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[Daisy]

Swimming to Elba takes place in Piombino, Italy. I'm listening to an audio version of this and I am not crazy about it. I wonder if anyone else has chosen this for her Italy portion.

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In Micronesia with Some Things of Value: Micronesian Customs as Seen by Micronesians, Revised Edition.

[Lara]

I loved The Shadow of the Wind--one of my favorites this year!

Right now I'm listening to Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. Pretty amusing so far! It's nice having a light, humorous read for a change; I've read several very tragic stories in the last month or so...

[Vizara]

I'm going to start in Somalia with Black Mamba Boy

[Shomeret]

I'm currently in Romania with Painter of Silenceby Georgina Harding. I'm finding it very compelling. I'm already halfway through.

[Daisy]

This food memoir is all over the place: Paris, New York, Boston, Italy, Berlin... with recipes!
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)

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I'm reading . I'm in Louisiana near the Mississippi river.It's a good mystery.

[Sylvia]

I reviewed my goal and set it to 42 a couple of weeks ago. I've reached that goal today and I will continue to read for this challenge and update my goal when I finished another country. I'm now reading The Teacher of Cheops for Andorra, which might seem a bit odd, but the author lives there. A second book I'm reading is Tranen van de woestijn for Darfur(Sudan). So my goal for 2012 will increase with another two books.

[Sylvia]

Pam wrote: "The book i am reading takes me all over so far Rome, Crete, Syria, what is now Hungry just to mention a few."

Hi Pam, sounds an interesting trip. Can you tell me the title. I might be interested too.

[Sylvia]

Pam wrote: "I would post book /arthur info but it does not have in listed ."

You mean it is not in GR?

[Barbarac]

I'm currently in Botswana with a mystery, A Carrion Death and Iceland with The Greenhouse. The mystery as always is fun, but I'm surprisingly enjoying The Greenhouse, specially since I don't remember where I got the idea for this book, or if somebody recommended it to me. I'm assuming I thought it was about plants, and since I love to garden...

[Barbarac]

Oh, i forgot, I'm also listening to People of the Book which I can't use towards this challenge, but it takes place in Bosnia, Italy and Spain. And while I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction (despite the fact that I keep reading it), I have to say this book is keeping me very entertained.

[Sylvia]

Barbarac wrote: "Oh, i forgot, I'm also listening to People of the Book which I can't use towards this challenge, but it takes place in Bosnia, Italy and Spain. And while I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction (..."



People of the Book was one of the first book I read recommended to me on GR. I pick up the Dutch version of it and I agree with you it keeps you interested. I loved the swaps in the story between the past and the present.

[Vizara]

Currently I'm in Czechoslovakia with HHhH which is amazing. It's about the Heydrich assassination in Prague during WW2.

[Sue]

I really liked Out Stealing Horses. In fact, I plan to read it again at some point.

[Diane]

In Gambia with Tubob: Two Years in West Africa with the Peace Corps.

I'm realizing that Africa seems just endless. You could read 52 books and still be in Africa. 8 out of 9 of the last books I have read have been in Africa.

[Janice]

I've made the trip to Holland and back in time to meet Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life.

[Melissa]

Janice, Lust for Life sounds interesting.

[Sue]

Just finished Dracula which I was going to use for Romania...until I realized I already have a book for that country. Oh well, I enjoyed Dracula so much it doesn't matter.

[Janice]

Melissa wrote: "Janice, Lust for Life sounds interesting."

I'm not very far into the book, but it's good so far. Van Gogh seems to be quite morose, and I'm wondering about the title, Lust for Life.

[Shomeret]

I'm in Morocco hearing people talk about Raisuli and wondering if I've landed on the set of the movie "The Wind and the Lion" in which Raisuli was played by Sean Connery, but the book is the Mary Russell mystery Garment of Shadowsby Laurie R. King

[Diane]

In Bulgaria with Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Phew, I feel like it has been a while since I've read for this challenge. I'm heading to Libya with two books - The Bleeding of the Stone and In the Country of Men.

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I'm in Georgia with Fazil Iskander's Sandro Of Chegem and Benin with Olympe Bhely-Quenum's Snares Without End.

[Shomeret]

I'm in Malaysia withThe Garden of Evening Mists.

[Rusalka]

Shomeret wrote: "I'm in Malaysia withThe Garden of Evening Mists."

Ooo tell me how that goes. I bought it on a whim and then the sellers cancelled my original Malaysian book. So I'm taking it as a sign it was meant to be! Now it has to be a good book to live up to my notion of fate.

[Sue]

Not sure if I've written this before, but I'm in Lebanon with Gate of the Sun. This also takes place in Palestine but I've already read a book for that Territory.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Shomeret wrote: "I'm in Malaysia withThe Garden of Evening Mists."
Oh I liked that one, and I'm interested to see what you think.

[Shomeret]

@ Rusalka and Jenny-- I am comparing The Garden of Evening Miststo Tan Twan Eng's previous book, The Gift of Rainas I thought I would. They are actually very different books. The Gift of Rain takes place during WWII, but this book is about memory and is retrospective. It's necessarily more distanced, so it has less dramatic intensity. I haven't gotten very far with it though. I'm not quite sure what I think about it.

