Numbers Selected

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

I will be going to French Polynesia with Frangipani by Célestine Hitiura Vaite.

[Sandra]

I still have to finish my Feb book The Bear Whispers to Me - loving it so far- but will head to The Cayman Islands next with The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

[Joy D]

My #7 is The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea (Mexico)

[Odette]

I am off to North Korea for March reading the 7th book on my list:

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa

[Valerie]

# 7 will get me to Russia with Anne Applebaum's Gulag

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

April's number is 21. What will you be reading?

[Doris]

I've got The House Of Wisdom, about medieval Islamic scholars, coming up for April.

[Valerie]

I will read Alain Mabanckou's Les Cigognes sont immortelles (Republic of Congo)

[Donna]

I'll be reading Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (Palestine)

[Sandra]

21 Sudan Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

Off to Sudan.

[Bluemoon]

I'll be in the Ukraine with Odessa, Odessa

[Odette]

I will be going to Yemen:
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

[Joy D]

Just finished my #21 for April:
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss - 4 stars - My Review

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

May's number is 16. What will you be reading?

[Donna]

My number 16 will have me visiting Kazakhstan with The Zahir by Paulo Coelho. :)

[Sandra]

My May book takes me to Armenia THE FOOL (Khenté) -

[Doris]

Well, I'm not doing real well this year, but if I get back on track in May, I'll be in Germany with The Women in the Castle

[Bluemoon]

I'm off to Dominica with A View of the Empire at Sunset

[Odette]

I will be going to Afghanistan with
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

[Valerie]

I'm going to Sweden with Jonas Jonasson's The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

[Jacque T]

I'll be going to Haiti next with Hold Tight, Don't Let Go

[Gemma]

Odette wrote: "I will be going to Afghanistan with
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini"

I also went there this year, was on my to read list for a long time. What did you think?

[Joy D]

Just completed my #16 for May:
The Comedians by Graham Greene - My Review

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

June's number is 24. Remember, you may swap out any books on your list during this month.

What will you be reading?

[Doris]

Siiiggghhhh. I'm not doing at all well on this one this year. I never even cracked open April's book, and May's book is similarly languishing unread. (But I still have 10 days!)

My June book to ignore is set in Spain, Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World.

[Valerie]

I am off to Ukraine with Andrey Kurkov's The President's Last Love. This one has been sitting on my bookshelves for close to a decade, so high time that I read it!

[Donna]

For June's read I'll be heading to Rwanda with An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

[Joy D]

Finished my #24 for June:
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino - completed 6/12/20 - 3 stars - My Review (Italy)

[Arpit]

Number for July ?

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

July's number is 18. What will you be reading?

[Sandra]

18 Comoros A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

Heading to Comoros this month.

[Arpit]

under the Tuscan sun,....Italy

[Doris]

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

[Valerie]

I am off to Australia with Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang

[Donna]

I'll be 'in' Libya with 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

[Bluemoon]

I'll be on the Isle of Skye with Under a Storm-Swept Sky

[Arpit]

number for August?

[Sandra]

Is there an August number yet?

[Sandra]

Hi everyone -- no number yet for August and Diane doesn't accept messages so maybe something unforeseen came up for her. I generated a random number between 1-24 and 19 came up -- SHould we just go with # 19 for August and let Diane off the hook? That's what I am planning unless she posts otherwise before Saturday.

I love this challenge.

[Sandra]

So my #19 is
Lesotho Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman

[Doris]

19 sounds good to me; that will take me to South Africa with The Great Anglo-Boer War

[Donna]

#19 is fine with me - takes me to Liberia with This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

August's number is 23. What will you be reading?

[Sandra]

23 Finland Memory of Water

Ok -- heading to the opposite end of the world. Not Lesotho, but Finland.

[Doris]

Okay, so not South Africa; instead, I'll be off to Russia (at least to start) with Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness

[Donna]

OK, so instead of Liberia, I'll be heading to Poland with Night by Elie Wiesel

[Valerie]

I will be going to Jamaica with Andrea Levy's The Long Song

[Jacque T]

I'm off to Africa Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

[Bluemoon]

I'm off to the Lofoten Islands, Norway with The Sunlit Night

[Joy D]

Just finished my #23 for August, set in Australia:

Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth - 4 stars - My Review