Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[Eva]

Update message 299:

Read 10/12
Sweden: Let the Right One In
France: Fast ganz die Deine
Poland:Within These Walls
Japan: Revenge

[Ilona]

Yaara wrote: "update msg 743.
USA - Stuck-Up Suit

Is Westeros a country if I wanna read Game of Thrones next?"

Yaara, George RR Martin is from the USA.
But if you list the books by the place where they take place, I guess you have to be a bit creative regarding fantasy books. Maybe you can choose a country that most resembles Westeros?

(view spoiler)[ It's a bit like Europe in the middle ages, except for dragons and white walkers of course ;) (hide spoiler)]

Or you can just add it as Westeros.

[Cassandra]

Ilona, that's a great answer! Thank you. :)

[Diana]

update:

12/12

11. Australia: Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
12. Norway: Appelsinpiken by Jostein Gaarder

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update: I'm at 22/25 for Around the World in Books. I had initially set my goal at 20, but I read authors from several countries in July and surpassed that goal, so I'm bumping it up to 25.

[Eggp]

July update: Finished, but I'm going to carry on counting without a specific number in mind.
Goal: 13/12, 108.33%

11. South Africa: The Fellowship of the Ring - 12 Jul 2016, 3/5
12. Sweden: The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4) - 16 Jul 2016, 2/5
13. Egypt: Nexus (Nexus, #1) - 25 Jul 2016, 2/5

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13 with Czech Republic - Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

22/20

[Cassandra]

Congratulations to all four of you for meeting and exceeding your challenges! Awesome job. :)

[Chloé]

5/10
France: Mauprat ⭐⭐⭐
Canada: Je serai un territoire fier et tu déposeras tes meubles⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Nigeria: Nous sommes tous des féministes⭐⭐⭐⭐
Poland: Blood of Elves⭐⭐⭐⭐
USA: In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Geri]

Update #270
I have completed the challenge a long time ago but I forgot to update.
10/10

[Sherry]

Updated: COMPLETED!!

7/7 Completed ✔

I decided on 7 Continents of the World:
1. North America : USA- I'll Never Let You Go by Mary Burton [Read 1/12/2016]
2. South America : BRAZIL- Wolf Wanted by Ana Maria Machado [Read 8/8/2016]
3. Africa : ZIMBABWE- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins [Read 3/7/2016]
4. Europe : LONDON- The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro [Read 1/8/2016]
5. Asia : CHINA- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo [Read 5/19/2016]
6. Middle East : PALESTINE- Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World by Randa Jarrar [Read 8/3/2016]
7. Australia : NEW ZEALAND (Oceania)- Shards of Hope (Psy-Changeling, #14) by Nalini Singh [Read 3/25/2016]

AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS- 7 Continents!!!

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com

[Fr. Andrew]

Edited message 163.

18/20

1. Canada: HARK! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (1/2/16)
2. England: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (1/6/16)
3. India: The Snake Charmer: A Novel by Sanjay Nigam (1/18/16)
4. United States: The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon (1/24/16)
5. Japan: Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto (2/4/16)
6. Netherlands: Under the Skin by Michel Faber (2/8/16)
7. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (2/12/16)
8. Italy: The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule by Igort (2/24/16)
9. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović (3/14/16)
10. Russia: There Are Jews in My House by Lara Vapnyar (3/27/16)
11. Fictionalized Middle Eastern Country: Guapa by Saleem Haddad 4/12/16
12. Lebanon: A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached 4/11/16
13. Australia: New Kids on the Block's Hangin' Tough by Rebecca Wallwork 4/14/16
14. Scotland: Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming 4/27/16
15. France: Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh 5/13/16
16. Zimbabwe: The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa by Alexander McCall Smith 5/29/16
17. China: Boxers by Gene Luen Yang 6/13/16
18. Germany: The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink 8/7/16

[Charity]

Updated message 51.

