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dely's books and challenges in 2020
Far and wide through Indiaprevious year: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
visited 17 states (48.5%)
Create your own visited map of India or Amsterdam travel guide for Android
States:
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar: India: A Wounded Civilization
Chhattisgarh
Delhi:
The Wildings
Delhi
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Goa: Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
Gujarat:
The Algebra Of Infinite Justice
Il libro di Krishna
Haryana: Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
Himachal Pradesh: Nine Lives
The Dalai Lama's Cat
The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Art of Purring
Jammu e Kashmir: Kashmir Saivism - The Central Philosophy of Tantrism
Jharkhand
Karnataka:
India. Cinque racconti, sei reportage, tre fumetti
Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan
Kerala: Idris : Keeper of the Light
Madhya Pradesh:
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
Un'isola di mistero : seguito delle avventure di viaggio di Dalle caverne e dalle giungle dell'Indostan
Maharashtra:
Sacred Games
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Saturday Date
The Moor's Last Sigh
ŚRĪ JÑĀNEŚVARA : Lo yogin cantore della libertà
Family Matters
Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life and Teachings of Shirdi Sai Baba
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Orissa: eFiction India Vol. 1 Issue 07
Punjab: Train to Pakistan
Rajasthan: India Was One
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu:
Shilappadikaram
The Toss of a Lemon
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh:
Sea of Poppies
Krsna: The Supreme Personality of Godhead: v. 1
Uttarakhand
West Bengal:
Freedom at Midnight
The City of Joy
The Sleeping Dictionary
Sister of My Heart
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
The Lives of Others
The Hungry Tide
India without a real setting:
Kamasutra
71 Golden Tales of Panchatantra
A Fine Balance
L'Induismo
Timeless wisdom from ancient India
The Dance of Siva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
Animal's People
Far and Wide through Africa
Algeria: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Angola
Benin
Botswana: Precious Ramotswe, detective by Alexander McCall Smith
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Camerun
Capo Verde
Ciad
Comore
Costa d'Avorio
Egitto
Eritrea
Etiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana: Stelle nere by Ryszard Kapuściński
Gibuti
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea Equatoriale
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libia
Madagascar: Ghost of Chance by William S. Burroughs
Malawi
Mali
Marocco: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambico
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rep. Centrafricana
Rep. del Congo
RD del Congo: Stelle nere by Ryszard Kapuściński
Ruanda
São Tomé e Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia: Don't Tell Me You're Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella
Sudafrica
Sudan
Sudan del Sud
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
54 states! I will add the English names as soon as I'll have some time.
Novel Cure Challengeprevious year: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Review with all the books listed for this challenge: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Countries visited in 2020:
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1) Japan A Life of Jesus
2) Madagascar Ghost of Chance
3) Iran Il meccanico delle rose + Salam, maman
4) Spain The Pilgrimage
Verrà di notte by Miguel de Unamuno
5) Peru The Celestine Prophecy
6) Russia Laurus
7) India The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Art of Purring
8) China I cannibali di Mao: La nuova Cina alla conquista del mondo
9) France Pellegrino a quattroruote. Sulle strade d'Europa Livio Fanzaga
10) Bosnia and Herzegovina Mistero Medjugorje
11) Italy Nostra Signora del Soccorso: un santuario per Pietra. La sua storia narrata in tre libri (Liguria)
Una finestra vistalago (Lombardy)
Il cieco di Ortakos (Sardinia)
12) UK The Woman in White
13) USA On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
14) The Netherlands Ida Peerdeman - La veggente di Amsterdam
15) Portugal Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
16) Saudi Arabia Una piccola morte
17) Lebanon Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams
1)
Vita di Gesù 3*A Life of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Japan)
2)
La febbre del ragno rosso 3*Ghost of Chance by William S. Burroughs
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Africa Challenge: Madagascar
5)
Il cammino di Santiago by Paulo Coelho 1*English edition: The Pilgrimage
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Spain)
6)
La profezia di Celestino by James Redfield 2*English edition: The Celestine Prophecy
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Peru)
7)
San Michele Arcangelo. L'umile condottiero celeste by Feliciano Innocente 3*No English edition.
