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Where in the World Are You?!?! (Currently Reading)
Mikki wrote: "Anne wrote: "I just left Zimbabwe (Phew!) and am on my way to Canada. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession"O..."
A very different peek from 84 Charing Cross Road.
Kimberly wrote: "Pragya wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "I'm in 4 places at once!England in
France in
Rwanda in [bookcover:Baking Cakes ..."
I am liking them, I hope to leave France this month but I may be stuck in Rwanda for some time. What about you?
I'm enjoying France too I'd be hard pressed not to Julia is such a lovely person I'm hoping to finish it this month as well. As for Rwanda I've only read 25 pages and I like it but I think I'll be reading it for a day two next month. I like it already though.
I just left Morocco (as did the characters of the book!) in Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - I really enjoyed this book about the Muslim immigrant experience. Now I'm taking a quick trip on board the luxury liner The Titanic in The Dressmaker: A Novel before heading to Burma in The Piano Tuner. I'm not a strong swimmer, so I may have to hang out near the life-boats!
I've left Saudi Arabia, and feel much like author Hilary Mantel, who based Eight Months On Ghazzah Street on her own four-year stay in the country and who once said that the happiest moment in her life was when she left Jeddah.Have arrived in the much more congenial setting of the Cyclades, where police chief Andreas Kaldis is investigating Murder in Mykonos.
I'm still in the U.S. with the sign language interpreter, and I now know that she's in Washington D.C. Deaf clients are victims of a number of different types of crimes and her home has just been invaded. It's terribly exciting, but I certainly wouldn't want to be the central character. I'm looking forward to going to Iran next.
Just finished up in Denmark with The Boy In The Suitcase.Now I'm headed to Iran with Sky of Red Poppies.
Later tonight I will split my time between Ireland and Kenya. I'll be starting Out of Africa. Since I had a solid nap earlier this evening, I'll to be too awake to go to bed and it will be good late night reading.
Janice wrote: "Later tonight I will split my time between Ireland and Kenya. I'll be starting Out of Africa. Since I had a solid nap earlier this evening, I'll to be too awake to go to bed and it ..."That book has been on my tbr list for years...now I`m dying to start it.
Genia wrote: "I'm in Ireland with Room on a break from three books which I don't really enjoy."I'm interested to hear what you think of Room. I've read it twice. The first time, I read it through without stop. I haven't done that with many books! I know not everyone is as impressed with it as I was, so it's always interesting to me to hear how others feel about it.
Can't remember if I actually said that I had checked in in Australia with Voss. It has taken me a bit to get into it, but I think that could have had to do with travelling to NH (really, as in driving 6-7 hours each way) over the weekend with a husband who was doing a job interview (from 9 am to 10 pm for 2 days ad then 9 to 3 the day we drove home...) and a 4 year old whom I had to entertain much of the time. Today, I finally felt like I got far enough into it to get a little interested.
I've left the secret world of Haitian voodoo for the USA, back in the 1800s and the last days of slavery in [Book:Beloved|578529] by Toni Morrison.
I'm still in Biafra under the influence of Half of a Yellow Sun, which I am reading in the evenings, and I'm spending my morning walks to work in the shadows of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded. I've listened to it before, years ago, and it left such an impression that I've been wanting to revisit it for some time. This challenge seemed the perfect chance to do that. I wrote a review based on that first reading. If you're curious, you can read it here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76...It'll be interesting to see if I feel the need to change that review after I've listened to the book for a second round.
Still in South Africa with Agaat, but also now in Iran with Samarkand and the Congo with The Poisonwood Bible. Not positive I'm using Samarkand as my Iran book but may as well since I'm already reading it. I'll save my other ideas.
I traded my Rwandan read of
in for
.
I am leaving Sweden (Swedish author) during the Roman times and its persecution of the early Christian church and am going to Dominica (author born there) and reading the book, Quartet. I am also still in Germany (German author and setting) during the 1600's and the Thirty Years' War. The book representing Sweden was good.
My departure for Iran was delayed again. I was in the U.S. in Boston for the past several days dealing with magical adepts and secret conspiracies.
Survived the Titanic and now am in Burma with The Piano Tuner and, at the same time I'm in Tuscany with Restoration. You gotta love books - not only can you be in multiple locations at the same time, but I can straddle two different years! It's 1886 in Burma, and 1944 in Tuscany.
Judy wrote: "I'm in the Congo with The Poisonwood Bible."I thought you were in the lounge drinking green tea! Or were you just firing up the magic travelling armchair?
Janice wrote: "Judy wrote: "I'm in the Congo with The Poisonwood Bible."I thought you were in the lounge drinking green tea! Or were you just firing up the magic travelling armchair?"
A magical traveling armchair...so that's how it's done!
I've jumped from Iraq over to China. Right now I'm reading Red Scarf Girl. As I remembered this group I realized that it fits perfectly with my reading to get more nonfiction in my classroom at my students request, and they've asked for memoirs from kids from other cultures. Perfect! I can be reading for school AND for this group at the same time. :)
Voss and his lady admirer were boring me in Australia, so I am hopping over to the Congo with The Poisonwood Bible which should get me moving again. Then I guess I will get back to Australia and finish up Oceania...
