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[Denizen]

I'm in 1999 North Dakota exploring justice, atonement, and native American culture - Erdrich's LaRose.

[Lesley]

AT LAST!! I am in Southern England mostly, but currently thrilling to be at the Paris Exhibition, the colours and lights and beauty in ...The Children's Book. I am LOVING this book. It's a borrowed EBOOK, but I think I'll buy it, as it's like lying in a warm Jacuzzi, with a glass of passion-fruit nectar on an adjacent table.
Now this is all bucolic but to come is :
"But the joyful bacchanals Olive hosts at her rambling country house—and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery and darkness ..."

[Michael]

Denizen wrote: "I'm in 1999 North Dakota exploring justice, atonement, and native American culture - Erdrich's LaRose."

Hope you enjoy it. I submitted a write-in vote for it in the Goodreads Fiction category.

[Michael]

I am in Wales with two old bachelor sheep farmers in 1890, a beginning of a saga spanning 100 years, Bruce Chatwin's On The Black Hill (a 1001 book by author of "In Patagonia"). I am also with elephants in Africa, the beginning of Carl Safina's tour of the wonders of animal minds, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. I already had a 5-star read of his The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World. After weeks with the 1000 page Churchill bio #3, I can now see beyond WW2 to other vistas.

[Denizen]

I'm in the Southwest tangling over water rights in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife. Having lived in Western Colorado, the subject of water rights interests me, and it looks like the book will have plenty of action.

Really enjoying my audio, LaRose by Erdrich.

[Karin]

While I'm still all over the galaxy, I'm also dropping in on 18th century England with a novel about a real life female silversmith called The Silver Touch

[Booknblues]

I'm in Alaska reading To The Bright Edge of the World and Portland reading Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds.

[Karin]

I have left 18th century England and outer space and am in the US in The Overton Window.

The historical fiction novel was based on a real woman, an eighteenth century silvermsith named Hester Bateman. Here's and example of a piece with her mark on it from IRL.

[Booknblues]

Karin wrote: "I have left 18th century England and outer space and am in the US in The Overton Window.

The historical fiction novel was based on a real woman, an eighteenth century silvermsith na..."

Sounds interesting.

[Lesley]

I'm in Charters Towers, which is actually my nearest town, 205 Klms away in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

It's a memoir and quite thrilling to read of places and even a link to people who still live here.

Suffers from the current malady of styles that leap backward and forward to different era's and characters, until I get dizzy.

Really enjoying it for all that.

[Booknblues]

Lesley wrote: "I'm in Charters Towers, which is actually my nearest town, 205 Klms away in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

It's a memoir and quite thrilling to read..."

I love reading about places I know. It just adds to the read.

[Diana S]

I've been to Chicago, France:mainly in Paris, Italy for some skiing, Spain for the bullfights, Canada, New York, etc....
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Then I was visiting a small town in "New Bremen, Minnesota" (1961) with Frank and Jake. But I wouldn't want to lived there. There's been too many murders as of late. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

After that I went to Los Angeles, California and spend some time with Georgie McCool. Instead of going to Nebraska with her family, she stay to finish four TV scripts for a new show. But in up doing a lot of talking on a yellow landline phone in her old room at her mother's home, talking with her husband/boyfriend, Neal, 20 years in their past.
Landline by Rainbow Rowell

[Karin]

I'm not sure where I am because I'm reading Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges isn't a novel or nonfiction book with a place involved.

[Michael]

I am in Orange County awhile, in China a lot, and sometimes India and Malaysia, with a bunch of teens in poor communities making a living from computer gaming (virtual gold mining they call it), a trend that is here projected to lead to an international union aligned with factory workers. This is Cory Doctorow's YA tale For the Win, known for infusing much education about economics in between the thriller action.

[Karin]

I am back in Botswana with Precious and Grace. Ah, so refreshing to be reading the latest installment in that series. Long may it continue!

