• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Training for Translators

Online courses for translators and interpreters

  • Blog
  • Classes for translators
    • Consulting
  • Resources for translators
    • Translate HSFT!
  • About/Contact
    • Privacy Policy
  • Cart

Mar 22 2021

New podcast episode: What we’re reading

In this episode of Speaking of Translation, Eve and Corinne discuss a favorite topic among translators: books, and what we’re reading: what genres we enjoy, how we make time for reading, how we choose new books, what formats we enjoy and don’t enjoy reading or listening to, how we track what we read, and book recommendations for our listeners!

Websites mentioned in this episode:

  • Eve’s Global Reads book club
  • Real Simple magazine’s best books of 2020, and 2021
  • Letterfolk’s Book Passport (“another book in the books”)
  • Boulder Book Store (our local, independent bookstore!)
  • Librairie Gourmande, an all-cookbook bookstore in Paris
  • Peppercorn, a cooking store that sells cookbooks in Boulder, Colorado
  • The Tattered Cover, a large independent bookstore in Denver, Colorado
  • The Read Queen bookstore and cafe in Lafayette, Colorado
  • Articles on the closing of the iconic Paris bookstore Gibert Jeune, in English and in French

Our book recommendations (we are deliberately not including links, so that you can purchase them from the outlet of your choice!)

  • Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney’s Finest Natural History Painters by Vanessa Finney
  • Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  • My Life in France by Julia Child
  • Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
  • This Close to Okay: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith
  • It Would be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
  • French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter
  • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Humans, by Brandon Stanton
  • The Translator, by Nina Schuyler
  • Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • L’Arabe du futur/The Arab of the Future, by Riad Sattouf
  • Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light (Henry VIII trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
  • A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel
  • Icebound, by Andrea Pitzer
  • Good Words Fast, by Oliver Dirs
  • Pancakes in Paris, by Craig Carlson
  • All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

Listen on the audio player below, download the audio file here, or subscribe to Speaking of Translation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

Written by Corinne McKay · Categorized: Podcasts · Tagged: podcast for translators, Speaking of Translation, translation podcast

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Become a better translator: join our mailing list!

Learn from our blog:

  • May online courses
  • Interpreting from your A to your B language
  • Spanish Edition of Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies
  • New podcast episode: What we’re reading
  • April courses: early bird deadline coming up
  • Choosing an interpreter headset
  • Speaking of Translation: Self-care and mental health in the pandemic
  • Interview with Oliver Dirs, author of Good Words Fast

The original career how-to guide for freelance translators. Over 12,000 copies sold!

Search the Training for Translators blog

Copyright © 2021 · Training For Translators · Log in

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're OK with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. To view this website's privacy policy, click About>Privacy Policy. Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary

Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

SAVE & ACCEPT