2019 - Where in the World Have You Been? (Book Read and Review Linked)

[Kamlesh]

Tenu Main ‘Leh’ Javanga: Journey of 8 Ordinary Men

About the book :

Through this book, I would take the readers on a virtual trip by gliding through the long, winding roads of one of the most picturesque places on planet earth – Leh Ladakh! Accompanying me on this trip are 7 ordinary individuals, who have never done a bike ride let alone visited mountainous terrains with an altitude of 11,562 ft…

Here we are… 8 amateur riders… seeking the pleasure of losing our bikers’ virginity to the place or as its most commonly said – “Getting Leh’d”…

This book is my attempt to pen down the emotions each one of us went through during our maiden 10-day road trip to Leh Ladakh, to relive the moments and hopefully, to inspire others to take the plunge into a once-in-a-lifetime experience…

Being a real-life story, I have abstained from any fiction or suspense but for the travel enthusiasts who love thrills and have a passion to explore the world as is, it would be worth a read! With this book, I hope to encourage my fellow readers to achieve their aspirations in life or at least experience what it means to “go out of the comfort zone”

[Andrea, Slow but steady]

I finished reading In Darkness Visible a couple of weeks ago, but have been delaying my review while I decide which country to claim it for! Rather than The Netherlands as I'd initially indicated, I'm going to say this is Croatia. One of my favourite reads of 2019, but I highly recommend reading The Twentieth Man first.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nadine in California]

I just left an ersatz medieval Japan (and I mean that in a good way) with Automatic Eve.
my review

[Shomeret]

I have recently been on what was for me a very troubling trip to Poland with Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

The ending bothered me. See my review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lilisa]

I was in Trinidad with 'Til the Well Runs Dry and really liked it - 4 stars - might do a review later. I highly recommend the audio, which added to the experience - accents, voices, and all.

[Shomeret]

I was in Belgium during WWII with Resistance members who were planning a satiric newspaper. The book was The Ventriloquists by Evan Roxanna Ramzipoor.

I thought it was terrific. I learned about Resistance journalists in WWII. I'd never read about them previously.

See my review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Andrea, Slow but steady]

I ended the year with a visit to Mexico with Anita Desai's The Zigzag Way. It's a fairly slim novel that I picked up secondhand, attracted by both the author and the cover. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lilisa]

Catching up on reviews:

Greece/Macedonia: Firefly - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Australia/Sri Lanka: Amnesty - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Iran/Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan: Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Almeta]

My travels for 2019



In A Land Far Far Away 2019

✔️A Thousand Splendid Suns 19 Jan
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan

✔️The Woman Next Door 8 Jul
Yewande Omotoso
South Africa

✔️All the Birds, Singing 19 Feb
Evie Wyld
Australia

✔️The Diggers of Colditz: The classic Australian POW story about escape 30 Dec
Jack Champ
Australia

✔️The Lost Man 17 Nov
Jane Harper
Australia

✔️Boy Swallows Universe 15 Nov
Trent Dalton
Australia

✔️Never Never 25 Mar
James Patterson
Australia

✔️The Barrakee Mystery. 7 Apr
Arthur W. Upfield
Australia

✔️The Dark Before Dawn 9 Sep
Jaima Fixsen
Austria

✔️Swimming at Night 10 Oct
Bali

✔️Something in the Water[ 1 Jul
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Bora Bora (French Polynesia)

✔️Blue Shoes and Happiness 20 Apr
Alexander McCall Smith
Bosnia

✔️The Fall Guy 26 Jul
Ritchie Perry
Brazil

✔️The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax 25 Sep
Dorothy Gilman
Bulgaria

✔️A Great Reckoning 27 Mar
Louise Penny
Québec Canada

✔️Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 15 Jul
Jung Chang
China:

✔️The Three-Body Problem 18 Oct
Liu Cixin
China

✔️The Space Merchants 17 Feb
Frederik Pohl
Costa Rica

✔️The Copenhagen Connection 4 Jul
Elizabeth Peters
Denmark

✔️Ophelia 25 Nov
Lisa M. Klein
Denmark

✔️Tomb of the Golden Bird 16 Mar
Elizabeth Peters
Egypt

✔️Three Hands in the Fountain 17 Oct
Lindsey Davis
Egypt

✔️The Last Camel Died at Noon 19 Mar
Elizabeth Peters
Egypt

✔️Cleopatra: A Life 13 Nov
Stacy Schiff
Egypt

✔️Bring Up the Bodies 12 Apr
Hilary Mantel
England

✔️Year Of Wonders: A Novel Of The Plague 23 May
Geraldine Brooks
England, Eyam, Derbyshire