9/10

[Cheri]

Update: 16/18
Country: Iran
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (5 stars)

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13 with The Netherlands - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

23/20

[Cassandra]

Congratulations Geri and Sherry! What were your favorite books of the challenge?

[Sherry]

I think mine would be Shards of Hope (Psy-Changeling, #14) by Nalini Singh. I like Nalini Singh's book so it was easier for me to look forward to. It was harder to find and read books as I never heard of them before or had to really look hard for. What made it easier was finding children books by authors from those said countries. Some were folklores by those countries so it was interesting.

I just looked at the map, and randomly picked countries from those continents and try to find books.. I did had to change countries twice to find something. I like this challenge as it helped us find different authors and introduce us to some of the culture written by that author. It was a good way to broaden our horizon. But I can't imagine trying to find books by multiple countries so I'm glad I did it by continents. Good luck to those who made goals for by countries.

[Cheri]

Cassandra wrote: ""

Hi, Cassandra -- I think you accidentally skipped me when you were updating. I see the person before and after me have the most current numbers. I should have 16/18. Thanks!

[Candiss]

I updated message #14.

Read: 8/12

[Caro]

So this is my update... Hopefully more will be coming!!!

1. De qué hablo cuando hablo de correr - Japan
2.¡Muuu! - Germany
3.The Bollywood Bride - India
4.The Handmaid's Tale - Canada
5.Voces de Chernóbil - Ukraine
6.I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Pakistan
7.The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Sweden
8.Cierra los ojos, princesa - Colombia
9.The Vegetarian - South Korea
10. The Festival of Insignificance Czech Republic
11.
12.

[Victoria]

August update I am now 6/8 after completing A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Full list at page 1 message 18

[Lynn]

Updated message 62. -- 25/25 -- COMPLETE

✔Nigeria--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah--08/18/16

I'm going to call it done with 25, but of course I'm not really through.

[Marja]

Update #80

7/12

7. England: The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson

[katie]

Updated message 526

Latvia: High Tide by Inga Ābele

Read: 5/10

[Katzi]

updated post 305 - read 5/8

[Cassandra]

Sorry about that, Cheri! You're all set.

Congratulations to Lynn for completing her challenge. :)

[Cheri]

Update: 17/18
Country: Ireland

Electric Light by Seamus Heaney (4 stars)

[Marja]

Updated #80.

8/12

Canada

[Eggp]

August update:
Goal: 15/12, 125.00%

14. Hungary: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie - 21 Aug 2016, 5/5
15. Pakistan: The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn - 26 Aug 2016, 4/5

[Laurie]

update 341 : 14/15

[Laurie]

Updated message 19

Challenge Complete

24/24

1. Switzerland - Heidi by Johanna Spyri
2. France - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. Japan - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
4. Sweden - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
5. USA- The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
6. Mauritania - Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
7. Nigeria - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8. Chile - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
9. England - The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
10. Morocco - The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
11. Sierra Leone - Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
12. Cape Verde - The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida
13. Canada - Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder
14. Czech Republic - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
15. Turkey - My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
16. New Zealand - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
17. Antigua - Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
18. Finland - The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
19. Russia - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
20. Australia - A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
21. Ghana - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
22. Latvia - High Tide by Inga Ābele
23. Iraq - The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
24. Vietnam - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

[Susan]

11. Cuba- Walking with the Night: The Afro-Cuban World of Santeria by Raul Canazares

12. Cambodia- Stay Alive, My Son by Pin Yathay

12 Countries read

[Samantha (AK)]

Updated message 162 (6/10)

[Ecem]

Updating msg 303:

14. Norway - Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4) by Jo Nesbø -- READ
15. Austria-Hungary - The Trial by Franz Kafka -- READ

15/16

[Laurie]

Update and Completed #341: 15/15!! woohoo!

[Yaara]

update msg 743.
4/10
sweden - A Man Called Ove

[Ronja]

Editing post #86

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Thank you Cassandra! Thank you for the company, everyone!

