Comments on: What to do with Marina http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/ For the love of language (and some fiber arts, too) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:18:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: J.T. Oldfield http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3393 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:53:30 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3393 I’m in agreement with those who said to donate it to the library. Native Spanish speakers in our country *tend* to be in lower income brackets, which need libraries the most. Sadly, many libraries lack foreign language books to serve the populations of non-English speakers (Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, etc).

]]> By: wordlily http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3392 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:23:43 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3392 I did ask her, yes; some of the above ideas were hers. She doesn’t have a strong preference about what exactly I should do with it, though.

]]> By: Valerie http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3389 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:09:37 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3389 Did you ask your sister what she thought you should do? If it were me, I probably would keep it until I was able to get an English-translated version. Kind of like a souvenir. And just because I love Zafon, too. After all, it’s just one book and doesn’t take up much space :-) . Then maybe I would give the Spanish language version away once I had the English version. I think eventually all his works will end up being translated, since his visibility is increasing!

]]> By: Nicole http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3375 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:28:29 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3375 I would probably donate it to the library. The spanish language collection never look that big or exciting.

]]> By: Jenny http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3374 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:40:31 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3374 I vote, learn Spanish! Definitely!

]]> By: Vasilly http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3370 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:17:48 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3370 I’ll probably donate it to my library especially if they don’t already have a copy.

]]> By: slgreatsuccess http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3369 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:23:55 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3369 Cover is nice! I wish I could read Spanish because the cover is enough to
draw me in!

]]> By: wordlily http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3368 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:55:13 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3368 I’d really like to read Ruiz Zafón’s earlier works, too! And I don’t want to have to wait until I’ve learned another language to enjoy them, either.

]]> By: J.S. Peyton http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3367 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:29 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3367 That absolutely sucks! Unless you really see yourself trying to learn Spanish so you can read this book, I say you might as well give it away. If you can’t enjoy it, then maybe someone else can. I think you should probably go with the blog giveaway first. That way, like you said, at least maybe you’ll at least get an English review out of it. If you don’t get any takers on the blog giveaway (which you could advertise on Twitter), then you can go the Bookmooch rout. You should definitely be able to find someone on there to take it.

Still, sorry to hear about this! Hopefully, plans are in the works to translate this into English soon. I’d read it!

]]> By: wordlily http://wordlily.com/2009/07/10/what-to-do-with-marina/#comment-3366 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:49:06 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-3366 Adding options to the list is always good! Which would you do?

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