Beth wrote: "Voss and his lady admirer were boring me in Australia, so I am hopping over to the Congo with The Poisonwood Bible which should get me moving again. Then I guess I will ge..."There are several of us reading The poisonwood Bible and I know it has it's own thread though I have to find a link.
Judy wrote: "Can't wait to trek through the leafy, green jungles and cruise down the Sepik River in a native-made? canoe. (I still have one leg in the Congo with the Poisonwood Bible.)..."Careful that you don't end up dragging that leg in the water behind the canoe. There be biting critters in those waters!
I'm in my favourite country South Africa with Kevin Richardson "the Lion Whisperer" in
and I'm loving the journey!
I was briefly in Iran, but left it very quickly. The few pages I read of Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iranconvinced me not to continue. I'll choose something else for Iran.Instead I went to Canada withKlee Wyckand it was lovely, and now I'm in the Scottish Highlands in the 1950's with A Small Death in the Great Glen which is better than expected.
I love it Judy! I've been following this guy onb facebook since I saw a documentary on him called Deadly Companions I highly recommend checking the videos out on his website http://www.lionwhisperer.co.za/ you'll be touched by the amount of trust that he and the lions share is amazing you can tell he truly loves and respect them and they him (sorry to people who don't think animals are capable of love but I for one think they are).
Shomeret wrote: "I was briefly in Iran, but left it very quickly. The few pages I read of Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iranconvinced me not to continue. I'll choose something else for Iran...."
I've wondered about A Small Death in the Great Glen. I've read pros and cons. I'm looking forward to your review.
I've left 1930s LA full of murder, porn and vice to take a very long train trip through Europe and Asia with Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar. Wish me luck!
I've bailed on two of my books - The Secret Scripture (Ireland) and Out of Africa (Kenya). As a result, I'm a little behind. I've zipped over to Bosnia and am investigating an antique book with People of the Book.
I also bailed on The Secret Scripture. William Trevor and Maeve Binchy are good, but very different writers. Binchy is great for engaging light reads. Trevor is more literary. For mystery, there Tana French's The Likeness.
Anne wrote: "I also bailed on The Secret Scripture. William Trevor and Maeve Binchy are good, but very different writers. Binchy is great for engaging light reads. Trevor is more literary. For mystery, th..."Thanks for the recommendations, Anne. I have replaced Ireland with Prague The God Complex.
I read Faithful Place and loved it. I do want to read the first two books in the series... someday. :)
I'm in The Congo with Sue and Judy. Things in our village are calm at the moment but I sense a distant rumble of trouble...The Poisonwood Bible
I'm in Holland with
in August of 1672.
Anne wrote: "I'm in Denmark with The Boy In The Suitcase."Marcie wrote: "Just finished up in Denmark with The Boy In The Suitcase."
Boy, he really gets around, no?
Mikki wrote: "Anne wrote: "I'm in Denmark with The Boy In The Suitcase."Marcie wrote: "Just finished up in Denmark with The Boy In The Suitcase."
Boy, he really gets around, no?"
LOL. He sure does.
Well, he's in a suitcase - all set for travel. :)
Anne wrote: "Well, he's in a suitcase - all set for travel. :)"haha...that he is!
I am still in South Africa, reading
by Nicolaas Vergunst... however this being a historical novel, he takes you - literally - around the world that was known at the time (around 1500 plus minus.
Friederike wrote: "I am still in South Africa, reading by Nicolaas Vergunst... however this being a historical novel, he takes you - literally - around the world that was known at t..."I've added that to my TBR list, I love Historical Fiction set in South Africa. I'm looking forward to your review of this one.
I am currently reading The Tiger's Wife which is set in an unknown Balkan country. Anyone who's read it have a suggestion for country for me to select? Thanks.
Michelle wrote: "I am currently reading The Tiger's Wife which is set in an unknown Balkan country. Anyone who's read it have a suggestion for country for me to select? Thanks."The author is born in Serbia. I haven't read the book yet (just bought it yesterday), but my guess is the "unknown balkan country" is one of the former Yugoslavian countries.
I am still in Germany of the 1600's and am off to post-colonial Senegal with So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba.
I'm in Niger with an ethnographer/apprentice sorcerer: In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger. My anthropology classes weren't quite like this.
I;'m in my home country of Canada in The Incredible Journey
and I'm going back to 1898 to Tsavo Zambia in The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
. I'm really enjoying my travels through Africa...sometimes the journey gets hard but I love it.
Osho wrote: "I'm in Niger with an ethnographer/apprentice sorcerer: In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger. My anthropology classes weren't quite like this."That sounds very interesting. I might have to look it up as my Nigeria pick, The Famished Road by Ben Okri was a bit of a fail.
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England in
France in
Rwanda in [bookcover:Baking Cakes in Kigali|608823..."
Neat :) How are you liking Rwanda and France?