✔ 1. Belarus: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
✔ 2. North Korea: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
✔ 3. Australia: Women of the Outback
✔ 4. Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
5. ✔ Canada: The Road to Yesterday
6. ✔ Iran: The Peacock Princess: The True-Life Story of an American Woman and Her Daughters, Trapped Among Decadent Iranian Aristocracy in Royal and Revolutionary Iran
✔ 7. Germany: Gone to Ground: One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
✔ 8. Finland: Hertta
✔ 9. Romania: The Passport
✔ 10. USA: The Lost Symbol

[Cassandra]

Congratulations to both Lauries and Ronja for finishing their challenges! :)

[Yaara]

Update msg 743.
5/10
Antigua - Small Place

[Janine]

13/15

13) Afghanistan - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

[Charity]

Updated message 51.

Completed 10/10

I will still keep adding to the list to see how many I do complete this year.

[Amanda]

Updated #181
I'm going to up it to 18 as I've planned in a book from another country.

17. Zimbabwe Bertie Plays the Blues by Alexander McCall Smith Completed 22/08/16 Rating 4 stars


17/18

[Marina]

Update in post #24

Total 12/15

[Diane L]

Finished

AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016
20/20

1. The Navigator by Clive Cussler, 2 Jan 2016, born in USA
2. Once upon a Summer by Janette Oke, 3 Jan 2016, born in Canada
3. A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker, 10 Jan 2016, born in Indonesia
4. The Plague by Albert Camus, 15 Jan 2016, born in Algeria
5. Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin, 21 Jan 2016, born in Georgia (the Asian country, not the state)
6. The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill, 26 Jan 2016, born in UK
7. What's So Great About Christianity by Dinesh D'Souza, 31 Jan 2016, born in India
8. Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, 9 Feb 2016, born in Ukraine
9. Inferno by Dante Alighieri, 22 Feb 2016, born in Italy
10. The Dark Monk by Oliver Pötzsch, 24 Mar 2016, born in Germany
11. The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, 25 Mar 2016, born in Netherlands
12. [[book:One Hundred Names|15732712] by Cecelia Ahern, 20 Apr 2016, born in Ireland
13. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 26 Apr 2016, bor in Austria-Hungary (birth city is currently in Czech Republic)
14. Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton, 30 Apr 2016, born in Hungary
15. Voices by Arnaldur Indriðason, 16 May 2016, born in Iceland
16. Your Body's Many Cries for Water: You Are Not Sick, You Are Thirsty! Don't treat thirst with medications; A Preventive and Self-Education Manual for Those Who Prefer to Adhere to the Logic of the Natural and the Simple in Medicine by F. Batmanghelidj, 28 Jun 2016, born in Iran
17. Arcady's Goal by Eugene Yelchin, 2 Jul 2016, born in Soviet Union (birth city is currently in Russia)
18. Angels in the Gloom by Anne Perry, 4 Aug 2016, lived in New Zealand
19. Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley, 10 Aug 2016, Michael Sears who is one of the two authors writing as Michael Stanley lives in South Africa
20. A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty, 13 Aug 2016, born in Australia

[Willemijn]

I can't find my last update, as I haven't updated in a while...

I'm currently at 9/15 books

01. Czech Republic: De vuurvliegjes achterna - Martin Šimek
02. USA: Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
03. The Netherlands: Het Diner (The Dinner) - Herman Koch
04. Italy: Versluiering - Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
05. UK: The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
06. Ireland: De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) - John Boyne
07. India: Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
08. Peru: De stad van de wilde goden (City of the Beasts) - Isabel Allende
09. Thailand: Bangkok Boy - Chai Pinit

[Patricia]

just finished book #10-- "The Glass Bead Game" form Germany

[Victoria]

September update completed 7/8

Italy - My Brilliant Friend

One more to go, full list on page 1 message 18

[Charity]

Updated message 51.

11/10

[Cassandra]

Congratulations to Charity, Amanda, and Diane for finishing their challenges!

[Vernice]

Updated message 44. Completed 8/15