Where In The World Are You? January/February 2021?

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Where In The World Are You? January/February 2021?

1hemlokgang
Bewerkt: dec 26, 2020, 2:40 pm

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.

2berthirsch
Bewerkt: dec 27, 2020, 12:42 pm

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."

3Tess_W
dec 28, 2020, 12:48 pm

Spending time with Hamnet Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon.

4hemlokgang
Bewerkt: dec 30, 2020, 3:16 am

Heading to Colorado, where, as part of celebrating the new year, I will learn to sing the Plainsong.

5spiralsheep
dec 30, 2020, 4:27 am

I'm listening to Talk Stories, some of which are also tall stories, in New York and Antigua.

6AnnieMod
jan 1, 2021, 7:31 pm

Untangling the 14-years old mystery of Six Four while trying to survive the politics of the Japanese police system.

7spiralsheep
jan 2, 2021, 4:35 am

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
jan 2, 2021, 12:34 pm

Just escaped Chef Swelter's abusive kitchen patois and am exploring Gormenghast at long last...

9hemlokgang
jan 2, 2021, 1:44 pm

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
Bewerkt: jan 4, 2021, 8:59 am

I'm walking across Antarctica through The White Darkness.

11spiralsheep
jan 5, 2021, 5:07 am

I'm growing up in Antigua with Annie John.

12cindydavid4
jan 5, 2021, 5:20 am

>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
jan 5, 2021, 2:14 pm

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
jan 5, 2021, 3:14 pm

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
jan 6, 2021, 6:02 am

I've been out of this world with the Mooncop and hoping To be Taught if Fortunate.

16AnnieMod
jan 7, 2021, 9:44 pm

Chasing the killer with The Iron Sickle in and around Seoul, South Korea in the 1970s.

17hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 12, 2021, 11:43 pm

I am off to China to visit family known as the Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.

18Tess_W
Bewerkt: jan 10, 2021, 6:32 am

A road trip to find Zoo Nebraska.

19tina1969
jan 10, 2021, 6:35 am

I am in Bath, The Shape of Darkness with a supernatural story around a medium and a shadow artist.

20GerrysBookshelf
jan 10, 2021, 7:37 am

Had a nice stay at The Orchid House on the island of Dominica.

21spiralsheep
Bewerkt: jan 13, 2021, 5:11 pm

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
jan 14, 2021, 11:21 am

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
jan 16, 2021, 5:19 am

I'm in Kuwait writing my Mischief Diary and hiding my face behind an emoji mask.

24Tess_W
jan 16, 2021, 1:50 pm

I'm in London at the Britannia, an exclusive men's club, trying to figure out A Gentleman's Murder.

25spiralsheep
jan 17, 2021, 5:14 pm

I'm in a children's home in the UK listening to The Story of Tracy Beaker.

26spiralsheep
jan 18, 2021, 3:28 pm

I'm landing in Qatar with The Girl Who Fell to Earth.

27Selliers
Bewerkt: jan 18, 2021, 7:40 pm

I'm visiting a cemetery in Illinois, wandering amid old graves, and reading the Spoon River Anthology written on them in epitaphs.

28jveezer
jan 19, 2021, 1:01 pm

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
jan 20, 2021, 6:34 am

Am in Boston, hoping not to get stuck in the Great Molasses Flood.

30spiralsheep
jan 20, 2021, 11:05 am

I'm in Mauritania seeking both The Desert and the Drum.

31hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 22, 2021, 12:27 am

Heading to Detroit in hopes of meeting as many of the Black Bottom Saints as possible.

32hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 23, 2021, 12:41 am

Off to Australia where I hope to find a way to understand The Arsonist: A Mind On Fire.

33spiralsheep
jan 23, 2021, 7:26 am

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
jan 25, 2021, 7:30 pm

At long last, I've made it to Tahiti to enjoy some Tahitian writing with my Breadfruit.

35markon
jan 26, 2021, 5:54 pm

I'm in Uganda, wondering if Kintu's family will ever break the curse!

