'nother Fic Search - and a Spanish Novel search

[kennahijja]

Apologies for spamming you madly with search posts today - I swear my brain is about as effective as a damaged sieve. A week or so ago, I *think* someone on my f-list recced a Harry/Draco fic titled 'Fairplay' (romance/humour between R and NC-17). At least I hope it wasn't a newsletter... I'd so love to find the author and link!

As for the second thing... Do I have any (native) Spanish speakers on my f-list?

If I have, do you by any chance know one or two utterly trivial (trashy, cliched) Spanish romance novel, preferrably on a historical theme, you could rec me, or give me author and title for? Because my mom's been learning Spanish for a long time, and I'd really like to give her a book for Christmas, but it should not be too challenging, and a genre she enjoys. Isabel Allende did not quite do the trick (I ended up reading around in it more than she...). Any ideas? Translations *into* Spanish would be fine as well...

Comments

[captainjames.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* Native Spanish speaker here! Alas, I don't know many novels of the "trashy/cliched" kind. None easy, either. And I haven't read much in Spanish this year.

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I've been of no help... :(

But what I can say is, translations of recent novels tend to be much easier than translations of older works, and usually easier than works written directly in Spanish as well.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

No problem - I'd have much more luck with finding translations *into* German myself - trashy romance seems to be an English-speaking venue :).

[captainjames.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now that I think of it, all trashy romance novels I've seen were translations from English. I'm sure they exist in every language, though, just not as many.