Where In The World Are You? November/December 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'm in Cuidad Juarez/Santa Teresa hoping that 2666 is NOT the number of women raped and murdered in that city.

I'm in a burnt out bus in war torn Mozambique alongside Muidinga and Tuahir, in a Sleepwalking Land filled with corpses and ghosts.

Just returned to Minnesota from Chicago, and now I must bear The Burden of Truth.

Just returned to Minnesota from Chicago, and now I must bear the Burden of Truth.

Sorry, can't get to earth any longer, it has been destroyed long before The Restaurant at the End of the Universe existed

I'm in early 20th century German East Africa, listening to the Afterlives of several people who lived through those brutal and traumatic times.

I’m with an Italian journalist in Thailand doing what A Fortune Teller Told Me.

Struggling in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, horrified at all the Things We Lost to The Water.

Heading to NYC where I plan on learning the steps to the Harlem Shuffle.

The Noodle Maker is showing me corruption in modern day China

I am in Minnesota, home to the Ojibwa people, learning that there are many ways to be imprisoned, primarily determined by The Sentence.

I just finished a trip to Turkey with Elif Shafak's 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World and have traveled to Italy with the prizewinning novel Il desiderio di essere come tutti (The desire to be like everyone else) by Francesco Piccolo.

I'm in Germany learned why a Burned Child Seeks the Fire.

I'm in Tangiers with a mysterious woman discovering the joys of The Almond.

The Strays of Paris are showing me a different side to this beautiful city.

Starting a trip to Mexico to listen to the Murmur of bees by Sofia Segovia

A missing child in London has drawn me into a mystery. I hope when resolved to feel a sense of Happiness.

AhEm. My next book will be about the evacuation of children during the fall of Saigon.

>19 labfs39: Good one.

When Stars are Scattered, I can read with nature's flashlight.

I'm in Uganda with The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.

I'm hiding out from The Memory Police.

Heading into the Scrublands of Australia for mystery and adventure!

Well, I wish I was sitting on the Chesapeake Bay as I Consider the Oyster.

I spent the last 3 weeks in Cairo, Egypt on Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street during the struggle for independene.

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

I'm in Newfoundland, Canada marching through the Memoirs of a Blue Puttee.

I am going to try to build a new life in Canada after the old life let me down.

>28 hemlokgang: lol. Good luck with that!

I'm hanging out with Jamilia in Kyrgyzstan.

I'll be in Baltimore frantically looking for Lady In The Lake.

Back to Paris where I will further indulge in the Remembrance Of Things Past, Vol Two.

I've FINALLY found a way to be in Uzbekistan as I study The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, or the Kitāb Bātanjali al-Hindī in Beruniy.

Headed to South Africa where I hope to fulfill The Promise which I made.

Finished my first audiobook Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (non fiction Albania) and moved to Poland to Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.

I'm joining hemlokgang in South Africa which may be a Folly.

Now in Natchez, working furiously to thwart efforts to leave more corpses under The Bone Tree.

In Bulgaria, where my activities comprise A Short Tale of Shame.

I'm being carted from Czechoslovakia to Poland to Germany and back again in A Delayed Life.

I am somewhere in Northern Ireland feeling torn about my new relationship with the Milkman.

I am also with the Milkman but I'm walking through the Blood Bank neighborhood of a Michigan town humming the Song of Solomon.

Finding my way through the underside of San Francisco using The Book Of Form And Emptiness as my guide.

On a bus in rural Turkey staring out at the Snow. Also sitting on my couch staring out at the snow...

>43 labfs39: Lol

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