[Booknblues]

Karin wrote: "I am back in Botswana with Precious and Grace. Ah, so refreshing to be reading the latest installment in that series. Long may it continue!"

I think I somehow fell behind 2 or 3 books. I love that series.

[Denizen]

Diana S wrote: "I've been to Chicago, France:mainly in Paris, Italy for some skiing, Spain for the bullfights, Canada, New York, etc....
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Then I was visiting a small t..."

I've heard lots of good things about The Paris Wife but have yet to pick it up.

[Denizen]

I switched to reading LaRose - thought I would get more out of it. I really enjoyed The Water Knife. It was more action filled than I anticipated and I was starting to feel like a real "Zoner" (Arizona). I enjoyed the Southwest locale and especially the references to Western Colorado. I've tubed and rafted down several of the rivers mentioned. There was one aspect in a sex scene that really irritated me - almost dropped my rating a star but enjoyed the rest of the book so left it at 4 stars.

Switching from audio to reading LaRose, freed me up to move on to Vermont with A Beautiful Truth.

[Booknblues]

Denizen wrote: "I switched to reading LaRose - thought I would get more out of it. I really enjoyed The Water Knife. It was more action filled than I anticipated and I was starting to feel like a r..."

I hope you like A Beautiful Truth. It is a hard book, but I found myself thinking about it long after.

[Denizen]

Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "I switched to reading LaRose - thought I would get more out of it. I really enjoyed The Water Knife. It was more action filled than I anticipated and I was starting ..."

It's too early to call but am prepared for the hardness, I think. Bringing chimps into a home was such a bad idea. Remember the TV show The Hathaways? I wonder what became of those chimps.

[Story]

I'm following in BnB's trusty footsteps and heading To The Bright Edge of the World.

[Booknblues]

Storyheart wrote: "I'm following in BnB's trusty footsteps and heading To The Bright Edge of the World."

I hope you like it. I expect you to really like Sophie and her photography, but I could be wrong...

[Story]

Booknblues wrote: I hope you like it. I expect you to really like Sophie and her photography,..."
She hasn't really started taking photos yet but I'm loving the mystery of the things going on in Alaska like the old man who might really be Raven and the man who maybe married the fog.

Do you have Raven stories in your part of the world? They're a big part of First Nations culture here.

[Denizen]

Storyheart wrote: "Booknblues wrote: I hope you like it. I expect you to really like Sophie and her photography,..."
She hasn't really started taking photos yet but I'm loving the mystery of the things going on in Al..."

Raven stories were big in Colorado, but the only time anyone mentions ravens in Indiana is when speaking about Edgar Allen Poe.

I remember the first time my parents visited us in Colorado my dad exclaiming "I saw the biggest crow I've ever seen on the way here." He was truly impressed.

[Michael]

I am with a Brit in NYC in 1939, where he gets imprisoned as an American navy deserter when he would love to serve in the British navy in the emerging war. Volume 2 of Jeffry Archer's Clifton Chronicles, The Sins of the Father.

[Karin]

I have left Botswana and am back in Victorian England with Nicholas Nickleby

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I'm in New Orleans with Island Beneath the Sea

[Denizen]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I'm in New Orleans with Island Beneath the Sea"

I'll be watching for your review. Allende has been a bit uneven for me so like feedback before tackling her books. I have absolutely loved a few of them.

[Booknblues]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I'm in New Orleans with Island Beneath the Sea" I enjoyed that one.

[Michael]

Booknblues wrote: "Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I'm in New Orleans with Island Beneath the Sea" I enjoyed that one."

I reviewed it a few months back as well. Mixed response.

[Michael]

I am mostly in Texas in the years after 9/11 with a very young hero of soldier action in Iraq whose platoon is being feted at a Dallas Cowboys and used for PR, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. I am also traveling around rural France with a donkey, meditating on life in the slow lane, The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World (the recommendation from BooknBlues.

[Booknblues]

Michael wrote: "I am mostly in Texas in the years after 9/11 with a very young hero of soldier action in Iraq whose platoon is being feted at a Dallas Cowboys and used for PR, [book:Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk..."

