Where In The World Are You? November/ December 2020

Have some fun writing a creative sentence, working in the title and geographic setting of your current read.

Example: I am in Glasgow, Scotland becoming familiar with life in the tenements by getting to know Shuggie Bain.

I was enthralled by a Sultana's Dream in Bangladesh and Ladyland.

I'm now on a road trip from Tunisia via Libya and Egypt to Lebanon with the enchanting Women Who Blow on Knots, Queen Dido of Carthage, a man called Muhammed, and the Goddess Tanit, because we want to know, "What use is a revolution if you can't dance to it?"

Back to my childhood and off to Barsoom to meet A Princess of Mars

I was just at the theatre in Moscow when 50 armed Chechens stormed the place and are holding about 1000 of us hostage...so far, it's been 57 Hours and I think something is going to happen very soon.

I'm travelling on the Transsibérien with Dominique Fernandez and all the authors he's read who wrote about the places along the way.

In Harrow on the Hill, UK, I'm pursuing The White Devil in a boys' school.

I am in California immersing my self in the unique ambience of Berkeley Noir.

I'm back in Norway and Sweden, where My Struggle is almost over as I am on the sixth and last book.

I'm travelling on coach tours to England, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland, Italy, and Scotland, with older people on The Gran Tour.

I'm going to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, on what you might term a tour of Sovietistan.

I have returned to Cornwall to check out The Stranger from the Sea.

I’m in Texas immersed in the wild barbaric times of The Bible Jesus Read.

Back in the USA, hoping for some enlightenment about our culture and the role of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

I'm learning How to be a Kosovan Bride.

I'm at Longbourn in England with Mary, The Other Bennet Sister.

I'm with hard-working farm girl Lily in Texas, late 1800s, as she becomes captivated with bad boy Marion Beatty.

I am in NYC just after an unexpected , in a housing project, while discovering the pleasure of imbibing Deacon King Kong.

I have just emerged somewhat distressed from the 1960s and the terrible dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in The Feast of the Goat

I've been Marrying Off Mother in Corfu, with a side visit to Monaco where I admired Miss Booth-Wycherlys Clothes.

I'm in Glasgow with Shuggie Bain and his alcoholic mother, who is struggling to make ends meet and care for her children.

I'm coming round the mountain in Liechtenstein with a herd of dairy cows and the saintly Ludmila.

Sometimes I am surprised at the number of Anxious People I have met while in Sweden.

I'm staying at the parish near Cornwall and learning about the Brontes and Their World.

I joined a dead man lying Under the Frangipani in Moçambique.

I'm in Accra, Ghana, watching the Changes when a woman falls out of marriage and into love.

Just finished familiarizing myself with the seething undercurrents of Berkeley Noir in California.

Off to 1960s Soho in England to revel in some psychedelic '60s rock on Utopia Avenue.

I am reflecting on India with Shashi Tharoor as a guide in his The elephant, the tiger, and the cell phone.

I'm in Harare in Zimbabwe listening to Shebeen Tales.

Just spent 33 Days evacuating Paris together with Léon Werth.

I'm in the United Arab Emirates watching The Diesel perform.

I'm taking a Journey to Hebron to attend the funeral of Jacob.

Off to Iceland, where I pray the Lord My Soul To Take.

I'm in Oman watching Celestial Bodies move around each other in complex geometries.

I'm moving around Russia, Germany and Italy, thanks to my Safe Conduct.

I've returned from Kenya and One Day I Will Write About This Place.

I'm in the U.S. southwest learning from The Woman Who Owned the Shadows what it is to be an indigenous woman struggling against being melted into the pot.

I am in the thick of things, within inches of the melted core at Midnight in Chernobyl. (I won't be here long, both literally and figuratively!)

I am walking from Ecuador to the United States where I will be one of The Undocumented Americans.

I am in Rome, watching Caligula's descent into madness.

I'm on a mini world tour to visit diverse Fashion Tribes.

I am off to New Jersey where I will attend a Top Secret Twenty-One birthday party.

I'm travelling throughout history and all across the world via Mirrors: stories of almost everyone.

I'm visiting relatives at Mansfield Park near Northampton in England.

Since My Body is a Book of Rules, I'm really not sure where I am.

I am moving between Tennessee and Alabama as part of Late Migrations.

Life in a Medieval Village is brutally difficult.

I am heading to the southern United States and I am very tired. I think I will take a nap on a Pew.

I am by the Thames in 1940 observing the antics of Lucifer and the Child.

Heading off to the Pine Ridge Reservation to learn from the Wild Indians And Other Creatures

Hi from my little den in woods, in the Czech Republic, where I'm about to learn How to Pronounce Knife ...

I was shocked to see Flowers Of Mold everywhere I looked in South Korea!

I am wandering the streets of Toronto looking for Station Eleven.

If you need me, you can find me cruising Memorial Drive in Mississippi or Georgia.

I've flown to Mauritius in search of Genie and Paul.

You can find me Hiding in Plain Sight in Somalia and Kenya.

I've been dancing while listening to Millo Castro Zaldarriaga the Drum Dream Girl and her sisters playing in their band Anacaona.

I'm in Idaho getting Educated.

I am in Mexico, fleeing a drug kingpin, and hoping to plant my feet firmly on American Dirt.

Next month's thread:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/327680

On to Los Angeles where the strangest thing happened. My raincoat was less stylish than The Monkey's Raincoat!