The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. In the meantime, for Fanda’s next Zoladdiction in 2014, I successfully read Nana all the way through. It took me a couple of years to track down a translation of Germinal that I liked. Second problem turned out to be the translation. I cannot do this on a laptop, phone or other device. A classic is something I usually like to underline, flipping to & from the notes at the back and rereading sections for clarity. I dislike reading screens for stories, except for short stories or novellas if I must. The first problem was reading a hefty classic on a device. I downloaded a copy of Germinal on my iPad…and struggled w i t h e v e r y s i n g l e w o r d. Not long after, in 2013, Fanda announced her first Zoladdiction. My curiousity was piqued when I heard about a French naturalism writer creating a series of stories about one family set during the Second French Empire. It was The Classics Club that first introduced me to Zola. The questions are designed to entice afficionados and those new-to-Zola as well. This year she has included a fun questionaire to take us away from our books! You don’t have to be reading a Zola this April to join in the tag either. Fanda is once again hosting Zoladdiction month throughout April.
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