Constance's List

[Constance]

Afghanistan The Kite Runner
Albania The Palace of Dreams
Die Schlangen des Blutes
Andorra On the Line
Argentina The Library at Night
Armenia Family of Shadows
Australia In a Sunburned Country
Austria Herr Mozart wacht auf
Bangladesh The Silent and the Lost
Bosnia & Herzogovenia People of the Book
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Brazil The Silence of the Rain
Burundi Strength in What Remains
Canada Life of Pi
Chile Mascara – Ariel Dorfman
Colombia 100 Years of Solitude
Czech Republic The Unbearable Lightness
of Being
Denmark Library of Shadows
France Bonjour Tristesse
A Moveable Feast
Paris Was Ours
Gabon Tropic Moon
Germany Fremde Heimat
Haiti Love, Anger, Madness
Hungary The Melancholy of Resistance
India A Passage to India
Italy If on a Winter’s Night
Invisible Cities
The Drowned and the Saved
Ireland Angela’s Ashes
Israel The Dovekeepers
Jamaica Hallucinating Foucault
Jordan Lion of Jordan
Kazakhstan The Power of Blood
Lesotho Singing Away the Hunger
Mexico The Labyrinth of Solitude
Mongolia My Little Round House
All This Belongs to Me
Morocco The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Nepal The Snow Leopard
The Netherlands Outsider in Amsterdam
Nigeria Things Fall Apart
Half of a Yellow Sun
Poland Jüdisches Wirken in Breslau
(Dagmar Nick)
Rhodesia Don’t Let’s Go To the
Dogs Tonight
Russia Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
The Endless Steppe
Travels in Russian History
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who
Read Them – Elif Baruman
Samoa Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Saudi Arabia In the Land of Invisible Women
Senegal The Abandoned Baobab
Seychelles The Edge of Eden
Sierra Leone Blood Diamonds
Slovenia Living in the End Times (Slavoj Zizek)
Immer noch Sturm (Peter Handke) NOTE: he is an Austrian writer born in today's Slovenia. This book is about his family there.
Somalia Gifts – Nuruddin Farah
Switzerland Max Frisch – Homo Faber
Tajikistan Hurramabad
Tibet Entering the Forbidden City
Togo Do They Hear You When They Cry?
Uganda The Last King of Scotland
UK War Brides
Ukraine Everything is Illuminated
USA The Big House
Rules of Civility – Amor Toles
Uruguay Land of Memory
The Ship of Fools
The Invisible Mountain
Vietnam A House on Dream Street
(Dana Sachs)
Wales Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Zimbabwe Rot wie eine BrautThe Kite Runner

[Anne]

Mikki,

did you see what Constance wrote above? I'll copy it here just in case you missed it.


: if anyone wants to a literary version of "15 countries in 10 days" tour, go to dalkeyarchive.com and click on books "by country." There you find works, mostly short stories, by authors from the smaller countries such as Liechtenstein, Estonia, Latvia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Cyprus, and so on.


MOSTLY SHORT STORIES.......

[Betty]

If I could do anything, I would join those who read the books in the Dalkey Archive. There are people who do it. I read the stories from Greece and liked them. I see Japan is also represented with The Shadow of a Blue Cat and others which I'll check. Thank you, Constance, for mentioning the site.

[Betty]

There's also the Special Sales at Dalkey happening. According to World Cat, the library near me owns "The Shadow of a Blue Cat". That's good. I'll have to check about the rest.

Mikki, you're right about the lengths!!

[Constance]

OK. I give up. What is so funny about the lengths? All the stuff I looked at was collections of short stories. Did I miss something?

[Anne]

Constance, I think that is just something between Mikki and Asmah about; I'm guessing it's about the length of the story/stories.

[Betty]

Unless they finished, readers are hurrying to meet the deadline for the site-wide 2011 Goodreads Challenge, i.e., the number of books they said they would read between Jan 1 and December 31. So, length might be a criteria at this point in time to reach the quota.

[Constance]

Well, the point I was making is that many of the authors on the site represent countries that are not on the master list for the country challenge. In any case, it was not necessary to scream! I can "hear" quite well.

[Chrissie]

Constance, I appreciate that you have many books that are different and not simply drawn for other lists. Thanks.

[Betty]

Constance wrote: "Well, the point I was making is that many of the authors on the site represent countries that are not on the master list for the country challenge. In any case..."

The key is that readers have a choice as to the way they assign books and countries. Expand the possibilities by pairing a country with an author, a setting, or a theme.

[Betty]

Chrissie wrote: "Constance, I appreciate that you have many books that are different and not simply drawn for other lists. Thanks."

The Silence of the Rain from Brazil is something I might like to read as I am finishing a year in Brazil and Peru in The World's Literature.
I agree with Chrissie about the list you made and admire the effort you put into making it.

[Constance]

Barry wrote: "Constance wrote: "So, here is my list. "

very cool, Constance!

if these are your final choices and you're not just listing possibilities, can you go ahead and link the titles of the books? it's o..."

[Constance]

Barry: Thank you for letting me know how to link my books. However I still can't figure it all out. I click "edit" -- a pop-up window appears -- I write in the title -- get the list of possible edition of book -- click on one -- get number code. So far, so good. But then I am supposed to cut and paste that code over where the title in the list. I go back to the post with my list, but the program won't let me erase from my list (in my post) in order to copy the code in. What have I done wrong?

