Where in the World Are You?!?! (Currently Reading) Showing 1,101-1,150 of 1,227

[Mikki]

I'm in Russia, stuck once again. Fell in love with The Master and Margarita and am now reading alternate translations as well as other books by him -- Heart of a Dog and The White Guard. Also have some short stories going The Red Passport that I'm enjoying. I might be here for a while.

[Mikki]

Marieke wrote: "I forgot that I'm also in Ireland with Skippy Dies and I'll soon be in Sierra Leone. I hope. I can't keep up with my books, it seems."

Oh, yeah, I forgot that Skippy was in Dublin! I'm starting that in October though I do already have Ireland mapped out. *sigh*

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Mikki wrote: "I'm in Russia, stuck once again. Fell in love with The Master and Margarita and am now reading alternate translations as well as other books by him -- Heart of a Dog and The White Guard. Also hav..."
I love that you are reading two translations!!!

[Marieke]

Mikki--I had something else for Ireland, but then...lol

[Mikki]

Jenny wrote: "I love that you are reading two translations!!! "

Maybe three! I'd like to compare the censored version to the translated in order to see what was deemed offensive or "dangerous" at the time. :)


Marieke wrote: "Mikki--I had something else for Ireland, but then...lol"

If it works, it works, but we can always revisit! :)

[Friederike]

Mikki wrote: "I'm in Russia, stuck once again. Fell in love with The Master and Margarita and am now reading alternate translations as well as other books by him -- Heart of a Dog and The White Guard. Also hav..."

Great reading choices, Mikki. I read M&M and compared 2 translations. Interesting. I still treasure a Russian version, but my Russian is too rusty to attempt reading and comparing. I never got into the other two you mention. Look forward to your take on them.

[Beth]

I'm in Argentina with Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Beth wrote: "I'm in Argentina with Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges."
Ooh Beth do you have the one with the shiny cover? I started it but it got set aside; still want to read it!

[Sharon]

I'm about to debark from Belgium to begin what looks to be a long roundabout trip to Byzantium. I'll be sailing with the former servant but now quite wealthy merchant/courier/informant/spy, Niccolo. Otherwise known as Nicholas or Claes. This guy is seriously one of my all time favourite literary characters!

Who know what will happen next in The Spring of the Ram

[Beth]

Jenny wrote: "Beth wrote: "I'm in Argentina with Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges."
Ooh Beth do you have the one with the shiny cover? I started it but it got set aside; still want to read it!"

I think it is the cover you are talking about. The nice thing about Borges is you don't have to read it straight through. Lots of cool very short things.

[Friederike]

I am in Sierra Leone reading (finally) Aminatta Forna's Ancestor Stones: A Novel

[Barbarac]

I've had a few days of inactivity, with a crazy virus and then strep throat going thru my house. I got no reading, and finally last night I was able to get back to Zimbabwe withAfrican Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe and this morning to Egypt with Sipping from the Nile. Yes, I have a "nightstand book" and a "carpool book".

[Marcie]

I'm heading to England with The Woman in White

[Barbarac]

Marcie wrote: "I'm heading to England with The Woman in White"

Good one Marcie! I hope you enjoy it.

[Janice]

I'm on my way to Easter Island with The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island.

Now I'll be humming Johnny Cash... I'll be walking, out after midnight... la la la la.

[Beth]

In Uraguay with Faces and Masks. Read the first in this series last year and really liked it.

[Rusalka]

Janice wrote: "I'm on my way to Easter Island with The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island.

Now I'll be humming Johnny Cash... I'll be walking, out after midnight... la la la la."

You poor thing. I HATE Johnny Cash. With a passion.

We went travelling around New Zealand (only the south island) about 5 years ago, and it drove us mental the amount of Johnny Cash that was played in places we had to eat. Just after the damn movie.

[Janice]

Rusalka wrote: "You poor thing. I HATE Johnny Cash. With a passion...."


LOL! I can't say that he's a favorite, but some tunes have a way of sticking.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Just started Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil. I'm reading it because it is on the Booker shortlistbut I'm going to count it for India since I haven't read anything from there this year. The first chapter is one 7-page sentence!

[Rusalka]

Oh wow!

[Barbarac]

I'm reading several books at once right now. Just started The Old Man Who Read Love Stories in Ecuador. It's a short-read, less than 200 pages and I'm really enjoying it right now.

[Shomeret]

Friederike wrote: "I am in Sierra Leone reading (finally) Aminatta Forna's Ancestor Stones: A Novel"

Friederike, I have also decided to journey to Sierra Leone with Ancestor Stones: A Novelwhich is where I am now.

[Val]

Barbarac wrote: "I'm reading several books at once right now. Just started The Old Man Who Read Love Stories in Ecuador. It's a short-read, less than 200 pages and I'm really enjoying it right now."