[Shomeret]

Today I left Malaysia for the day and took what looks like a detour to Guatemala. This book comes from Net Galley which has been batting a thousand so far on providing me with some really good reading. This one, The Iguana Speaks My Name, has a lovely review from Kirkus at https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re... . It has a great deal of Guatemalan cultural content, but it's not hooking me. I think it may be me and not the book. It's still my Kindle read. I'm going to give it some more time before I decide to give up on it. Besides, I'd like to have my Guatemala book behind me.

[Vizara]

I'm still in Botswana with Twenty Chickens For A Saddle which was unintended but once I started I had to continue so I'm about halfway. Then yesterday I started in Peru with Bel Canto

[Barbarac]

I'm just beginning in Finland with True.

[Shomeret]

Shomeret wrote: "@ Rusalka and Jenny-- I am comparing The Garden of Evening Miststo Tan Twan Eng's previous book, The Gift of Rainas I thought I would. They are actually very different books. The Gift of Rain tak..."

Today I'm feeling much more positive about The Garden of Evening Mistsbut the appeal for me is intellectual not emotional.

[Shomeret]

This Thursday I commuted between Malaysia and Guatemala. I re-read about 20% of The Iguana Speaks My Name and now feel that it's fulfilling some of my expectations. But when I got to Malaysia I must have felt jet lagged because I absorbed nothing of the pages of The Garden of Evening Miststhat I read.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm heading to China with Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan, the recent Nobel prizewinner. I also picked up a lighter read for China - Shark's Fin And Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China.

[Friederike]

Sue wrote: "I really liked Out Stealing Horses. In fact, I plan to read it again at some point."

I agree, Sue, this is a great book! I didn't like "To Siberia" that much, though.

[Friederike]

I left Haiti with Dany Laferriere's The Return, and moved on to Djibuti with Abdourahman A. Waberi.

[Sue]

Friederike wrote: "Sue wrote: "I really liked Out Stealing Horses. In fact, I plan to read it again at some point."

I agree, Sue, this is a great book! I didn't like "To Siberia" that much, though."

I'm going to give his other books a try, but then I know I can always come back to Out Stealing Horses if I don't care for the others.

[Shomeret]

I'm about to visit somewhere in Africa with Jane by Robin Maxwell. It takes place in 1905 and no country is specified so far. I hope to be able to figure out the country from geographical features as I have with other books. If it turns out to be somewhere I haven't been for this challenge, it will count.

[Diane]

Shomeret wrote: "I'm about to visit somewhere in Africa with Jane by Robin Maxwell. It takes place in 1905 and no country is specified so far. I hope to be able to figure out the country from geographical feature..."

This might be too much logical leaping, but my copy of Tarzan of the Apes has a map in the front indicating the setting of the book to be in Sierra Leone. Perhaps Jane takes place there or near there as well.

[Shomeret]

Diane wrote: "Shomeret wrote: "I'm about to visit somewhere in Africa with Jane by Robin Maxwell. It takes place in 1905 and no country is specified so far. I hope to be able to figure out the country from geo..."

The country has been mentioned. Janetakes place in Gabon. Maybe it should take place in Sierra Leone, but the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate authorized the book and apparently doesn't object to the setting being Gabon. Since I haven't been to Gabon, I can use it for the challenge.

[Diane]

Shomeret wrote: "Diane wrote: "Shomeret wrote: "I'm about to visit somewhere in Africa with Jane by Robin Maxwell. It takes place in 1905 and no country is specified so far. I hope to be able to figure out the co..."

Even better. Gabon is a tough country to find books for.

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Try Daniel Mengara's Mema for Gabon.

I'm in Georgia with Sandro of Chegem. It was not the Fazil Iskander I wanted, but is what was available.

[Janice]

I'm not sure where to go next. Oh, wait. I'm in Syria during the Armenian genecide with The Sandcastle Girls. I was busy trying to wrap up Lust for Life that I forgot I was in the middle of The Sandcastle Girls. I'll get back to it tonight.

[Diane]

In Tuvalu with Logs In The Current Of The Sea: Neli Lifuka's Story Of Kioa And The Vaitupu Colonists by Neli Lifuka.

[Friederike]

I interrupted my time at Paris' airport with a story, Transit, by Abdourahman Waberi to travel to Rwanda with Gilbert Gatore and his debut novel THE PAST AHEAD. Sorry, I can't get the links to work at the moment.

[Vizara]

Started in Iraq and Afghanistan with the SEALS in No Easy Day and after having read 50% I find that I have to force myself to continue.

[Rusalka]

In Thailand with The Windup Girl. Really been looking forward to this book. Hoping it lives up to my high expectations.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Rusalka wrote: "In Thailand with The Windup Girl. Really been looking forward to this book. Hoping it lives up to my high expectations."
It took me 100 pages to get into it, so beware. Most think it is worth it in the end.

[Sue]

Currently reading Outsider in Amsterdam in my continuing attempt to work in 2 more books to meet my goal of 30 books for this year.