Where In The World Are You? January/February 2021?
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1hemlokgang
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.
Example: I am in Glasgow, Scotland becoming familiar with life in the tenements by getting to know Shuggie Bain.
2berthirsch
in Paris, with Celine's masterpiece, Journey To The End of the Night
"gotta have what fun you can between hunger and jail, and take things as they come."
"gotta have what fun you can between hunger and jail, and take things as they come."
4hemlokgang
Heading to Colorado, where, as part of celebrating the new year, I will learn to sing the Plainsong.
5spiralsheep
I'm listening to Talk Stories, some of which are also tall stories, in New York and Antigua.
6AnnieMod
Untangling the 14-years old mystery of Six Four while trying to survive the politics of the Japanese police system.
7spiralsheep
I don't know where I am because The Name of this Book is Secret and so is the location and the identities of all the characters.
8jveezer
Just escaped Chef Swelter's abusive kitchen patois and am exploring Gormenghast at long last...
9hemlokgang
Until further notice I will be visiting Germany with my hands in the till as I rejoice over the arrival of the legendary Tyll.
10spiralsheep
I'm walking across Antarctica through The White Darkness.
11spiralsheep
I'm growing up in Antigua with Annie John.
12cindydavid4
>7 spiralsheep: !!!!!How did I reach my present age without hearing about my book? (heard of Bosch but didn't make any connection to his (her?) work) I have 6 new books now sitting on my tbr stack and I feel I must have this and read it now! (You, you enabler you!)
13AnnieMod
I did a quick trip to Israel of 1949 and the West Bank and Israel of a few years ago to deal with a Minor Detail, stopped by New York and Ireland in the future to check on some Shadows in Death and now trying to get out of Germany at the end of WWII with Silver Wings, Iron Cross after discovering what The Sugar Syndrome is in early 21st century UK.
14kidzdoc
I am a suitor in Kenya who hopes to win the hand of one of The Perfect Nine in marriage, and contribute children to the newly created Gĩkũyũ community.
15spiralsheep
I've been out of this world with the Mooncop and hoping To be Taught if Fortunate.
16AnnieMod
Chasing the killer with The Iron Sickle in and around Seoul, South Korea in the 1970s.
17hemlokgang
I am off to China to visit family known as the Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.
18Tess_W
A road trip to find Zoo Nebraska.
19tina1969
I am in Bath, The Shape of Darkness with a supernatural story around a medium and a shadow artist.
20GerrysBookshelf
Had a nice stay at The Orchid House on the island of Dominica.
21spiralsheep
I'm following The border : a journey around Russia through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northwest Passage. I'm getting tired though.
22hemlokgang
It's a rainbow world and I am using my rainbow lens all over the United States to better understand The Color of Law.
23spiralsheep
I'm in Kuwait writing my Mischief Diary and hiding my face behind an emoji mask.
24Tess_W
I'm in London at the Britannia, an exclusive men's club, trying to figure out A Gentleman's Murder.
25spiralsheep
I'm in a children's home in the UK listening to The Story of Tracy Beaker.
26spiralsheep
I'm landing in Qatar with The Girl Who Fell to Earth.
27Selliers
I'm visiting a cemetery in Illinois, wandering amid old graves, and reading the Spoon River Anthology written on them in epitaphs.
28jveezer
Now that he's being disowned by parts of his old country in this Age of Skin, I'm exploring the Nobel metaphor of The Bridge on the Drina.
29Tess_W
Am in Boston, hoping not to get stuck in the Great Molasses Flood.
30spiralsheep
I'm in Mauritania seeking both The Desert and the Drum.
31hemlokgang
Heading to Detroit in hopes of meeting as many of the Black Bottom Saints as possible.
32hemlokgang
Off to Australia where I hope to find a way to understand The Arsonist: A Mind On Fire.
33spiralsheep
I'm beginning my Travels with Herodotus, setting off from Poland, via Italy, to India, China, along the Nile from Egypt to Sudan to Congo, Iran, Ethiopia, and ancient Greece, amongst other places.
34jveezer
At long last, I've made it to Tahiti to enjoy some Tahitian writing with my Breadfruit.
36spiralsheep
>35 markon: I'm also in Uganda, but I'm watching Tropical Fish.
37hemlokgang
I am exploring the Northern California coastal area with My Absolute Darling.
39berthirsch
In Buenos Aires in Hades Argentina a new novel by Daniel Loedel. Revisits the aftermath of the 1970s military dictatorship.
40hemlokgang
Off to Iceland, with a plan to figure out the secret within the CoDex 1962.
41jveezer
The Breadfruit was good, so I thought I'd stay on the Island of Shattered Dreams for a while longer.
42spiralsheep
I've been in medieval alt-Sri Lanka with The Girl who Stole an Elephant.
43spiralsheep
I'm working in the Department of Mind-Blowing Theories.
44jveezer
Don't touch me, I'm in the Philippines reading Noli Me Tangere.
45hemlokgang
In Houston, Texas, attending a solemn Memorial.
46spiralsheep
I'm in Grenada where I'm downstairs and The Ladies are Upstairs.
47spiralsheep
I'm now in Tahiti enjoying the sight and scent of Tiare in Bloom.
48AnnieMod
In the South African Republic and Colonial South Africa surviving the Ango-Zulu war in Natal, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the founding of Johannesburg and still going North for more adventures with When the Lion Feeds.
49berthirsch
In Madrid Leaving the Atocha Station
50AnnieMod
I am back in Paris with The French Widow.
51spiralsheep
I'm singing a Time Song as I search for Doggerland on the edges of the land, submerged under the sea, and fished for in people's memories and anecdotes.
52spiralsheep
I'm avoiding Ways of Dying in an unnamed city, possibly Cape Town in South Africa or several cities in Southern Africa simultaneously.
54spiralsheep
It's 1881 and I'm travelling by mule via A Lady's Ride across Spanish Honduras to seek my fortune as a school teacher serving colonists in their new banana plantations.
55hemlokgang
I am loving some strolls along the English coast, hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the legendary Remarkable Creatures.
56jveezer
Continuing my tour of the Pacific Islands, I'm laying under the Leaves of the Banyan Tree contemplating the price of colonialism and imperialism.
57spiralsheep
I'm being fabulous in Central America with The Black Sheep and other fables.
58spiralsheep
I'm in Sydney, Australia, dealing with customers of the Ladies Frocks Department in Goode's Department Store with The Women in Black.
59spiralsheep
I'm perusing a Family Album full of images of three Catholic girlhoods from Nicaragua, and Mallorca, and from inside a convent in the US.
60hemlokgang
Heading to Chile in a somber mood, where I will be visiting Cowboy Graves.
61hemlokgang
From New York to Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan, I Am Pilgrim trying to solve a horrible crime!
62berthirsch
on a rooftop in Mexico City reading the spirit of science fiction
63spiralsheep
I'm in London before, during, and after the disastrous Grenfell Tower fire, listening to voices from A Portable Paradise.
65spiralsheep
I'm still in London but now back in the Incomparable World of Black British Georgians.
66CarolKub
Just finished Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov so I have been immersed in Ukraine. A fantastic read.