That looks good. I will add it to my 'global extras'.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Judy wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Just started Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil. I'm reading it because it is on the Booker shortlistbut I'm going to count it for India since I haven't read anything from there this year. The first chapter..."

There's a one-page sentence in My Name is Red that I thought was long! "

Luckily, the rest of the book doesn't look to be all one-chapter sentences. Phew!

[Shomeret]

Judy wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Just started Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil. I'm reading it because it is on the Booker shortlistbut I'm going to count it for India since I haven't read anything from there this year. The..."

Last night in my F2F book club there was a member who was enthusing about her recent discovery of the work of Orhan Pamuk. I did try to read My Name is Red. Yet it's obvious that he does have his fans.

[Barbarac]

Well, still in Zimbabwe with African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe, it's not a book I can breeze thru, it makes me think a lot and makes me research other fascinating subjects.
Also, I started reading The Woman at the Light: A Novel and I have decided to make it my US read. I was going to go for a biography of a president instead, or something a little bit more serious, but this novel does have slavery as a main subject so I think it's serious enough.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm halfway in the Dominican Republic with This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, listening to the audio read by the author.

[Beth]

Jenny wrote: "I'm halfway in the Dominican Republic with This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, listening to the audio read by the author."

Friend of mine loved that one. Are you liking it???

[windy]

Currently in Iran/Persia with Samarkand and a few other places...

And a request: I've been looking for something from Guinea (not New Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, or Guinea-Bissau), any suggestions anyone?

[RG]

Just wrapped up my visit to Trinidad with The Dragon Can't Dance, and I have to say it wasn't at all what I was expecting, one of my favorite books for this challenge so far.

Still spending time learning about cricket in Sri Lanka and trying to track down the whereabouts of their greatest bowler in The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Beth wrote: "Jenny wrote: "I'm halfway in the Dominican Republic with This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, listening to the audio read by the author."

Friend of mine loved that one. Are you liking it???"

Absolutely!

[[deleted user]]

I want to read that one so badly, This Is How You Lose Her. I read one book by Junot Diaz. Although it was fiction, he gave detailed footnotes at the bottom of the book. Learned a lot about living under a dictator.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Hattie wrote: "I want to read that one so badly, This Is How You Lose Her. I read one book by Junot Diaz. Although it was fiction, he gave detailed footnotes at the bottom of the book. Learned a lot about living ..."
I'd be happy to send you the audiobook when I'm done... I got a review copy from the publisher and they like me to spread it around. Send me a message with your address!

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm in Malaysia with The Garden of Evening Mists, one from the Booker shortlist. It features a retiring judge who was a Japanese prisoner in the war as a teenager. The setting is gorgeous and I regret that I was so reluctant to start it.

[[deleted user]]

Slovakia with Rivers of Babylon is more entertaining than I anticipated. Lots of bashing of women, though.

[Shomeret]

I'm in Turkey in the 19th century following around a eunuch and learning some things about Turkish history with The Snake Stoneby Jason Goodwin.

[Sue]

Let's see, I'm in england with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, all over the place with Cloud Atlas and about to travel with Count Dracula wherever he goes. I'm on a merry jaunt.

And I'm side-trippiing to the southern U.S. with Flannery O'Connor's short stories and James Lee Burke's Creole Belle.

Maybe I can use a couple of these for the challenge, but they're all good so that's what counts.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Finally finished all the Booker shortlist, so now I want t churn out some more countries! I'm zipping through some shorter titles, starting with The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna for Finland.

I have a Finnish uncle, and recipes from my half Finnish cousins, so I'm hoping to pick back up on the baking project too.

[Sue]

Jenny, how do you do it?

[Beth]

Gaeta1 wrote: "I heard him read this out loud at the National Festival of the Book a few weeks ago. "

So jealous!!!

[Diane]

In Lesotho with Chaka Zulu.

[Beth]

In Japan with 1Q84. On audio, so it will be awhile, but I'm enjoying it.

[Marieke]

i'm in Brazil with The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey and Palestine with Gate of the Sun and still in Sierra Leone with Ancestor Stones: A Novel.

[Melissa]

I'm in Turkey with Tears of Pearl.

[Jo Ann]

I'm in Italy with The Book of Unholy Mischief.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm back in England, tromping around the countryside with Harold in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

[[deleted user]]

Hi Jenny,

Thanks, but I'll wait. I really would prefer to read it. Thank you so much.

[Diane]

In Guinea with The King of Kahel

[Friederike]

I am "flying" between Quebec, reading Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead, Tanzania with M.G. Vassanji's The Magic of Saida and Haiti with Dany Laferriere's L'enigme du retour.

[Barbarac]

Diane wrote: "In Guinea with The King of Kahel"

I'm currently reading this too!