✔️Joan of Arc: Personal Recollections 28 Dec
Mark Twain
France

✔️The Little Paris Bookshop 23 Jan
Nina George
France

✔️The Painted Girls 2 Jun
Cathy Marie Buchanan
France

✔️Nine Dragons 6 Dec
Michael Connelly
Hong Kong

✔️The Glass Woman 29 Nov
Caroline Lea
Iceland

✔️The Case of the Love Commandos 12 Nov
Tarquin Hall
India

✔️The Jungle Books 17 Feb
Rudyard Kipling
India

✔️A Fine Balance 20 Dec
Rohinton Mistry
India

✔️When All Is Said 21 Nov
Anne Griffin
Ireland

✔️A Line Made by Walking 10 Feb
Sara Baume
Ireland

✔️Buried in a Bog 15 May
Sheila Connolly
Ireland

✔️Bog Child 22 Dec
Siobhan Dowd
Ireland

✔️The Cold Cold Ground 12 Oct
Adrian McKinty
Ireland

✔️Black Run 26 Jan
Antonio Manzini
Italy

✔️Six Four 15 Apr
Hideo Yokoyama
Japan

✔️The Travelling Cat Chronicles 16 Jun
Hiro Arikawa
Japan

✔️Between Shades of Gray 18 Jul
Ruta Sepetys
Lithuania

✔️The Ghost Bride 3 Nov
Yangsze Choo
Malaya

✔️The Malta Exchange 17 Aug
Steve Berry
Malta

✔️Choke Point 6 Oct
Ridley Pearson
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

✔️The Luminaries 18 Dec
Eleanor Catton
New Zealand

✔️The Snowman 17 May
Jo Nesbø
Norway

✔️Schindler's List 11 Feb
Thomas Keneally
Poland

✔️The Zookeeper's Wife 12 Sep
Diane Ackerman
Warsaw (Poland)

✔️Blindness 4 Nov
José Saramago
Portugal

✔️Roma 3 Aug
Steven Saylor
Rome

✔️Two for the Lions 12 Oct
Lindsey Davis
Rome

✔️The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome 21 Sep
Christopher Kelly
Rome

✔️Red Sparrow 13 Sep
Jason Matthews
Russia

✔️A Gentleman in Moscow 14 Aug
Amor Towles
Russia

✔️The Girl in the Tower 2 Feb
Katherine Arden
Russia

✔️The Winter of the Witch 13 Aug
Katherine Arden
Russia

✔️His Bloody Project: 14 Feb
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Scotland

✔️Crazy Rich Asians 18 Jan
Kevin Kwan
Singapore

✔️The Vegetarian 1 Apr
Han Kang
South Korea

✔️Zorro 30 Apr
Isabel Allende
Spain

✔️The Labyrinth of the Spirits 22 Mar
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Spain

✔️Roseanna 15 May
Maj Sjöwall
Sweden

✔️The Girl in the Spider's Web 28 May
David Lagercrantz
Stockholm, Sweden

✔️The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules 29 Mar
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Sweden

✔️Faceless Killers 13 Feb
Henning Mankell
Sweden

✔️The Clothesline Swing 8 May
Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Syrian Arab Republic

✔️Birds Without Wings 19 Sep
Louis de Bernières
Turkey

✔️Notes From A Small Island 17 Jun
Bill Bryson
United Kingdom

✔️The Third Secret 16 Oct
Steve Berry
Vatican City,, Holy See

✔️Interrupted Aria 11 Aug
Beverle Graves Myers
Venice

✔️In the Lake of the Woods 10 Dec
Tim O'Brien
Vietnam

✔️The Cold Light of Mourning 7 Oct
Elizabeth J. Duncan
Wales

✔️A Small Hill to Die On 8 Sep
Elizabeth J. Duncan
North Wales

[Lilisa]

Almeta wrote: "My travels for 2019





In A Land Far Far Away 2019

✔️A Thousand Splendid Suns 19 Jan
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan

✔️The Woman Next Door 8 Jul
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Some of my all-time favs on your list. How did you like:
Goodreads is giving me a hard time — [book:The Travelling Cat Chronicles|40961230],

The Travelling Cat Chronicles
A Fine Balance, The Luminaries and A Gentleman in Moscow? And how about the The Case of the Love Commandos? :-) Nice work for 2019!