Where In The World Are You? September/October 2021

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.

I am traveling from New Yok to India desperately trying to find someone to divulge The Storyteller's Secret.

I'm in Vienna with Malina, but really in the Ungargassenland of the narrator's madness; so when it gets too much I slip off to Beleriand and the Silmarillion.

In Portugal, trying to get to Brazil, but I think it will take an Act of The Damned to make it happen!

I'm in a ravaged England, trying to keep The Boy on the Bridge safe, although he can take care of himself quite well.

I’m in Norway navel-gazing with Karl Ove Knausgard in his Autumn.

Now on to Italy to clarify the Whereabouts of all that matters!

I'm in contemporary Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, and I'm preparing to accompany Krishan on A Passage North to learn about the mysterious death of his maternal grandmother's carer.

In a small rural town in Canada with designs on the land of the First Nations Reserve next door. Both communities shares an uncomfortable past with the remains of an old residential school and its children's graveyard.

Sufferance by Thomas King

I am simultaneously wallowing In Remembrance Of Things Past in France and meandering worldwide while In Persuasion Nation.

I am somewhere in the Netherlands with Summer Brother.

Heading down south to Mississippi where some of the residents are living in Mortal Fear.

I'm in Japan, staying in The Graveyard Apartment ... and I can't get out.

I just finished an island-hopping tour of the world oceans - from the island of Mauritius which has no indigenous population but still managed to form a nation by following the Silent Winds, Dry Seas, through meeting the Tasmanian Aboriginal population that was just Born Into This, with a stop to the far north to check the Faroe Islands and finishing the tour back in Mauritius to spend a few more Kaya Days there.

I'm in the ghost town of Comala, México, in a so far futile search for Pedro Páramo.

I am covering the news in war-torn Baghdad with the Correspondents.

I'm in the High Country of France learning about Ennemonde Girard, a morbidly obese and toothless woman who kept sheep, loved her children fiercely, and murdered those who dared to oppose her.

Traveling between Finland of 2016 and Ukraine of a few years earlier (with a stop or in Estonia) while a family walks their dog in a Helsinki Dog Park.

Leaving France where At Night All Blood Is Black and heading back to the Mississippi Delta and the sysops serial killer who has many folks living in Mortal Fear.

With many ups and downs along with waning and waxing enthusiasm, I am spending a long time to take A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.

>19 hemlokgang: Two books I really like. Have fun with Iles.

And to be on topic:

After coming back from Helsinki, I am getting snowed in while ducking a murderer on the shores of the Iron Lake in Minnesota.

Tentatively headed to Washington DC, hoping to avoid existing in a constant State of Terror.

After almost freezing to death at the shores of the Iron Lake in Minnesota, I am staying with the Northern theme and seeking a A Passage North in Sri Lanka.

I'm in a village in Uganda with Rukundakanuzire, in a search for The Greedy Barbarian.

I was introduced to Negley Farson on a Caucasian Journey. What a great companion he was on a journey in the early days of a country that no longer exists. Unfailing good humour despite any discomfort and inconvenience. And generous with his cigarettes too.

I am at Cramer Cove, surreptitiously observing the strange private ceremony performed every Friday afternoon by The Man by the Sea.

Heading to Minnesota where I have a feeling I will be spending my time slogging through The Deep Deep Snow.

Off to Ireland being guided by The Pull Of The Stars.

Setting off for a rollicking cross-country drive in America on The Lincoln Highway.

I'm scared out of my mind (pun intended) and huddled in a corner of a Swedish electroshock therapy clinic with the October Child.

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