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[I Gusti]

Hi, my name is Bagus. I am a software developer from Indonesia. My favorite kind of books are historical and mystery novel :)

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

I Gusti wrote: "Hi, my name is Bagus. I am a software developer from Indonesia. My favorite kind of books are historical and mystery novel :)"

Hi Bagus! Welcome to the group!

[George P.]

I Gusti wrote: "Hi, my name is Bagus. I am a software developer from Indonesia. My favorite kind of books are historical and mystery novel :)"

Welcome Brooke and Bagus. We read books by authors from many countries (I've read books by writers from 74 now) and many love an occasional mystery novel.

[[deleted user]]

Hi everyone! My name is Jasmin and I come from Europe, more accurately, from one of the smallest countries in the world, which is less known, but has a very big heart and as the only country in the world carries the word "LOVE" in its name. Now, I am thirty-three years old, and I am truly passionate when it comes to books, I read every genre except for fantasy, and I review pretty much everything I read, so all of you are welcome, you know exactly where to find me. Thank you and God bless =)

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

deleted user wrote: "Hi everyone! My name is Jasmin and I come from Europe, more accurately, from one of the smallest countries in the world, which is less known, but has a very big heart and as the only country in the..."

Hi Jasmin! Welcome to the group! Would that country be Slovenia?

[Jovan]

Yes, welcome, odnosno dobrodošao. Bitno je da smo nešto novo naučili danaske

[[deleted user]]

Hey guys. If you allow me to say, I love, love, I absolutely love books. Ones I am truly obsessed about are ones that have very beautiful and very mysterious covers, cause I truly appreciate all of their beauty and all of their mystery. But anyway, something about me.

I've a very beautiful mind, very beautiful heart, and very beautiful soul, and my friends, those who know me best, think of me as someone who is overly grateful and overly kind, because I tend to say thank you for the smallest of things and I tend to be too kind to people. But anyway, I'm thirty-three-ish and I come from one of the smallest countries in the world, and the reason why I am here is because

I want to meet people from all walks of life, from all parts of the world, I want to meet you guys, strike up a chat, befriend, etc. So, if you're interested, if you find me interesting enough, you know where I am, you know where to find me. Blessings =)

[Nicole]

Hi, everyone! I'm Nicole and, I believe that pretty much like all of you here, I wish to explore more of the world through the power of literature! This group was an accidental find (thank you, Lily Hammond), but I can see myself having a lot of fun here, as well as adding many more books to my to-read list! :D

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Inkwoman wrote: "Hi, everyone! I'm Nicole and, I believe that pretty much like all of you here, I wish to explore more of the world through the power of literature! This group was an accidental find (thank you, Lil..."

Hi, Nicole! Welcome to the group!

[Gina]

Hi there! I joined this group some time ago, but helping my two kids with disabilities manage remote-schooling while juggling two jobs left little time for reading. So glad to see that a group read for The Power is happening next week - and by amazing coincidence I just borrowed it from my local library! I haven't participated in a group read with this Around the World before...is there a specific discussion I should join, or a way to interact with other group members who are reading it at the same time? Thanks! Gina

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Gina! Welcome to the group!
There are discussion threads for each book, when the time comes to read them.
You sound like a very busy person, Gina. I hope you get more chance to read soon!

[Sarah]

Hi

What a great idea for a group - I love travelling slowly when I can, to get to know places well and I love travelling through books. When I can I try to read books featuring the places I’m travelling in and then read more after I get home.

Home is currently the south of England but from the autumn will be the Falkland Islands for a work contract for a while.

[Gina]

Rosemarie wrote: "Hi, Gina! Welcome to the group!
There are discussion threads for each book, when the time comes to read them.
You sound like a very busy person, Gina. I hope you get more chance to read soon!"

Thanks, Rosemarie!

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Sarah, welcome to the group. I enjoy travelling and reading books about places I'm going to visit as well, or novels set in those places.

[Jovan]

Ciao Lemon

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Lemon!

[DrWJK]

Hi Everyone! I just joined. I'm DrWJK. Political scientist. Read widely. Been doing research on China as a political system for last year or so. I'll get there one day. Hope folks will read my book reviews and comment.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...
William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
https://interpretat.blogspot.com/
@InterpretivePo1

[DrWJK]

Hi Lemon! Thanks for the greeting.

[Mike]

I'm Mike. The wife and I have retired early from the city and now live in a lush, green, rainy, valley of Wales. We never did enjoy the city too much and the arrival of Covid gave us time to assess our situation. We read and have done for years and years and, prior to Coved, over wine and nibbles we'd discuss our choices with a group of friends.
Now, without that indulgence we decided - on advice from a good friend - to join an online bookclub. Our best wishes to all.

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Mike. Welcome to the group! Your home sounds wonderful!

[Anna]

Hello Everyone, I am Anna from the US, state of Montana, so I am Anna from Montana. I live and work in North Africa and I love learning new cultures and places. Since I can't go every where in person I love to travel and learn vicariously through reading.

