Where in the World Are You?!?! (Currently Reading) Showing 951-1,000 of 1,227

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Booooo

[Dee]

Currently on my way to explore the outer reaches of China and to climb Mount Everest with Peter Jenkins in "Across China". Loving the trip.

Also in Vietnam. Reading letters sent home in "Dear America" during the terrible war. Hits a little close to home, now that my son is in the Canadian Army and wanting to "get into the action".

[Rusalka]

Shomeret wrote: "I can't view it on You Tube either, Yrinsyde. Even the Phyrne Fisher You Tubes are only for Australians."

Stupid interwebz and it's restrictions... well if you are really keen you could always *cough*torrent*cough* ;)

[Beth]

In Zimbabwe: The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition, in Tibet: The Compassionate Life, and in Canada: Fugitive Pieces.

[Rebecca]

Still wading through The Annotated Emma, I don't know why I am having such a trial with it. (Grumble)

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From Togo to Bolivia: Tania: Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm back in North Korea after my flight around the world yesterday, 1/4 into The Orphan Master's Son

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Osho wrote: "From Togo to Bolivia: Tania: Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia."

Bag that--the author's Cuban. Instead, Andean Journeys: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Bolivian Poetry on the Nook.

[RG]

Splitting time between communist Bulgaria with Zift: A Noir Novel, and Haiti with Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

[Yrinsyde]

You can always buy it - the ABC do international shipping http://shop.abc.net.au/promos/miss-fi...

Shomeret wrote: "I can't view it on You Tube either, Yrinsyde.

[Diane]

In Gabon under a Tropic Moon and also in Albania with The Successor.

[[deleted user]]

Now waiting for Escaping the Invasion to arrive as I was unhappy with my Kuwait selection.

[Beth]

Getting to my Samoa read, which I am happy to have received awhile back as a gift! I'm about a third of the way into Where We Once Belonged and am liking it so far.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm taking a quick trip to Denmark with The Library of Shadows? I hope to get to more Danish authors, since I am 1/4 Danish!

[Barbarac]

I have finally moved out of the Europe/Africa/Asia block and travelled to the Americas, yes! I'm reading What the Moon Saw, Mexico. Well, and waiting for A Fine Balance, India to become available in my library again so I can finish the last 50 pages I had left! Grrrrr, so frustrating.

[Daisy]

Finland with True.

[Sharon]

I'm in Japan, with Kitchen, and so far, I'm loving the visit!

[Diane]

Reading The Cellist of Sarajevo. Great book so far. Also reading The Green Shore for Greece (again), and Setting Out: The Education of Li-Li, for Taiwan.

[Marcie]

Heading to Easter Island with Easter Island

[RG]

Spending time in Pakistan, in A Case of Exploding Mangoes

[Sharon]

I've left Japan (but long to return!) and am now in the Middle East with The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East.

[Barbarac]

Diane wrote: "Reading The Cellist of Sarajevo. Great book so far. Also reading The Green Shore for Greece (again), and Setting Out: The Education of Li-Li, for Taiwan."
I am also reading The Cellist of Sarajevo and liking it so far.

[Rebecca]

I finished with my selection for England, and now I am onwards to Cuba, with Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. I need something funny after reading Jeffrey Archer's pomposity and flat writing.

[Shomeret]

Judy wrote: "I'm in Laos with the second in Colin Cotterill's trilogy, Thirty-Three Teeth."

It's more than a trilogy, Judy. There are eight Dr. Siri novels. I've read them all.

[Rusalka]

I am cheating for this read and reading Zorro for Chile. I know it is set in Mexico and California, but I need to read things on my bookshelf before buying any more books. So going with the author's nationality on this one. Also I loved The House of the Spirits, so I thought I should read another of hers...

I think I feel guilty about this, look at all that justification!

[Sue]

Rusalka wrote: "I am cheating for this read and reading Zorro for Chile. I know it is set in Mexico and California, but I need to read things on my bookshelf before buying any more books. So going with the author'..."

Hey with all the reading you're doing, I'll buy all your justifications. This is a NO GUILT ZONE!!

[Shomeret]

Rusalka wrote: "I am cheating for this read and reading Zorro for Chile. I know it is set in Mexico and California, but I need to read things on my bookshelf before buying any more books. So going with the author'..."

As a fan of Zorro, I have to say that Isabel Allende's version has become my favorite. Though Tara Chevrestt is about to release her book Maiden Behind the Mask which is an irresistible possibility. Too bad I've already read a book for Mexico.

[Rusalka]

Sue wrote: "Hey with all the reading you're doing, I'll buy all your justifications. This is a NO GUILT ZONE!!"

