Where in the World Are You?!?! (Currently Reading) Showing 301-350 of 1,227

[Janice]

I've been tempted to get that audiobook, Sharon. It sounds interesting.

[Jessamy]

Just escaped from a remote Thai island filled with stoned, crazed backpackers in The Beach. I loved every action-packed second of it though. Now off the Ukraine with Everything is Illuminated.

[Stefanie]

In the Deep South with To Kill a Mockingbird

[Jessamy]

Gaeta1 wrote: "DONE with The Bone People and off to Australia with Cloudstreet. Here's hoping the magic realism of that book isn't burdened with as much pretentious &$#@*."

As someone who is currently living in the city where
Cloudstreet is set, I think you'll like it. Some of Tim Winton books are better in my opinion. I really loved Breath

[Janice]

Gaeta1 wrote: "DONE with The Bone People and off to Australia with Cloudstreet. Here's hoping the magic realism of that book isn't burdened with as much pretentious &$#@*."

Is the "pretentions &$#@*." directed towards The Bone People?

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Wow.

[Maude]

Gaeta1, I Absolutely LOVE Cloudstreet! But with your recommendation for Breath, I am looking forward to that one, also. Thanks for the tip!

[Maude]

Oops, I think I mixed you up, Gaeta. I believe that Jessamy loved Breath - so thanks, Jessamy.

[Angela]

Just left the sunny Argentina and I off to Deutschland with Half Blood Blues.

[Suzanne]

I couldn't wait to leave Salman Rushdie's Florence, so I quickly finished The Enchantress of Florence and have now moved on to India with East of the Sun: A Novel.

[Karen]

I left North Korea with Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and am in Iceland with Jar City , but I'm not enjoying this stop on the journey. Will have to find another Iceland pick. Will stay in the USA with Dorothy Parker for a while.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Karen wrote: "I left North Korea with Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and am in Iceland with Jar City , but I'm not enjoying this stop on the journey. Will have to find another Ice..."
What don't you like about it?

[Karen]

The voice and characterizations seem very flat to me - perhaps the translation, perhaps I'm just not into the police procedural right now.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Karen wrote: "The voice and characterizations seem very flat to me - perhaps the translation, perhaps I'm just not into the police procedural right now."
Good to know. So much crime fiction from Scandinavia being translated, but it isn't like that is the only thing authors there have written! I suppose we should blame Stieg Larsson.

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Let's try Belarus with Bella Chagall's Burning Lights (illustrations by husband Marc).

[Valerie]

Currently in Tokyo and Japan has just surrendered to the Allies. The whole city is destroyed but Inspector Minami is still trying to find the murdurer of several young women. You can read all about it in Tokyo Year Zero.

[Anne]

Gaeta1 wrote: "Now in Perth with more damaged people and not one, but two terrible scenes within the first thirty pages. The writing is good and I'm thinking I won't have the same issues with Winton as I did with..."

I'm doing a collection to buy some Zoloft to get Gaeta through this year. Anybody in?

[Janice]

LOL! I'll send her some of mine. On second though, I might not have enough to share!

[Maude]

Gaeta1, Are you reading Cloudstreet? If so, hang in there, it is wonderful!

[Janice]

I'll be in Germany for another 12 hours of listening pleasure with The Book Thief, so it's not far to zip over to England and split my time between them.

I'm going to start The Real Elizabeth today. I won this on first reads so I'm going to swap out my original pick for England in favour of this one.

[Anne]

I am currently in Ireland in a mental hospital joined by a 100 y.o woman and her psychiatrist in The Secret Scripture.

[Lara]

I'm up in the air with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Wind, Sand, and Stars and loving it so far!

[Daisy]

I'm in 1914 Hungary, just outside of Budapest.
Csardas

[Anne]

Judy wrote: "Anne wrote: "Gaeta1 wrote: "Now in Perth with more damaged people and not one, but two terrible scenes within the first thirty pages. The writing is good and I'm thinking I won't have the same issu..."

Judy, I couldn't open the link.

[Vicky]

Warnie B. wrote: "I'm up in the air with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Wind, Sand, and Stars and loving it so far!"

I've got that on my list, and thinkig of reading it next.

[Lara]

Vicky wrote: "Warnie B. wrote: "I'm up in the air with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Wind, Sand, and Stars and loving it so far!"

I've got that on my list, and thinkig of reading it next."

I might have to reread The Little Prince again once I finish Wind, Sand, and Stars, since I think a lot of that book was based on experiences he details in this one!

[Anne]

Gaeta1 wrote: "Anne wrote: "Judy wrote: "Anne wrote: "Gaeta1 wrote: "Now in Perth with more damaged people and not one, but two terrible scenes within the first thirty pages. The writing is good and I'm thinking ..."

Gaeta, I can't bear it. I'm sending the Zoloft overnight to you. In the meantime you might consider adjusting your list slightly, no?

[Anne]

Gaeta1 wrote: "I am reading a cookbook for Vietnam."

Is this a new book? A memoir? With tales of horror between recipes?

