Where In The World Are You? January/February 2022?

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Where In The World Are You? January/February 2022?

1hemlokgang
Bewerkt: dec 31, 2021, 11:33 am

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.

2labfs39
dec 31, 2021, 12:18 pm

I am shoveling furiously, trying not to get buried by Snow.

3jveezer
dec 31, 2021, 12:29 pm

I need a comfort read after this year, so I'm headed to A Place in Time.

4Julie_in_the_Library
dec 31, 2021, 1:08 pm

I'm in England watching a gang of pensioners solve the murder of The Man Who Died Twice.

5Trifolia
dec 31, 2021, 2:31 pm

I'm patiently guarding the border of The Tartar Steppe with Dino Buzzati in Italy.

6hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 2, 2022, 8:50 am

Feeling trepidation heading to Iceland as I know I must face The Reckoning.

7wandering_star
jan 2, 2022, 11:08 am

I am increasingly fascinated by The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, mainly in the American South.

8kaida46
jan 2, 2022, 5:12 pm

In Russia with The Bear and the Nightingale, and in Antarctica with The White Darkness

9mnleona
jan 2, 2022, 8:02 pm

I am in Egypt with Red Land, Black Land, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz and looking forward to seeing the pyramids when I viist Egypt in 2022.

10Selliers
jan 3, 2022, 3:39 pm

I'm on a walking tour in Japan, lusting after The Izu Dancer.

11labfs39
jan 3, 2022, 8:45 pm

Do I dare to disappoint? Ok, I'll admit it, I'm growing up in Turkey.

12Tess_W
jan 8, 2022, 12:34 pm

I'm trying to scrounge up some food as all the potatoes are rotted in The Hungry Road

13hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 8, 2022, 8:16 pm

I am at Andrews Air Force base trying to come to terms with The Anomaly, which is incredibly baffling!

14Selliers
Bewerkt: jan 8, 2022, 6:45 pm

I'm A Clergyman's Daughter in England, living a life of back-breaking work and food uncertainty whether I'm under the paternal roof or not.

15MissWatson
jan 9, 2022, 9:00 am

I am making ready for a voyage across a Sea of Poppies.

16mnleona
jan 9, 2022, 5:14 pm

Taking a Nile cruise with Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

17nancyewhite
jan 9, 2022, 6:31 pm

I've just arrived on the scene of an unexplained death in unseasonably warm North Devon in The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves

18kaida46
jan 9, 2022, 7:45 pm

I visited the Antarctic twice in January and the frozen forests of Russia in the middle ages. Today I started on a journey to China, with a look into the lives of the Akha people with The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See.

19hemlokgang
jan 10, 2022, 4:24 pm

No need to enter author's name on this thread.

20hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 10, 2022, 10:22 pm

While I travel between New York and China I enjoy listening to A Song Everlasting.

21JamesBeach
jan 10, 2022, 10:39 pm

I'm only on page 42, so feel I've a long voyage ahead to reach The Madhouse at the End of the Earth.

22hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 11, 2022, 2:44 pm

You can find me in Edinburgh, while I try to understand what the heck a Strip Jack is!

23labfs39
jan 12, 2022, 11:37 am

I have lived a thousand years or so it felt this morning when my alarm went off.

24wandering_star
jan 12, 2022, 12:05 pm

25GerrysBookshelf
jan 12, 2022, 2:10 pm

Probably not a great idea during a pandemic, but I鈥檓 going Around the World in Eighty Days.

26AnnieMod
jan 12, 2022, 2:14 pm

After shuffling between Malaya, UK and Australia to see the building of A Town Like Alice and stopping by Iceland to make sure I am not Silenced, I am going back to spend some time On the Beach in Australia.

>19 hemlokgang: If someone wants to, why not?

27hemlokgang
jan 12, 2022, 10:37 pm

>26 AnnieMod: not necessary, certainly not forbidden! 馃檪

28hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 13, 2022, 8:25 pm

Fleeing from Spain to Brazil after performing an Act of The Damned.

29labfs39
jan 14, 2022, 10:06 am

Currently enjoying my time with The Bastard of Istanbul.

30hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 18, 2022, 12:12 am

Off to a fictional village Africa, where I will spend time reminiscing about How Beautiful We Were.

31AztecCelt
jan 18, 2022, 12:50 am

Kicking off our Rollin' with the Holies!! world tour and sound checking The Harp of Prophecy for any messy heresy chords. If the fans scream: your lyrics are FIRE, no encores, no meet and greet, we just high-tail it out of there.

32hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 20, 2022, 7:17 pm

Secluded in a French psychiatric hospital, crossing my fingers while watching Narcisse On A Tightrope.

