Bridgit - Frequent Flyer

[Bridgit]

Hi - I'm not going to really shoot for 80, but I counted the books I read starting 9/15/09 and have a decent amount. Some of them I can't remember exactly where they take place - just that they are in 'Africa'.

Here is what I have so far:

Asia - Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie - India
Asia - Sergei Lukayenko - Day Watch - Russia
Asia - Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen - Japan

Oceania - Keri Hulme - The Bone People - New Zealand

NA - Dennis Lahane - Shutter Island - US
NA - Ernest Hemingway - Old Man and the Sea - Mexico

Caribbean - Junot Diaz - Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Dominican Republic

SA - Isabelle Allende - Daughter of Fortune - Chile

Europe - Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca - England
Europe - Robert Barr Smith - Blood Eagle - Germany
Europe - Tim LaHaye - The Rapture - Romania
Europe - Kate Mosse- Labrynth - France
Europe - Stieg Larsson - Girl With Dragon Tattoo - Sweden
Europe - Phillip Pullman - The Goldan Compass - Netherlands
Europe - Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of teh Earth - Iceland
Europe - James Joyce - Dubliners - Ireland
Europe - Katie Fforde - Highland Fling - Scotland
Europe - William Shakespeare - Hamlet - Denmark
Europe - William Shakespeare - Julius Caeser - Italy
Europe - Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being - Czech Republic
Europe - Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian - Turkey

Middle East - Eric Cline - From Eden to Exile - Israel

Africa - Jodi Picoult - Picture Perfect - Tanzania
Africa - JG Michelson - Mettle - South Africa

[Diane]

Welcome Bridgit!

Picture Perfect is Tanzania
Mettle is in South Africa and Mozamique, probably others. Not sure which African country it is in most.

From Eden to Exile is actually in the Middle East and not Africa, so that gives you 8 Regions and 24 countries! A great start!

[Bridgit]

Awesome! Thanks!! That saves me having to pore through every page to find the references!

[Bridgit]

Just finished Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

A portion of it took place in Antarctica - will that count?

[Diane]

Bridgit wrote: "Just finished Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

A portion of it took place in Antarctica - will that count?"

Yes

[Bridgit]

Europe - Helen of Troy, Margaret George - Greece

[Bridgit]

SA - Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Columbia

[Bridgit]

SA - The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle - Venezuela

[Bridgit]

SA - The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - David Grann - Brazil

[Bridgit]

ASIA - The Windup Girl - Paulo Baciagulpi - Indonesia