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

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

1hemlokgang
Modificato: Dic 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
Modificato: Dic 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
Dic 28, 2020, 12:48 pm

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

4hemlokgang
Modificato: Dic 30, 2020, 3:16 am

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

5spiralsheep
Dic 30, 2020, 4:27 am

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

6AnnieMod
Gen 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
Gen 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
Gen 2, 2021, 12:34 pm

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

9hemlokgang
Gen 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
Modificato: Gen 4, 2021, 8:59 am

I'm walking across Antarctica through The White Darkness.

11spiralsheep
Gen 5, 2021, 5:07 am

I'm growing up in Antigua with Annie John.

12cindydavid4
Gen 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
Gen 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
Gen 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
Gen 6, 2021, 6:02 am

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

16AnnieMod
Gen 7, 2021, 9:44 pm

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

17hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 12, 2021, 11:43 pm

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

18Tess_W
Modificato: Gen 10, 2021, 6:32 am

A road trip to find Zoo Nebraska.

19tina1969
Gen 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
Gen 10, 2021, 7:37 am

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

21spiralsheep
Modificato: Gen 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
Gen 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
Gen 16, 2021, 5:19 am

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

24Tess_W
Gen 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
Gen 17, 2021, 5:14 pm

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

26spiralsheep
Gen 18, 2021, 3:28 pm

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

27Selliers
Modificato: Gen 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
Gen 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
Gen 20, 2021, 6:34 am

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

30spiralsheep
Gen 20, 2021, 11:05 am

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

31hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 22, 2021, 12:27 am

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

32hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 23, 2021, 12:41 am

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

33spiralsheep
Gen 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
Gen 25, 2021, 7:30 pm

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

35markon
Gen 26, 2021, 5:54 pm

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

36spiralsheep
Gen 26, 2021, 6:13 pm

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

37hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 27, 2021, 2:30 pm

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

38AnnieMod
Gen 27, 2021, 5:04 pm

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

39berthirsch
Gen 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
Modificato: Gen 29, 2021, 8:34 pm

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

41jveezer
Gen 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
Gen 30, 2021, 7:19 am

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

43spiralsheep
Gen 31, 2021, 2:52 pm

44jveezer
Gen 31, 2021, 7:00 pm

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

45hemlokgang
Modificato: Feb 1, 2021, 12:55 am

In Houston, Texas, attending a solemn Memorial.

46spiralsheep
Modificato: 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
Modificato: 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
Modificato: 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
Modificato: 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
Modificato: Feb 23, 2021, 3:04 pm

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

61hemlokgang
Modificato: 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
Modificato: 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.