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Help! I need a book set in....
Cherie wrote: "Jannene wrote: "I found a silk book for those looking for one. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk."There is also a Sherlock Holmes book called The House of Silk."
I found another "silk" book. Women of the Silk.
Deborah wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "Deborah wrote: "oh good - can't READ the kindle edition but so long as someone can verify it's true...... :DBeen working hard gophering this afternoon, Cherie - you set me off to t..."
Deborah - no, you're not, the search option probably took you to the generic cover. I had to click on others editions to find the butterfly cover :-)
Hate the italics! Someone was looking fir a book with "silk" in the tile - check out The Harmony Silk Factory.
Deborah, there are editions listed in Amazon that show a butterfly on the cover of Chalkhill Blues. We work on the honour system here, and I'll accept that the issue you have fits the criteria.
Cherie, it was widely believed (perhaps erroneously) that saltpeter was used to reduce libido. It was rumoured that it was used in prisons as a food additive.
Yes, that will work Mariab.
ONE BOOK left! Any Around the World readers have a book set in Gambia? I'm too tired to start gophering all of the lists there and I cannot find one in the Listopia searches.
Janice wrote: "Yes, that will work Mariab."YAY!!!
Cherie wrote: "ONE BOOK left! Any Around the World readers have a book set in Gambia? I'm too tired to start gophering all of the lists there and I cannot find one in the Listopia searches."Try this link, Cherie. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Another:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Cherie - Roots: The Saga of an American Family is based from The Gambia; you could look at Reading the Ceiling (which I am considering) or The Sun Will Soon Shine. If nothing else, perhaps Folk Tales and Fables from the Gambia. Volume 1 would do?
What about The Silkworm for the silk task? I know we usually can't parse out the word from a compound, but in this case, since the take home item is a silkworm egg, maybe this compound can count? If so, I recommend it as a pleasant way to get your silk in, with the audio version being quite entertaining.
Good point, Sharon. Yes, I'll make an exception for the silk task for the very reasons you state.
Lilisa wrote: "Try these..."Thanks for the links. I looked at them and at the books Deborah sent but found this one on my own. Trials Elsewhere: Stories of Life and Development in West Africa.
I recently had a great experience with a company IT guy in Coasta Rica, so this one sounded interesting. Who knows when or if I will ever get to it, but the title is there now.
I can stop gophering for my Geo tasks and start pouring over the books on my Nook and my bookshelf at home for the Team Toppler now.
Deborah wrote: "I've put up 2-3 dozen today, I think - but I am stuck on wool - every blasted return comes up with the sci-fi novel for pages and pages.......grrrr! *doesn't do sci-fi*"Deborah, I read Astonishing Splashes of Colour to meet the "wool" criteria (woman on cover is wearing wool coat).
. Strangely, I came across Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City, which has the identical image on the cover.
How very odd! The edition I had in my hand had a different cover, TrudyAn or I would have used it. The second book looks interesting - sadly 'Astonishing Splashes....' struck me as the wrong sort of astonishing :S
Deborah wrote: "sadly 'Astonishing Splashes....' struck me as the wrong sort of astonishing :S ..."LOL
Cherie wrote: "ONE BOOK left! Any Around the World readers have a book set in Gambia? I'm too tired to start gophering all of the lists there and I cannot find one in the Listopia searches."Wow! For the 4 or the 6 or the everything option?
Hahah, Beth. It was for the "every" option. I found one for Gambia and now I have at least one book listed for all tasks on all of the sites. I am definitely not going to kid myself into thinking that I could read them all in the next 6 months, even IF I could get my hands on them all. I cannot read that fast, for one and there is no point. Janice never intended that. She was just giving us as many options as she could. 222 options, to be exact. I have to finish my books for the 2nd part and then dig into the 3rd part to finish one book for every task. For myself, I am not sure that is even possible, but it will be fun to try. I have not counted how many I have read that will apply to the
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So I need a book set in Peru. Any ideas? Something shortish. Something that isn't crap! Nothing non fiction or I'll still be here next year.EDIT: Found two possibles - Thirteen - Bookssetin.com list it as part set in Peru. I know it's not all set there. Not sure if it's enough? Anyone read it?
Temple - definitely qualifies but is it any good? Anyone read it? or anything else by the author? I've not heard of him before.
Sarah wrote: "So I need a book set in Peru. Any ideas? Something shortish. Something that isn't crap! Nothing non fiction or I'll still be here next year.EDIT: Found two possibles - Thirteen - Boo..."
I read The Clue in the Crossword Cipher for Peru. It's a Nancy Drew mystery and a quick, easy read. What I liked about it was Nancy and friends actually visited 2 of the sites listed for Peru.
I read The Clue in the Crossword Cipher for Peru as well. I remember being excited when Nancy went to see those places. And I agree with Lori; it's a quick, easy read.
I've not read any Nancy Drew since i was ahiut 13 years old. I do remember liking them though. I know The Celestine Prophecy is set in Peru but I've read it twice and don't realy want to read it again.
Sharon wrote: "For Peru, I'm reading The Sky Over Lima right now and it's terrific, and also not very long."I have Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter . I will probably not read the first, but the second one sounds good to me, Sarah. I also have Temple listed, but do not know anything about it.
