Numbers Selected

[Vicki]

I will be in Columbia with Love in the Time of Cholera

[Diane L]

I will be in 1600s Germany reading The Beggar King.

[Valerie]

I will be going to Laos with Colin Cotterill's The Coroner's Lunch

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

May's number will be 24. What will you be reading?

[Sandra]

Valerie wrote: "I will be going to Laos with Colin Cotterill's The Coroner's Lunch"


I loved this entire series. I hope you enjoyed it.

[Audrey]

I am going to Sweden in Anxious People
Yay!

[Arpit]

Audrey wrote: "I am going to Sweden in Anxious People
Yay!"

Happy apartment viewing with the anxious people :D

[Sandra]

I'm heading to Eswatini in May, reading When the Ground Is Hard. I haven't started April's book though, so better get moving!

[Simone]

I would go to a place where I have already read the book. What do I do now? I can't replace the book until June, right?

[Ruth]

I'll be reading My Cat Yugoslavia which has been on my TBR for a while, I did make a start lst year but didn't get very far. Now to find the pile in which the book is hiding!

[Donna]

My May read will take me to Singapore! Last Tang Standing

[Joy D]

Finished my #18 for April, set in Canada:
River Thieves by Michael Crummey - 4 stars - My Review

I am headed to Tunisia for May's #24:
A Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

[Diane L]

I'm going to Samoa with South Pacific Survivor: In Samoa.

I'm still working on my April book and hope to finish but it is really not grabbing me so I'm struggling.

[Valerie]

I am off to Switzerland with Nicolas Fuez's Horrora borealis

[Joy D]

Finished #24 for May set in Tunisia:
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith - 4 stars - My Review

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

June's number will be 2. What will you be reading?

[Maria]

In June, I'll be reading The River Between, from Kenya in the early white settler days.

I'm about to start on my May book, Finding Nouf, which was one of the monthly reads some time last year. The library doesn't have the English version anymore, so I'll have to read the Norwegian translation.

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

I will be reading Blindness by José Saramago.

[Sandra]

For June I’m heading to Vanuatu an dreading Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu. It’s been on my Take Down list for at least 2 years so Yay!

[Bluemoon]

I am off to Finland with The Island Affair

[Simone]

I'm heading to Russia again - the book I will read is The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

[Valerie]

For June I will jet off to Cuba with Leonardo Padura's Havana Blue

[Ruth]

This month I've got the longest book on my TBR list (just under 900 pages) Los herederos de la tierra by Ildefonso Falcones. This is a follow up to Cathedral of the Sea which I very much enjoyed.

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

July's number is 15.

What will you be reading?

[Jacque T]

In July I'm going to The Azores with The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

[Valerie]

July takes me to sunny Spain with Dolores Redondo's The Invisible Guardian

[Kathy]

Going to visit A Town Like Alice.

[Sandra]

Suriname is my July country and the book is The Cost of Sugar

[Bluemoon]

I'm off to the Galapagos Islands with Enchanted Islands

[Simone]

I'm off to Sweden and will read some Henning Mankell.

[Ruth]

I've just finished my June read, a historical novel set in Spain with religious conflict as a backdrop and my July read El hereje (The Heretic) by Miguel Delibes is also historical, set in Spain and about religious conflict though set a century later.

[Diane L]

I'm headed to Laos to read Thirty-Three Teeth, a mystery written by Colin Cotterill. I have enjoyed other books in this series.

[Sandra]

Diane L wrote: "I'm headed to Laos to read Thirty-Three Teeth, a mystery written by Colin Cotterill. I have enjoyed other books in this series."


I love his series.

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

August's number is 12.


What will you be reading?

[Arpit]

Off to Switzerland with Mrx Pollifax ! ~~

[Jacque T]

I'll be in England investigating a possible WW2 spy with In Farleigh Field

[Joy D]

Finished my #15 for July, which took me to Iran:
Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik - 4 stars - My Review

[Sandra]

August takes me to Yemen to read The Monk of Mokha.

[Ruth]

Next month I'll be in Bolivia with American Visa by Juan De Recacoechea.

[Simone]

I'm going on a trip through Europe with Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express

[Arpit]

September's number?

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

September's number is 3.


What will you be reading?

[Sandra]

Ha! The perfect September number. My Birthday is Sept 3. So I’ll head to Kazakhstan for The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years.

[Joy D]

Completed my #12 for August:
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami - 5 stars - My Review (features travels from Morocco to Spain to what is now the US and Mexico)

My #3 upcoming for September is:
A Man by Keiichirō Hirano (Japan)

[Maria]

Currently reading my August book, Les Hirondelles de Kaboul. My September book will be En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule

[Jacque T]

I'll be heading to Jamaica with Wide Sargasso Sea

[Arpit]

September's number 3 will take me to Kyrgyzstan as I will be reading 'The first teacher' by Aitmatov.

[Ruth]

So number 3 on my list is Down and Out in Paris and London, it's a long time since I read any George Orwell so I'm looking forward to it.

[Bluemoon]

I'm off to Mongolia with The Lost Tomb

[Valerie]

I will be going to Sweden with Steve Sem-Sandberg's The Tempest