I hardly dare to review another Esperanto language book on my website, but this evening I finally got to the end of a novel I have unsuccessfully been trying to read for three months: “La dua invado de marsanoj” by Arkadij and Boris Strugackij. When I was going on holiday to Geneva in April, I asked my boyfriend if he had anything in Esperanto he could pack for me to read on the plane, and this was what he produced from his limited collection. I had high hopes for it at the beginning, because in my younger days I used to be rather a fan of sci-fi, but over the course of five days I managed to struggle through at best forty pages of it before giving it up as unreadable It languished on the desk in my bedroom for several months before this Sunday I felt bored and decided to pick it up once again. I don’t like a book to beat me, and this time I was determined to get to the end of it (more…)