I love it! Thanks for quashing my guilt slightly :D

[Rusalka]

Shomeret wrote: "As a fan of Zorro, I have to say that Isabel Allende's version has become my favorite."

Thanks Shomeret. I was wondering as I hadn't heard great things about the book, but I am enjoying. Lets see how it goes. That other book looks like a lot of fun though... and Sue did just say it's a guilt free zone... ;)

[Beth]

Just downloaded Caim for Portugal. Needed an audiobook, since I just finished The White Tiger. This one isn't on the 1001 list, but I like Saramago, so I'm just going for it.

[Kimberly]

I'm in Nairobi, Kenya in Nairobi Heat by Mukoma wa Ngugi

[Mira]

I'm in Russia with The Idiot

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Marcie wrote: "Heading to Easter Island with Easter Island"
I have that on my shelf, so I'm curious what you think.

I started The News from Paraguay because I've had Paraguay on my mind, and need to start The House of the Spirits soon; my first readalong with this group I guess! It looks like I'll be hanging out in Latin America for a bit.

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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya: The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Text for Guatemala, since I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala is another of the books I bought for the challenge that turns out to include misrepresentations of and lies about the subject's experiences.

[RG]

Thanks to an unplanned absence of electricity last night, I was able to complete my journeys through Bulgaria (Zift: A Noir Novel) and Pakistan (A Case of Exploding Mangoes), so I'm off to Mali to see about The Fortunes of Wangrin

[Diane]

In Bhutan with Married to Bhutan, Cape Verde with The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo, an Turkey with The Bastard of Istanbul.

[Jody]

In Mexico, reading The Lacuna

[Rusalka]

Jody wrote: "In Mexico, reading The Lacuna"

Yay! Enjoy.

[Sharon]

I keep reading books that won't count for the challenge! I just put aside The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, which would count as I have not read anything for Israel/Palestine yet, and am instead reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which won't count as I already read Kitchen for Japan. But I got intrigued by the comments in the group read section, and so now I've literally and figuratively gone astray (which seems to be something of a theme in the book...).

I'm not sorry, though. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a truly fascinating read! Of course, the discussion was for June and it's now July so I'm not even getting in on the conversation, but I'm enjoying the book and that's the whole point, isn't it!

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Sharon wrote: "I keep reading books that won't count for the challenge! I just put aside The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, which would count as I have not read anything for Israel/..."
Sharon - make up your rules and let them count. :)

I loved both of those Japanese books. I really enjoy Japanese literature in general, I'm finding, or perhaps I just never had much opportunity to read it before.

[Sue]

Sharon wrote: "I keep reading books that won't count for the challenge! I just put aside The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, which would count as I have not read anything for Israel/..."

Don't worry. If you make a comment in the discussion for "Wind Up Bird" I'll bet one of us will respond. That's the beauty of the always open threads here at GR.

By the way, The Lemon Tree was one of my favorite books of last year. I also recommend It's Easier To Reach Heaven Than The End Of The Street: A Jerusalem Memoir. This book is written from an entirely different viewpoint of what has happened in Jerusalem on the 2000s.

[Sharon]

Jenny wrote: "Sharon wrote: "I keep reading books that won't count for the challenge! I just put aside The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, which would count as I have not read anyth..."

Same here, I'm finding I'm loving Japanese literature. This really is my first foray into the field, though. Have you read anything else you'd recommend?

[Janice]

Sharon wrote: "I keep reading books that won't count for the challenge! I just put aside The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, which would count as I have not read anything for Israel/..."

I'm the same way. I've got 3 books on the go, but not one of them counts towards this challenge.

[Sue]

Gaeta1 wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Sharon wrote: "I keep reading books that won't count for the challenge! I just put aside The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, which would c..."

Gaeta, thanks for mentioning The Makioka Sisters. That's one I've wanted to read. I think I'll put in a request for it.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Still reading The House of the Spirits and enjoying it, but also started an ARC I got of City of Women, taking me through Berlin during WW2.

[Diane]

In Estonia with The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov, which is quite enjoyable.

[Shomeret]

I'm in Kenya finding out about dragons in Kikiyu stories in Unbowedby Wangari Mathai.

[Rusalka]

In Burma with Saving Fish from Drowning. I'm a 10th in, and I'm giving it until we get to Burma. I'm apprehensive.

[RG]

In Iraq with The Traveler and the Innkeeper, but I'll also be taking a side trip to Puerto Rico to observe Cortijo's Wake / El entierro de Cortijo

[Melissa]

I'm in Afghanistan with The Bookseller of Kabul.