ago:
The one you love (Paul Pilkington): this novel has very good reviews and also very bad ones, but I wanted to give it a try since the synopsis caught my attention. The book was for a few days for free in amazon, also here in Spain. And today I have seen it is for free again, so you have no excuses!
The summer before the storm (Gabrielle Wills): this is also a book I saw in amazon and I thought it could be interesting: I love Canadian stories! I contacted with the author in order to ask her if she would be interested in providing a few copies to organize a joint reading in my Spanish blog, and she agreed! She is very kind and I’m looking forward to knowing what happened that summer when WWI begun. I will tell you soon.
Riversong (Tess Thompson): this is the book I’m currently reading. It was for free in amazon some weeks ago, and I saw it had a very high score, so I also wanted to give it a chance. The beginning is being shocking because the main character seems to be in trouble, but I can’t say anything else; just that I have applied for a blog tour and the next post will be referred to Tess Thompson 😉 .
As you see, amazon is a great source of readings if you want to learn a language; you have to spend some time searching for stories that might suit you, but it is cheap (or free!) and fast once you have decided, and the kindle dictionary helps you a lot when you are reading!
From Isi 
It’s good when you’ve heard both great and bad words about books – if you plan to review The One You Love I have to say I look forward to reading it 🙂 I have to agree, searching Amazon takes time, especially if looking for free books because all the genres are put together! When you look for books on your Kindle, do you get the choice between the Spanish and English version?
Yes, Charlie, I can buy everything you can buy, in English, Spanish, German or whatever! This is great because the books in English are usually cheaper than the translations, so you save money twice: one because you are buying an ebook and it is cheaper than a paper book and two because in English are cheaper too.
But I have to say, not all the books are translated into Spanish, so sometimes I don’t have any choice.
Isi:
hoy tu blog me aparece totalmente en inglés.
¿es parte del reto que tienes??? ¡vaya sorpresa!
Mi próxima lectura en inglés es: Tolstoy and the purple chair. Estos que mencionas aquí no los conocía 😉
un beso,
Ale.
Those free books on Amazon are great for learning a language better. Now I do hope they’re fun to read, too. I don’t know any of them.
Sometime I pick up a book with mixed reviews just to see if it’s as bad as people say 🙂 Usually, I’m pleasantly surprised!
Ale: jeje ya viste por qué fue.
Judith: I hope so! I always take a look at the comments and the score the book has, and the synopsis, of course, to see if I think I will like it. For the moment, Riversong is being very good.
Allison: well, if I think I can give them a try, I do it. And yes, it can be good or it can be bad, who knows? You have to read it!
I haven’t heard of any of these, hope they are enjoyable! Good tip about searching on Amazon for books in other languages – it sounds like it would be a good way for me to brush up on my French.
Marie: at least Riversong is being wonderful, but I still haven’t finished it 😉
Take a look in “other languages” section on Amazon, you will find a lot of interesting novels, not only classics. I always think that some of them will never be translated into my language, so I’m very lucky to read them!
I looooove how Amazon lets you read a sample of books before buying!!!!
Me too, Rebecca, and when you are reading in other language it also helps you to have an idea if you are capable of reading the book or not before buying it!