Religion/Spirituality
8)
Lauro by Eugene Vodolazkin 3*English edition: Laurus
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Russia)
9)
Il gatto del Dalai Lama e l'arte di fare le fusa di David Michie 3*English edition: The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Art of Purring
I have preferred the first book of the series, but this one is an enjoyable and amusing read too.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(India)
IR Challenge 1/5
10)
Spiritualità e politica di Luciano Manicardi 4*No English edition. It was a short but very interesting book about how politics should be interlinked with spirituality so that it really works to help people and the community.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
11)
Camminare. Un kit teologico di Giulio Osto 2,5*No English edition. It talks about the meaning of "walking" in the Gospels, but also about "walking" as a pilgrimage, or in daily life. It talks about "walking" alone, with others; but also "walking" as an inner journey.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
12)
I cannibali di Mao: La nuova Cina alla conquista del mondo di Marco Lupis 4*No English edition. The author is an Italian journalist. In this book he tells us about his 25 years in China working as a journalist and he faces different topics.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(China)
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I keep thinking of you atleast once a day .
Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "Am relieved that you posted here . stay safe , dely. I keep thinking of you atleast once a day ."
Thank you so much! Stay safe too. I've heard about some lock downs also there in India in some states.
Mod
13)
Pellegrino a quattroruote. Sulle strade d'Europa di Livio Fanzaga 3*No English edition. This priest travels through Europe (Poland, France and Spain) to visit holy places, above all those that had an apparition of the Vergin Mary.
Only Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(mainly France)
14)
Mistero Medjugorje di Antonio Socci 2*No English edition. In this Covid time I continue with my religious books because they lift me up. This was not very well written, but the part about the Marian apparitions interesting.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Bosnia and Erzegovina)
15)
Nostra Signora del Soccorso: un santuario per Pietra. La sua storia narrata in tre libri 3*No English edition. It talks about the history of a Marian sanctuary not far away from where I live. I haven't visited it yet, but I hope to go there as soon as we can live again normally.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Italy / Liguria)
16)
Una finestra vistalago di Andrea Vitali 3*No English edition.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Italy / Lombardy)
17)
La donna in bianco 4,5*English edition: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(UK)
18)
Il filo infinito: Viaggio alle radici d'Europa di Paolo Rumiz 5*There isn't an English edition. The author tells us his journey through Europe talking about different topics, but above all about the Christian roots of Europe saying also that Europeans forgot the values of Christianity. This leads to nationalisms and populism, and puts one European country against the other, and that there will never be a real unity until we don't accept our roots. And being between Russia and the USA, we (Europe) need to be united. He moved from one Benedictine abbey to the other, from Italy to Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Hungary, and back to Italy.
It was so so so interesting!
19)
Il cieco di Ortakos di Salvatore Niffoi 4*No English edition.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Italy / Sardinia)
20)
Noi by Yevgeny Zamyatin 2*English edition: We
One of the first dystopian novels so it is pretty important in literature, but I didn't like it a lot. Written in the form of a diary, the thoughts of the main character are too fragmented and the narration is not fluid.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
21)
I giorni alla finestra. Racconti da un tempo sospeso 3*No English edition. This ebook has been made by an Italian publisher during the lockdown. He asked common people to send short stories about their lockdown. At the end the publisher chose the best stories and did this ebook that can be downloaded for free on its site. All the stories were really good. Some were very moving, others a little bit boring, but all in all the publisher had a very good idea and put together some enjoyable stories.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
22)
Tutti i nostri corpi by Georgi Gospodinov 3*No English edition. It's a collection of short and very short stories.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
23)
Elogio del silenzio by John Biguenet 4*English edition: Silence
A very interesting non-fiction about silence. Easy to read, interesting and it added a lot of informations because I had a simple idea of silence. I just found out that it has a lot of aspects. Very interesting book!