36spiralsheep
jan 26, 2021, 6:13 pm

>35 markon: I'm also in Uganda, but I'm watching Tropical Fish.

37hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 27, 2021, 2:30 pm

I am exploring the Northern California coastal area with My Absolute Darling.

38AnnieMod
jan 27, 2021, 5:04 pm

Trying not to freeze with Sólveig Pálsdóttir's The Fox in Höfn, Iceland.

39berthirsch
jan 29, 2021, 6:30 pm

In Buenos Aires in Hades Argentina a new novel by Daniel Loedel. Revisits the aftermath of the 1970s military dictatorship.

40hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 29, 2021, 8:34 pm

Off to Iceland, with a plan to figure out the secret within the CoDex 1962.

41jveezer
jan 30, 2021, 12:55 am

The Breadfruit was good, so I thought I'd stay on the Island of Shattered Dreams for a while longer.

42spiralsheep
jan 30, 2021, 7:19 am

I've been in medieval alt-Sri Lanka with The Girl who Stole an Elephant.

43spiralsheep
jan 31, 2021, 2:52 pm

44jveezer
jan 31, 2021, 7:00 pm

Don't touch me, I'm in the Philippines reading Noli Me Tangere.

45hemlokgang
Bewerkt: feb 1, 2021, 12:55 am

In Houston, Texas, attending a solemn Memorial.

46spiralsheep
Bewerkt: feb 8, 2021, 2:33 pm

I'm in Grenada where I'm downstairs and The Ladies are Upstairs.

47spiralsheep
feb 6, 2021, 11:55 am

I'm now in Tahiti enjoying the sight and scent of Tiare in Bloom.

48AnnieMod
feb 8, 2021, 11:45 pm

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
feb 11, 2021, 6:00 pm

50AnnieMod
feb 11, 2021, 6:02 pm

I am back in Paris with The French Widow.

51spiralsheep
feb 12, 2021, 5:18 am

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
Bewerkt: feb 16, 2021, 8:46 am

I'm avoiding Ways of Dying in an unnamed city, possibly Cape Town in South Africa or several cities in Southern Africa simultaneously.

53Selliers
Bewerkt: feb 15, 2021, 2:00 am

I'm in southern California, wondering how many names begin with an X.

54spiralsheep
feb 19, 2021, 5:05 pm

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
feb 19, 2021, 6:02 pm

I am loving some strolls along the English coast, hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the legendary Remarkable Creatures.

56jveezer
feb 19, 2021, 7:15 pm

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
feb 20, 2021, 5:24 am

I'm being fabulous in Central America with The Black Sheep and other fables.

58spiralsheep
feb 20, 2021, 2:49 pm

I'm in Sydney, Australia, dealing with customers of the Ladies Frocks Department in Goode's Department Store with The Women in Black.

59spiralsheep
Bewerkt: feb 24, 2021, 6:08 am

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
Bewerkt: feb 23, 2021, 3:04 pm

Heading to Chile in a somber mood, where I will be visiting Cowboy Graves.

61hemlokgang
Bewerkt: feb 26, 2021, 2:27 am

From New York to Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan, I Am Pilgrim trying to solve a horrible crime!

62berthirsch
feb 26, 2021, 11:57 am

on a rooftop in Mexico City reading the spirit of science fiction

63spiralsheep
feb 26, 2021, 1:38 pm

I'm in London before, during, and after the disastrous Grenfell Tower fire, listening to voices from A Portable Paradise.

64jveezer
feb 26, 2021, 4:05 pm

I'm on Box Butte with Waterlily leaving some prayers and offerings to the Great Spirit.

65spiralsheep
Bewerkt: feb 27, 2021, 3:13 am

I'm still in London but now back in the Incomparable World of Black British Georgians.

66CarolKub
feb 27, 2021, 10:54 am

Just finished Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov so I have been immersed in Ukraine. A fantastic read.