Where In The World Are You? May/June 2020

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Where In The World Are You? May/June 2020

1hemlokgang
Mag 2, 2020, 3:40 pm

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

Example: It was a bit shocking when a friend said to me, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, so I am off to Los Angeles to do just that!

2jveezer
Mag 2, 2020, 11:17 pm

I'm a fly on the wall in a barn loft listening to Women Talking about their oppression and abuse in the Mennonite Manitoba Colony in Bolivia.

3Selliers
Mag 3, 2020, 12:32 pm

I'm all over the world following The Night Circus.

4hemlokgang
Mag 4, 2020, 9:27 am

It is The End of October, and I am sitting in an international conference on pandemics. (Timely)

5nrmay
Mag 4, 2020, 1:59 pm

Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away by L.A. Meyer

I'm with Jacky on the road to Madrid. We've been spying on the French for British Intelligence in the Peninsula War.

6hemlokgang
Modificato: Mag 9, 2020, 6:18 pm

Off to Paris where I nervously anticipate meeting The Perfect Nanny.

7nrmay
Mag 15, 2020, 12:48 pm

In Dublin seeking answers
about the body in the Wych Elm
by Tana French.

8hemlokgang
Modificato: Mag 21, 2020, 4:49 pm

I am splitting between two time periods in England and hoping my meeting with Frankissstein goes well.

9mnleona
Modificato: Mag 22, 2020, 6:01 pm

A visit to the Pyramids in Egypt and a side track to other historical places with Last Secret Chamber by Phil Philips.
and A Tale of Two Cities in London and Paris that is taking me back in time and history.
I finished Last Secret Chamber a few minutes ago.

10hemlokgang
Mag 22, 2020, 4:08 pm

>mnleona Try fitting those titles into creative sentences without naming authors. Check out some of the examples above.

11mnleona
Modificato: Mag 22, 2020, 5:59 pm

>10 hemlokgang: OK.
I went back to edit.
Leona

12jveezer
Mag 23, 2020, 12:32 am

Back in China for the Climax of the Chin P'ing Mei, stocking up on colorful ways to talk about sex.

13hemlokgang
Modificato: Mag 24, 2020, 2:39 am

Strolling through a city in Denmark looking forward to purchasing a warm snack from The Chestnut Man.

14nrmay
Mag 24, 2020, 11:50 pm

In Yorkshire, England with Inspector Linley seeking a great delivery.

15Selliers
Mag 25, 2020, 2:39 am

Mostly in Portland, Oregon, finding out why Ursula K. LeGuin had No Time to Spare.

16kidzdoc
Mag 25, 2020, 5:04 pm

I'm currently accompanying José Saramago on a very unconventional Journey to Portugal.

17nrmay
Mag 27, 2020, 1:19 pm

In the Italian Alps waiting to meet the shoemaker's wife.

18Selliers
Mag 27, 2020, 2:06 pm

With a gun in my handbag, I'm living Up at the Villa in Florence, Italy.

19overlycriticalelisa
Mag 27, 2020, 2:09 pm

just landing in the uk, but as i've only just started, i'm not sure why i'm there yet...

20hemlokgang
Mag 27, 2020, 8:27 pm

Learning about love, life and death in a two era tale of Frankissstein.

21hemlokgang
Modificato: Mag 29, 2020, 10:40 am

Now on to India and hope for Amnesty for all misdeeds!

22hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 2, 2020, 2:56 pm

So excited about traveling to Sierra Leone to attend the long awaited, much anticipated reunion of the Little Family.

23hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 4, 2020, 2:34 am

Hiking in the Tyrols of Austria while learning about The Jump Artist.

24hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 7, 2020, 8:37 pm

Off to Mexico in hopes of hearing The Murmur Of Bees and understanding them!

25EMS_24
Modificato: Giu 10, 2020, 7:25 am

Revisiting Vienna comparing this city in The World according to Garp to my last visit there by the view of The Tobacconist; coincidentally my latest read book

26Selliers
Giu 9, 2020, 9:13 pm

Back in London again, I'm lurking around an apartment building, avid to see how Miss Silver Deals with Death.

27jveezer
Giu 10, 2020, 1:21 pm

In Blackstable (Whitstable), Kent, learning the many forms Of Human Bondage

28hemlokgang
Giu 10, 2020, 7:05 pm

Off to Pennsylvania, in hopes of unraveling the mysteries of Catherine House.

29hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 11, 2020, 12:59 am

I believe Our Lady of The Nile can be found in Rwanda.

30hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 14, 2020, 9:32 pm

I decided to take a unique tour, in Tokyo, of The Territory Of Light.

31overlycriticalelisa
Giu 14, 2020, 11:26 pm

leaving brighton for a funeral, after the death of mrs westaway

32hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 19, 2020, 3:31 pm

Heading to Ethiopia and a journey to meet The Shadow King.

33AnnieMod
Giu 19, 2020, 3:44 pm

After spending some time in the mid and late 1930s (and a bit in the mid 70s) in Ethiopia with Maaza Mengiste's The Shadow King, I am off to the prairies of Canada in the late 1920 and 1930s to sit for a bit Alone in the Classroom and catch my breath.

34jveezer
Giu 19, 2020, 4:30 pm

Just left a place that might be a future Nigeria to travel the stars with Binti.

35mnleona
Modificato: Giu 19, 2020, 5:32 pm

I am in Lake Eden Minnesota trying to find what made Lonnie so dizzy in Coconut Cake Murder

36kidzdoc
Giu 20, 2020, 9:58 am

I've observed The First Wife's reclamation of her husband from his former lovers in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, and I'm now on the campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, studying alongside the Invisible Man.

37hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 27, 2020, 9:44 pm

I took a blow to my solar Plexus in New York City, So will head to London for a rest and a visit to my friends, Ellie and The Harpmaker.

38jveezer
Giu 27, 2020, 11:58 pm

I'm in the small Caspian seaside town of Chamkhaleh, living inside the narrators adolescent brain as he turns My Part of Her into revolutionary tradgedy.

39Selliers
Giu 28, 2020, 6:24 pm

The Bonjour Effect did nothing for me in France, so I'm going back to England to search for The Key.

40overlycriticalelisa
Giu 29, 2020, 1:09 pm

i'm in deep space after earth has been demolished, and with the help of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy maybe i'll learn best practices to be picked up by a passing space ship.

41hemlokgang
Modificato: Giu 30, 2020, 3:56 pm

Visiting the USA to spend time with a relative who tells great family stories, and is known to all of us as Memory Man.