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Anna. Welcome to the group!

[John]

Hello, I’m John. From a career in design engineering, once the mortgage was paid, I took early retirement and with a large garden/orchard have become almost self sufficient: my responsibilities at present rest with a small group of not-so-able hedgehogs. The neighbours became aware that I was caring for a hog with one-eye and a hospice seemed to blossom from there. Returning to university, I read history and that led me to such works as: The Great Game - The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, On Secret Service East of Constantinople - The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire, and the like; all of which gripped me and I class as exceptional thriller/suspense/mysteries. My grandmother on my mother’s side was White Russian and as a youngster she left Russia in 1921 under the care of her father and mother - her father was killed in Ukraine - and she made the crossing from France to Blighty with her mother in November of 1923: from their accounts the journey across Europe was most harrowing. My mother has the family book and the the dairies of both her grandparents - I have often thought of creating a manuscript from those, but feel unqualified and not able to do justice to their story. There is no mention in my great-grandparent’s memoirs of escape lines and safe houses, but my grandmother, during her later years with what she excused as her failing memory, often spoke of ‘the kindest of people’ and how they are the only reason she survived. I spend time researching escape-lines, underground networks and life-in-the shadows. I won’t claim a need to find evidence of who might have helped my grandmother, as I am content with a desire to more fully understand the ways and means by which many sought to resist oppression even in the face of the great risk to them and their family. I yearn for well-researched, real-life thrillers focused on 20th Century Europe.

[Rosemarie]

Hi, John. Welcome to the group.
It sounds like you have plenty of material for an interesting book.

[Beth]

I am Bethany (I answer to Beth) and I’m a farmer’s girl. The family have a farm here in Ireland and I just adore the life. I have a great family, Mum and Dad and three bothers: none of whom read.

I’m not happy with noisy places, so avoid the pubs and clubs: I fell off a horse when I was young and banged my tiny brain quite hard (weeks in the hospital, as I couldn’t remember too much after it) although the doctors don’t believe or know if that has anything to do with it - I just get wrinkly in crowded, noisy places.

My brothers are all married and their wives are great; me, …. I’m in my early twenties and intend to avoid that BIG STEP for a good few years yet.

My reading has gone all over the place since school; of late - and why I joined Goodreads - I have the urge for exciting recent history accounts and true to life stories: it started by reading, ‘Out of Africa’. A few books later I came upon, ’Touching the Void’, which took my breath away. My eldest brother is a climber (not so much now, as he has a daughter), but that was better than any thriller I had read. I really enjoy reading about girls that have done good and although I’m sure I’ll never stray too far from the farm, I do dream of what some women have achieved. Stories of SOE girls and the like are becoming my favourite right now.

I hope to pick up tips from y’all, who’ve probably been at it far longer than me.

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Beth! Welcome to the group!

[Antonio]

"Consider your seed: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge." (Dante)

Hello there everybody! Please accept my introduction.

When I left teaching, over twenty years now, I attended an online course at the University of London, "Institute of Education".

In the final dissertation I coined the acronym C.A.C. which stands for Connection → Access → Control. If you have a connection you can have access to the World and check what you want.

I am a digital dinosaur, I learned to read and write in the family typography, in the ancient Valley of the Sarrasti, not far from Pompei, south Italy.

Originals or plagiarists we are novelists of ourselves, so I wrote in a book that I published in print, also present on the Internet Archive

I have been surfing the Net since the Commodore 64 and I know the difficulty of reading.

If I had to sum up many years of reading and writing, I would also like to affirm the right not to read in order to oppose the right to read.

Perhaps I would betray my Father's century, he didn't write books, he “made them”.

He was a composer, a printer, a binder, he had a heart that was a book. I, after a long time, I try not to be a robot.

I can't help but express the need to think. I do it in all the digital spaces that I have been able to attend in recent decades after I left school and active teaching.

I realized that I had become part of a global brain. I am increasingly convinced that we are what we read.

Between libraries and library therapies, I express my digital idea in my blog between Machiavelli and McLuhan.

You can meet strange travel companions among the books ...

My digital library is on GoodReads, my daily life on Facebook, after the disappearance of G + I returned to MEDIUM. My images are on Pinterest.

Please do good, be well, take care and keep in touch.

Thank you for reading.

[Rosemarie]

Hello, Antonio!

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Antonio wrote: ""Consider your seed: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge." (Dante)

Hello there everybody! Please accept my introduction.

When I left teaching, over twenty y..."

Hi Antonio, welcome to the group!

[Antonio]

How many times does the reading of a book trigger a curiosity aroused by the subject, by the setting or by the protagonists? How many times does a book generate a falling in love with a theme, a historical event, a place? Extended Book was created to nourish this desire to know and discover, transforming the book into a starting point rather than an arrival point. Extended Book, the new standard for book publishing around the world. We are all writing an extended book here ...