Cherie wrote: "Hahah, Beth. It was for the "every" option. I found one for Gambia and now I have at least one book listed for all tasks on all of the sites. I am definitely not going to kid myself into thinking t..."Cherie, there is no "every option". There is an every site option. If you go for that option, the number of books that you would read would be 86:
Main challenge = 12 books, 4 sites
Bonus all continents = 6 books, 2 more sites
Bonus all sites = total of 74 sites less 6 sites already visited = 68 books
12 + 6 + 68 = 86 books.
While you may have a personal goal, I want to make it very clear (so as to not confuse other people) that there is no option to read all 222 books.
....even if you do do so!@! Ha, better get my skates on!
Yes, Janice. I agree. 68 books left after the 2nd badge option. I did not divide 204 by 3. (Or subtract 6 sites from 74). Either way, the number is the same.
Sarah wrote: "So I need a book set in Peru. Any ideas? Something shortish. Something that isn't crap! Nothing non fiction or I'll still be here next year.EDIT: Found two possibles - Thirteen - Boo..."
YES! Both of the options I had down for Argentina that were both bloody set in Peru!!
Bel Canto, The Bad Girl
Janice - would you consider The English Patient for the India - Taj Mahal task "read a book about a great love" ?
Yes, I think it would, Cherie.
Janice wrote: "Yes, I think it would, Cherie."Sweet! Thanks. I can eliminate another task!
Australia: g: Sydney Opera House: musician is significant character;fictional musicians are acceptable ?
Found this book and it looks interesting;
The Book of Harlan
Naomi wrote: "Australia: g: Sydney Opera House: musician is significant character;fictional musicians are acceptable ? ."
Yes - fiction and non-fiction are both acceptable.
Cherie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "For Peru, I'm reading The Sky Over Lima right now and it's terrific, and also not very long."I have [book:Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Pe..."
Aunt Julia wasn't bad. Read it last year or the year before.
I came a across a free book on Amazon this morning. It's The Watermelon King. It LOOKS like it's set in Kenya.
link to Amazon page
I started reading The Girl Who Wrote in Silk for one of the China tasks as "set in China", but I am suspecting that it is not set in China, but in the San Juan Islands and Seattle. I am not sure yet though. Funny how we can go from one book to another and find out that the characters have the same name or the setting is the same as the book you just finished. I finished The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender on Wednesday. It was set in Seattle. I am going to finish it because I can use it for Japan.
Cherie wrote: "I started reading The Girl Who Wrote in Silk for one of the China tasks as "set in China", but I am suspecting that it is not set in China, but in the San Juan Islands and Seattle. ..."I can relate to that, Cherie. Just now I had begun to read a book, which I thought I would fit one task and it turned out it fits a completely different one! The Edge of Never
Cherie wrote: "I started reading The Girl Who Wrote in Silk for one of the China tasks as "set in China", but I am suspecting that it is not set in China, but in the San Juan Islands and Seattle. ..."I have the Girl Who Wrote in Silk on my Kindle and haven't got to it yet. Let me know if you enjoy it. I got it when they were having a deal and thought it sounded interesting.
Amanda (Mandy) wrote: "Cherie wrote: "I started reading The Girl Who Wrote in Silk for one of the China tasks as "set in China", but I am suspecting that it is not set in China, but in the San Juan Island..."So far, I am liking it, Amanda. I had to put it aside for the toppler. It is a dual time line - in 1886 that tells the story of Mei Lien and then in "present day" with the story of Inara Erickson. I read the first 6 chapters. The story line has some historical aspects of Seattle History and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1884, when there was so much antimosity against the Chinese along the west coast. I am looking forward to getting back to it.
I am borrowing this from the library. Hopefully I can finish it before it is due to go back. I waited 2 months for it.
I came across this book with wool in the cover
Maybe it has already came up in this thread. Since I'm not doing that task I might have missed it.
i don't know if anyone's already mentioned it but there's a goodreads group specifically for collecting book settings, called, not coincidentally, "Settings."
Can you link the group, Jennifer?Due to Goodreads' "fantastic" search engine, it gives me 43 pages of groups, and none of them are it.
In case anyone is looking for a book for one of these sites -- I just finished The Dressmaker's War which could count for: * ASIA: Japan -- Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
Read a book set in wartime (any war)
* ASIA: Japan -- Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
Read a book with a character that is a seamstress or tailor, or has a clothing sweat shop
or maybe
* EUROPE: Germany -- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Read a book set in Germany
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OK, I can't ignore this any longer. Books set in space - this is a requirement TWICE and I don't do sci-fi....post-apocalyptic genre? yikes! So, that's 3 books (at least) that might as well be written in foreign as far as I'm concerned.....anyone care to offer me an idea? or two?
I am attempting the whole challenge of 222 books so that's why I am looking at stuff I normally wouldn't even consider.
HELP!
Deborah, have you read The Martian? I would say it's more "funny science" than science fiction. I don't have a title to suggest, but maybe some non fiction set in the International Space Station, or about the life inside a space ship during long trips, etc.
oh! you clever thing! That sounds just right for me.......couldn't see the woods for the trees! thank you :) I will look at The Martian also.
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Been working hard gophering this afternoon, Cherie - you set me off to try and at least..."
Lilisa - what a dimwit I am! I never even saw the butterfly on that edition!
Thanks for the woolly tips everyone - though I think it had to be on the cover or in the title - I'll try the lists Cherie - I had just put in search bar and also googled etc