[Constance]

I did what you said and it went fine until the part when I cut and paste into my list. Was I supposed to copy the whole list into the pop-up window? The computer won't let me cut or paste into the original list I posed on this discussion.

[Janice]

Follow the bouncing ball....

1. Go to Message #1, and click edit.
2. With your cursor at the bottom of the window, click on "add book/author". Another window will come up.
3. Type in the book title and click add beside the appropriate to select it.
4. You will see the link encased in square brackets back in your editing window.
5. Highlight the link, making sure you have the square brackets in the highlight.
6. Press Control X (it will move it to your clipboard).
7. Scroll up to the book you originally typed.
8. Highlight the Title of the book you want to replace with the link.
9. Press Control V.
10. Rince and repeat until your list is complete.
(I would recommend that you save periodically by clicking on the "Edit Post" icon at the bottom of the window.)

I hope that helps a bit. It can get confusing. It's frustrating that Goodreads drops the link to the bottom of the window and that you have to cut and paste. Many people are asking that Goodreads change it so that the link will appear whereever the cursor rests.

[Betty]

Constance, remember when you are writing the post and adding book/author into the post, what you see will be a bracketed code, something like this [bok:The Palace of Dreams|797635]. Don't worry it is not highlighted while you are still writing the post. When you press to 'post' or 'preview', the bracketed code will automatically appear the way it should, highlighted-- The Palace of Dreams

[Constance]

Afghanistan The Kite Runner
Albania The Palace of Dreams
Argentina The Library at Night
Armenia Family of Shadows
Australia In a Sunburned Country
Austria Herr Mozart wacht auf
Bangladesh The Silent and the Lost
Bosnia & Herzogovenia People of the Book
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Brazil The Silence of the Rain
Burundi Strength in What Remains
Canada Life of Pi
Chile Mascara – Ariel Dorfman
Colombia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Czech Republic The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Denmark The Library of Shadows
France Bonjour Tristesse
A Moveable Feast
Gabon Tropic Moon
Germany Fremde Heimat
Haiti Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy
Hungary The Melancholy of Resistance
India A Passage to India
Italy Invisible Cities
Ireland Angela's Ashes
Israel The Dovekeepers
Jamaica Hallucinating Foucault
Jordan Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace
Kazakhstan The Power of Blood
Lesotho Singing Away the Hunger : The Autobiography of an African Woman
Mexico The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Mongolia My Little Round House
All This Belongs to Me: A Novel
Morocco The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Nepal The Snow Leopard
The Netherlands Outsider in Amsterdam
Nigeria Things Fall Apart
Half of a Yellow Sun
Poland Judisches Wirken in Breslau: Eingeholte Erinnerung : der Alte Asch und die Bauers
Rhodesia Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Russia Dead Souls
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who
Read Them – Elif Baruman
Samoa Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Saudi Arabia In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Senegal The Abandoned Baobab
Seychelles The Edge of Eden
Sierra Leone Blood Diamonds
Slovenia Living in the End Times(Slavoj Zizek)
Immer noch Sturm (Peter Handke) NOTE: he is an Austrian writer born in today's Slovenia. This book is about his family there.
Somalia Gifts – Nuruddin Farah
Switzerland Max Frisch – Homo Faber
Tajikistan Hurramabad
Tibet Entering the Forbidden City
Togo Do They Hear You When You Cry
Uganda The Last King of Scotland
UK War Brides
Ukraine Everything is Illuminated
USA The Big House
Rules of Civility – Amor Toles
Uruguay The Ship of Fools
Vietnam A House on Dream Street
(Dana Sachs)

[Constance]

Sorry I re-posted that. My computer wouldn't let me edit the original list; keeps telling me that I am currently editing it. Apparently clicking "cancel edit" doesn't do anything. So I will try to post off this new list.

[Constance]

You all are fabulous! I think I've got it now. Thank you so much!

[Constance]

Mostly done. Just a couple of questions:

1. Several of the books I listed are not on the GoodReads database. What do I do?

2. After I finished coding all the books, I hit "preview" and it showed up all highlighted like you said. What do I click next? My only other choice was "edit post" and that just returned me to the edit box.

Thanks in advance for everyone's patience!

[Constance]

Apparently that list did post. Beginner's luck clicking on the right thing.

I just need to know how to get the books that weren't in the database linked.

Again: thank you all!

[Constance]

Thank you, Asmah. I'll do that.

[Constance]

You are all terrific. Without you, I'd still be looking at the keyboard and crossing my eyes in confusion!

[Constance]

Whew!!

[Betty]

These are some of the titles you're seeking. If the book you're looking for does not appear on Goodreads, you might doublecheck on Amazon, using their title or ISBN to find the book on Goodreads.

The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

Tropic Moon

The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam

My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

Half of a Yellow Sun

Modern Clan Politics and Beyond: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan

The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

Good Luck!

[Constance]

Thank you for looking those up, Asmah.

[Janice]

I found Goodreads a bit confusing at first. In fact, it was months before I even starting using it. Once you get over the hurdle and figure out the features, it's an awesome site.

[Chel]

Constance wrote: "Apparently that list did post. Beginner's luck clicking on the right thing.

I just need to know how to get the books that weren't in the database linked.

Again: thank you all!"

good job!

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Your selections have been added to the master list.