[Shomeret]

I'm taking a second trip to Japan, so it doesn't count for this challenge. But I thought I deserved a nice break from the war atrocities in the last three books I read. It's true that The Maidwas nowhere near as horrifying as All Souls' Risingand Anil's Ghost. It was the Hundred Years War lite. On the other hand, I'm just as happy to get away from all that.

Dream of a Spring Nightby I.J. Parker deals with a 14 year old concubine in the Imperial Court in 12th century Japan. So far the most traumatic event has been a cat that needs medical treatment. It has wonderful period detail.

[Sharon]

I've left the west coast of the US and am now headed over to the East coast (I've lived in both and find them so different that I'm treating them as different countries for this challenge - is that cheating?). Tonight I start The Compleat Moonshadow

[Vicky]

I'm reading [Book:Tell it to My Horse|6203168] by Zora Neale Hurston, and on an ethnographical field trip through 1930s Jamaica and Haiti to understand more about vodou beliefs and rituals.

[Meredith]

I'm in Slovenia right now with Alamutby Vladimir Bartol.

[Cjandres]

I'm in Cambodia reading "The Stone Goddess" by Minfong Ho. I'm a book behind already. This looks like a good and quick read. Hopefully I'll get back on track in my travels.

[Anne]

Judy wrote: "Anne wrote: "Judy wrote:Judy, I couldn't open the link.

I just made it up. I thought it was funny that Gaeta needed her Zoloft so badly. I had to do something to help. :-)"

Haha. Gaeta has her Zoloft by now.

[Mikki]

I'm flying back and forth between Iran, California and Paris trying to perfect the recipe for Maman's Homesick Pie. It's taking me a while because I'm culinary challenged...

[Mikki]

I'll be flying back in to JFK tonight, dropping off my dry cleaning and then in a day or so, flying back out.

[Stephanie]

I have been to Afghanistan right along with Mona at the time of the Soviet Invasion with Earth and Ashes

She took off to Kashmir and I went to the Netherlands and stayed with the Ten Boom family at The Hiding Place.

I am now standing at the ticket counter in the airport debating whether I should head next to Israel or go all the way to Mexico. !

I will let you know where I land! :)

Happy reading everyone!

[Stephanie]

Mikki wrote: "I'll be flying back in to JFK tonight, dropping off my dry cleaning and then in a day or so, flying back out."

LOL. R u going to make any pit stops in the USA?

[Marissa]

I'm realising a long-held ambition to be in more than one place at once!
I'm in England ( The Northern Clemency ), Antarctica ( The Worst Journey in the World ), Ireland ( An Evening of Long Goodbyes ) and Romania ( The Last Hundred Days ).

[Mikki]

Stephanie wrote: "Mikki wrote: "I'll be flying back in to JFK tonight, dropping off my dry cleaning and then in a day or so, flying back out."

LOL. R u going to make any pit stops in the USA?"

Just did! Leaving for Vietnam in the morning Beyond Illusions : A Novel.

[Vicky]

You know how some books just have a 'voice', and when you read you hear the way that the author would have spoken the words, and not the way that you'd speak the same words? My current book has a voice, [Book:Tell it to my Horse|6203168] by Zora Neale Hurston.

But it isn't quite the right voice. I can imagine what she might have sounded like, making assumptions about what I know of her, but the voice I hear in my head when I read is that of Morgan Freeman.

It's nice to hear, but I'm worried that at some point the voice might stop telling me about vodou and conjure in Haiti, and start talking about the time that Andy Dufresne busted outta Shawshank by crawlin' just shy of half a mile through the sewers.

[Maude]

Very funny, Vicki!!

[Mikki]

Vicky wrote: "You know how some books just have a 'voice', and when you read you hear the way that the author would have spoken the words, and not the way that you'd speak the same words? My current book has a voice...But it isn't quite the right voice"


It all sounded so hopeful in the beginning! Maude's right, though, it is funny.

[Mikki]

Judy wrote: "I hope you have your mosquito net, Mikki. :D"

SHOOT! :(

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Cjandres wrote: "I'm in Cambodia reading "The Stone Goddess" by Minfong Ho. I'm a book behind already. This looks like a good and quick read. Hopefully I'll get back on track in my travels."
Looks interesting. I confess that while I've read a great deal of non-fiction on and from Cambodia, I haven't read much fiction set there.

[Marissa]

Judy wrote: "leser, any jet lag?"

Nope, not too much jumping between time zones, so not much jet lag.

Reading about Antarctica is keeping me nice and cold, since we're having a heat wave here in Cape Town at the moment.

[Julia]

Just coming back from tropic India after reading The Palace of Illusions, a light and entertaining, if not great retelling of the Mahabharata from a female point of view. Now I'll finally jump into Doctor Zhivago - quite a change of climate :-)

[Anne]

Taking a break from my world travels, I'm in the U.S. listening to The Virgin Suicides. Just started in and loving it so far.

[Tasha]

I'm in Ireland with Room and it's ahrd to put the book down. I also started my trip to Russia with Anna Karenina which I also like so far even though I really just started. I haven't really arrived yet. :)

[Tasha]

Anne wrote: "Taking a break from my world travels, I'm in the U.S. listening to The Virgin Suicides. Just started in and loving it so far."

That's one of the rather few books I actually read twice.