[Poppy]

Hello, I'm Poppy.
I work in hospitality: a plush establishment, patronised by more gentle, conservative folk. I work. I walk. I read. I work. I walk. I read.
I don't know just yet what I really wanted to read, I'm just picking books from the small library where I work. I hope to find friends and share thoughts on what I do read.
I'm very new to this: I'm all ears or should I say, "All eyes."

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Poppy! Welcome to the group!

[Luffy Sempai]

Hi everyone, long time registered lurking. I am going to ask a couple of questions here because I didn't find a FAQ at first glance, and other threads were too dormant.

Q1 : How many books is the average number for a yearly challenge? Are everyone pledging 80 reads? I intend to be a Frequent Flyer and would like that question clarified.

Q2 : How many % of the number I pledge will be admissible for a given country/region? Say I read 30 books from Europe with 10 coming from England only... is that frowned upon? Hope you get the picture.

RSVP. And Happy Reading.

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Luffy. I think the majority of books I read are from England, so I'm doing the Tourist Challenge, which means only 24 different countries. I do plenty of re-visits to other countries as well.

[Luffy Sempai]

Rosemarie wrote: "Hi, Luffy. I think the majority of books I read are from England, so I'm doing the Tourist Challenge, which means only 24 different countries. I do plenty of re-visits to other countries as well."

Thank you, Rosemarie. You have helped me. I will do the Tourist challenge.

[Luffy Sempai]

I still would like to know if Frequent Flyer has a minimum of 80 books.

I'm asking this because I am doing FF challenge next year.

[Rosemarie]

For the Frequent Flyer you need to visit 80 different countries, in all regions, starting from your own countries. I've done it a couple of times and it was a hard challenge requiring lots of planning.
So to visit 80 countries you need to read at least 80 books.

[Luffy Sempai]

Rosemarie wrote: "For the Frequent Flyer you need to visit 80 different countries, in all regions, starting from your own countries. I've done it a couple of times and it was a hard challenge requiring lots of plann..."

Thanks again, owe you one.

[Rosemarie]

You're welcome.

[Stefanie]

Hello everyone! I'm Stef, a Spanish teacher living in Pittsburgh (USA). I love traveling, and I love reading travel memoirs. I'm interested in the challenges discussed here- do the books have to be travel books, or is any book from an international author eligible? I honestly don't read much fiction, but if anyone has recommendations for fiction books that really immerse you in a place, I'm interested! Thanks!

[Luffy Sempai]

Stefanie wrote: "Hello everyone! I'm Stef, a Spanish teacher living in Pittsburgh (USA). I love traveling, and I love reading travel memoirs. I'm interested in the challenges discussed here- do the books have to be..."

Hi Stefanie! I'm new here too. The books can be of any genre, whether fiction or not. The book has to be BASED in the country of your challenge.

E.g. currently I am reading The Second Sex and it is not legitimate for the challenge because it is not happening in the country of France. So I am not putting it in my book count. Hope that helps.

PS - I am soon to learn Spanish properly (I know a few words).

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Stef! Welcome to the group!

The group's moderator, Diane, has compiled numerous lists for books set in different countries, first by region, then by countries in that region.
It's an amazing resource. And the books can be any genre for the travel challenges.

[Stefanie]

Luffy wrote: "Stefanie wrote: "Hello everyone! I'm Stef, a Spanish teacher living in Pittsburgh (USA). I love traveling, and I love reading travel memoirs. I'm interested in the challenges discussed here- do the..."

Hi Luffy!

Okay, I understand. This sounds really cool! I would love to try some fiction set in other cultures. Thanks for your response!

[Stefanie]

Rosemarie wrote: "Hi, Stef! Welcome to the group!

The group's moderator, Diane, has compiled numerous lists for books set in different countries, first by region, then by countries in that region.
It's an amazing r..."

Hi Rosemary!

Thank you for your response! I will definitely check out that list.

[Luffy Sempai]

Stefanie wrote: "Luffy wrote: "Stefanie wrote: "Hello everyone! I'm Stef, a Spanish teacher living in Pittsburgh (USA). I love traveling, and I love reading travel memoirs. I'm interested in the challenges discusse..."

You're welcome.

[Tamara]

Hi everyone,

I'm a college professor, a mom and a yoga teacher. I'm currently working on developing a course in travel narratives that will be offered in the fall.

Has anyone read Sara Wheeler's books? And can anyone recommend any other books on travel to the Arctic/Antarctic?

[Rosemarie]

Hi, Tamara. Welcome to the group!

[Tamara]

Thanks Rosemarie!

[Christine]

Welcome, Tamara.

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Tamara wrote: "Hi everyone,

I'm a college professor, a mom and a yoga teacher. I'm currently working on developing a course in travel narratives that will be offered in the fall.

Has anyone read Sara Wheeler's ..."

Hi, Tamara! Welcome to the group! I have not read any of Sara Wheeler's books. I also have not read any books on recent travel to the Arctic or Antarctica, just the classic texts about the first expeditions. Were you interested in a particular time period?