33jveezer
jan 20, 2022, 7:26 pm

Being pulled towards Tucson with everybody else as I study The Almanac of the Dead.

34hemlokgang
jan 21, 2022, 5:10 pm

Sitting in a cozy fireside chair in England, nosing through The Diary of Samuel Pepys.

35amyshaff
jan 22, 2022, 12:20 am

I am with Greek warriors outside the Ancient city of Troy in The women of Troy

36labfs39
jan 22, 2022, 11:11 am

Freezing my tush off in real life, thanks to Artic air from Canada, while laughing at the Killer in King's Cove.

37hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 22, 2022, 12:22 pm

Now off to Iceland for a pointless search for Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.

38hemlokgang
Bewerkt: jan 27, 2022, 10:40 am

Heading to Toronto and a very intimidating Fight Night.

39labfs39
jan 29, 2022, 2:29 pm

I'm trying to avoid man-eating tigers and stay afloat as The Hungry Tide sweeps over the Sundarbans off the coast of India.

40hemlokgang
Bewerkt: feb 4, 2022, 12:07 am

I will be splitting time between New York City and Southern Italy, living with Strangers I Know.

41labfs39
feb 5, 2022, 10:44 am

I've left the Maus in Poland and am now fearing I Will Never See the World Again and regretting The Things I Didn't Tell My Father.

42labfs39
feb 7, 2022, 10:00 am

Left Turkey and headed to Jerusalem to hear a Tale of Love and Darkness.

43mnleona
feb 7, 2022, 10:40 am

In London with Mrs. Dalloway.

44swiftlina
Bewerkt: feb 11, 2022, 6:14 am

As from this morning I am out of this world, resting along the seaside on a Dune.

45Selliers
feb 11, 2022, 9:14 pm

I just returned from the Middle East where I had an Appointment with Death.

46kidzdoc
feb 15, 2022, 7:47 am

I'm in Paris in 1942 during the German Occupation searching for Dora Bruder, a 15 year old unregistered Jewish girl who has escaped from her convent and is now missing.

47labfs39
feb 15, 2022, 8:32 am

>46 kidzdoc: I'll look forward to your comments on Dora Bruder. I read it last spring.

48hemlokgang
Bewerkt: feb 15, 2022, 10:08 pm

Off on a journey starting in Poland then on to the Hapsburg and the Ottoman Empires, all part of reading The Books Of Jacob, while simultaneously solving a murder in Iceland where someone will be seeking The Absolution.

49jveezer
feb 15, 2022, 11:31 pm

Even while striving against the systemic racism in the small U.S. town of Stanton Kansas and the south side of Chicago, life is Not Without Laughter.

50hemlokgang
Bewerkt: feb 18, 2022, 3:27 pm

Heading to New York City and it's subway system where I will familiarize myself with This Side Of Brightness.

51kidzdoc
feb 18, 2022, 3:59 pm

>47 labfs39: Dora Bruder, which was published as The Search Warrant in the UK, where I purchased it in 2016, was easily the best novel I've read by Patrick Modiano. I'll write a review of it this weekend.

I'm in Money, Mississippi, the small town where Emmett Till was lynched after he was falsely accused of flirting with a White woman in 1955, on the trail of a series of murders amongst The Trees.

52mnleona
Bewerkt: feb 21, 2022, 8:50 am

In Arizona with The Sackett Brand.

53hemlokgang
feb 21, 2022, 6:46 pm

Taking a quick detour to stop off in Maine in support of my Blood Mother as we reminisce and flip Through The Pages of our lives.

54jveezer
feb 21, 2022, 8:14 pm

In a future(?) Texas with ghosts and Elatsoe.

55labfs39
feb 22, 2022, 9:19 pm

I made a quick stop off at The School for Good Mothers in Pennsylvania, wandered through Palestine with Joe Sacco, and am heading back to Israel for more Love and Darkness.

56CurrerBell
Bewerkt: feb 25, 2022, 10:27 pm

I just finished traveling through the Indian Ocean and South China Sea, particularly visiting Hong Kong and Canton in Flood of Fire (Amitav Ghosh) for the First Opium War.

57hemlokgang
Bewerkt: feb 26, 2022, 10:21 am

Off to London to mingle with spouses of politicians, particularly Lady Clementine.

58kaida46
feb 26, 2022, 7:01 pm

Jumping around Europe mostly, but landed in Boston and Australia with this one too. People of the Book

59hemlokgang
Bewerkt: feb 28, 2022, 9:55 am

Heading to the Greek Islands to help solve the Moonflower Murders.