Hope you are enjoying the donkey book. :)

[Denizen]

Michael wrote: "I am mostly in Texas in the years after 9/11 with a very young hero of soldier action in Iraq whose platoon is being feted at a Dallas Cowboys and used for PR, [book:Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk..."

I'll be watching for your review of Billy Lynn. It's one of those books that have been on and then off my TBR several times.

[Karin]

I am flitting back and forth between Victorian England (I mentioned that earlier with Nicholas Nickleby) and the nineteenth century American South in News of the World

[Denizen]

I have left the NE and Florida and have moseyed on to Russia with A Gentleman in Moscow - one of those books you hope you'll love as much as everyone else.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I am in Ithaca New York, early 1900's with The Back Building about mental illness and as far as I can tell abuse also.

[Denizen]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I am in Ithaca New York, early 1900's with The Back Building about mental illness and as far as I can tell abuse also."

Oooh. Sounds grim!

[Booknblues]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I am in Ithaca New York, early 1900's with The Back Building about mental illness and as far as I can tell abuse also."

I grew up close to Ithaca, so I am always interested in a book set in the area. I will be interested in your take on this.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

Funny I came across this one while I was separating books by the gender of the author to see who I have read more of and this was incorrectly on the read shelf. I transferred it and then just thought to glance at the first page. WELL, I'm I on page 40. I cannot put it down.

[Michael]

I am in rural Massachusetts in 1964 with a brutish, minimalist woman who works in a boys' correctional facility and lives with a retired cop father, whom she despises, Moshfegh's Eileen. I keep looking for a break in the pattern.

I am also in contemporary London with Detective Caffery killing himself seeking a psychotic pedophile on a missing child case--The Treatment, by Mo Hayder (a woman). The case reminds him too much of the abduction and death of his own brother at age 9 and he 6. A psychological thriller you would say. The first, the Bird Man was pretty twisted. Somewhere between a Nesbo and a Beukes.

[Karin]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I am in Ithaca New York, early 1900's with The Back Building about mental illness and as far as I can tell abuse also."

Michael wrote: "I am in rural Massachusetts in 1964 with a brutish, minimalist woman who works in a boys' correctional facility and lives with a retired cop father, whom she despises, Moshfegh's [book:Eileen|23453..."

Nothing like a little light, post Thanksgiving reading!

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

This sounds very interesting and sort of like my Ithaca read that I'm enjoying very much with my Thanksgiving leftovers.

[Denizen]

Michael wrote: "I am in rural Massachusetts in 1964 with a brutish, minimalist woman who works in a boys' correctional facility and lives with a retired cop father, whom she despises, Moshfegh's Eileen is on my books-to-watch shelf (my feeble attempt to keep the TBR from growing) so am very interested in your feedback. My money is on that a lengthy review will show up in my GR feed.

[Booknblues]

Michael wrote: "I am in rural Massachusetts in 1964 with a brutish, minimalist woman who works in a boys' correctional facility and lives with a retired cop father, whom she despises, Moshfegh's Eileen. I am in Norway reading Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North After I started reading it I realize that Braverman grew up in the next town over where I lived many years and where my hubby grew up. It is always fun to make these connections.

[Karin]

I am sadly leaving Reconstruction era Texas after finishing the 4.5 star News of the World, and am heading to Canada in "I come from the valley"

[Lesley]

Oh I am having such fun in Brixton, London in Wise Children narrated by one of the 75 year old retired musical hall twins, who references so many of Shakespeare plays. Such a character!!

[Denizen]

I am in Russia enjoying my time with A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Booknblues]

Denizen wrote: "I am in Russia enjoying my time with A Gentleman in Moscow."

I want to get to that one soon.

[Story]

I plan to listen to it this month sometime. Maybe we can have a group chat about it.

[Booknblues]

Storyheart wrote: "I plan to listen to it this month sometime. Maybe we can have a group chat about it."

That sounds good.