When I was very young, maybe nine or ten, I decided to read Huckleberry Finn<\/em>.\u00a0 By the time I finished the first few pages, I had asked my mom what so many words meant that she suggested maybe I should put the book aside and save it until I was a little older.\u00a0 The book I’m reading now, in Swedish, Anna, Hanna och Johanna,<\/em> makes me feel just like that, except that I despair of ever having the vocabulary to do more than muddle through with half an understanding.<\/p>\n In an interesting, but not altogether surprising coincidence (we have a history of this sort of thing, my mom and I), my mom bought the English translation of this book at a second-hand store on the very same day that I started reading it myself.\u00a0 I had never mentioned it to her, and I doubt she’d ever heard of the author before picking up the book.\u00a0 How weird is that?<\/p>\n I think I may ask her to send it to me when she’s finished, because even though I want to (and will) read it in the original Swedish, I’m curious about how they’ve translated it–the regional dialect, in particular–to English.\u00a0 Plus, a quick read-through in English could clue me in to all the important nuances I’m bound to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was very young, maybe nine or ten, I decided to read Huckleberry Finn.\u00a0 By the time I finished the first few pages, I had asked my mom what so many words meant that she suggested maybe I should put the book aside and save it until I was a little older.\u00a0 The book… Read More In over my head<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}