Only Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
24)
Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra di Ocean Vuong 5*English edition: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
This is a wonderful and powerful book! About discrimination but above all about looking for our identity when we live as an immigrant abroad. Wonderful, wonderful! Such a poetic language. Oh yes, it talks also about the importance of language, both our mothertongue but also that of the country we live in. The author lives in the US but has Vietnamese origins. And he talks about how difficult and hard life can be when you are always considered a stranger.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(USA)
Mod
Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra di Ocean Vuong 5*English edition: [book:On Earth We're Briefly Go..."
on my tbr. couldn't be a more apt time to read this.
Gorab wrote: "on my tbr. couldn't be a more apt time to read this."I hope you will like it as much as I did! I could relate several times to the author and what he was saying and feeling.
25)
La strada del cielo: La vita come pellegrinaggio verso l'eternità di Livio Fanzaga 2*No English edition.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra di Ocean Vuong 5*English edition: [book:On Earth We're Briefly Go..."
Visiting your thread after long. And as usual some brilliant books I am picking up to read :)
I am adding this book to my TBR dely.
Girish wrote: "dely wrote: "24) Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra di Ocean Vuong 5*English edition: [book:On Earth We'..."
Thank you! Sadly I don't have a lot of time to write also an English review as I did in the past.
I hope you will like this book!
26)
Verrà di notte by Miguel de Unamuno 2*No English edition. It's a collection of poems about the night. Not for me.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Spain)
27)
Ida Peerdeman - La veggente di Amsterdam di Gebhard Paul Maria Sigl 3*No English edition on GR.
(The Netherlands)
28)
I messaggi della Signora di tutti i Popoli di Ida Peerdeman 3*No English edition on GR.
(The Netherlands)
29)
Viaggio in Portogallo by José Saramago 2*English edition: Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
It was pretty boring. The author travels through Portugal (his homecountry) explaining to the reader all the places, churches, castels, museum, etc. he visits. Nearly 500 pages of only this. Pretty boring but I managed to finish it only because I liked his writing style and how he managed to enthrall me.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Portugal)
30)
Una piccola morte by Mohammed Hasan Alwan 4*English edition: "A Small Death"
I couldn't find an English edition on GR, but it has been translated into English. It's the fictional biography of Ibn Arabi, one of the most important and famous mystical Sufi.
It was an interesting read and above all it was very flowing and enthralling. Despite the over 500 pages, I've read it very fast.
(Saudi Arabia)
31)
Vita di sant'Antonio by Vergilio Gamboso 3*English edition: Life Of St. Anthony
Found this book while I was on vacation at my parents' home and decided to read it while staying there.
32)
La guarigione del cuore by Chiara Amirante 3*No English edition. It's a mix of psychology and religion to help people healing from old wounds that hit hard our heart and faith in other people or ourselves.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
33)
Fratelli tutti. Sulla fraternità e l'amicizia sociale by Pope Francis 5*English edition: Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers): Encyclical letter on Fraternity and Social Friendship
It's not only about religion, it's a political treatise about how we really should consider each other brothers and care about each other. It's also about how politics should change to really work for the people.
34)
La porta del sole by Elias Khoury 3*English edition: Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams: a long but interesting book about the struggles of Palestine starting from 1948 till the Lebanese civil war of 1982.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Lebanon)
35)
Il canto della fenice by Carlo Mascellani 1*No English edition. It's an emerging Italian writer and I wanted to give him a try.
Only Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And with this I completed my 2020 challenge to read 35 books!
Mod
Gorab wrote: "another great year! congrats Dely!"Thank you! I've not read as much as usual, but I'm however glad about what I've read. At the end of the year I will add my usual stats about all the books read this year, best book of the year, etc. Will see if I manage to read one more book before the end of the year!
Indian Readers
Books mentioned in this topic
I cannibali di Mao: La nuova Cina alla conquista del mondo (other topics)Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship (other topics)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (other topics)
The Woman in White (other topics)
Brevi lezioni sul linguaggio (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Paolo Rumiz (other topics)Federico Faloppa (other topics)
Carlo Mascellani (other topics)
Elias Khoury (other topics)
Pope Francis (other topics)
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I will continue with my usual challenges: Far and Wide Through India - Far and Wide Through Africa - Nove-Cure Challenge.