Around the World in 80 Books discussion
ATW in 80 Books World Challenge
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Rosemarie Circumnavigator 2016 to 2020
Revisiting the U.S. - MontanaUndaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
Revisiting the U.S. - MarylandNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
What did you think of At Swim? I felt pretty clueless the whole way through.
So did I. I looked up the synopsis in Wikipedia and thought--oh, so that was what happened. I didn't rate it because I had no idea how many stars to give it. The author did keep me reading to the end, and I do like the ending.
I had to look somewhere to see what happened too. I don't remember the end or much at all except my confusion.
Revisiting the U.S.The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America by Roger Kimball
Revisiting EnglandThe Twits by Roald Dahl
I needed to read something short after finishing the Forsyth book.
I created a Google spreadsheet for the group if you want to log all your books there. Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Revisiting EnglandDracula by Bram Stoker
Only about a quarter of the book (or less) takes place in Transylvania.
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
An alien planet:Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Revisiting the U.S. - New York
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Revisiting Greece- CreteFalling for Icarus: A Journey among the Cretans by Rory MacLean
Revisiting the U.S - New Jersey
Deenie by Judy Blume
Revisiting ItalyTitus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Revisiting Canada - Quebec
Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Around the World in 80 Books
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Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth
The curlews migrate from the Arctic tundra to Patagonia and back every year.