Hemlokgang's Global Literary Journey 2022

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Hemlokgang's Global Literary Journey 2022

1hemlokgang
Dic 26, 2021, 1:34 am

My annual goal is to read books written by authors born in 25 non-United States countries.

2hemlokgang
Modificato: Apr 13, 2022, 11:59 pm

Country list:
Iceland, France, Scotland, Brazil, England, Cameroon, China, Wales, Canada, Italy, Poland, Ireland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Lebanon

3hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 22, 2022, 12:20 pm

4hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 20, 2022, 7:30 pm

5labfs39
Gen 7, 2022, 9:41 am

Will you be posting reviews here, Hemlock?

6hemlokgang
Gen 8, 2022, 1:22 pm

I post reviews on the book page in my library and at #hearditfromferd.

7hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 11, 2022, 2:41 pm

#3 - Scotland

Strip Jack by Ian Rankin

8hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 13, 2022, 8:23 pm

9hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 14, 2022, 11:35 pm

10hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 15, 2022, 1:09 pm

#6 - England

Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

11hemlokgang
Modificato: Gen 18, 2022, 12:08 am

12hemlokgang
Gen 19, 2022, 12:46 am

#8 - China

A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin

13hemlokgang
Gen 24, 2022, 1:22 am

14hemlokgang
Gen 27, 2022, 10:38 am

#10 - Canada

Fight Night by Miriam Toews

15hemlokgang
Modificato: Feb 4, 2022, 12:05 am

16swiftlina
Feb 11, 2022, 6:18 am

How about Turkey? Orhan Pamuk is a brilliant author.

17hemlokgang
Feb 13, 2022, 10:29 am

>16 swiftlina: I have read everything he's written! One of my all time favorite authors!

18hemlokgang
Modificato: Feb 15, 2022, 9:46 pm

19hemlokgang
Modificato: Feb 18, 2022, 3:21 pm

20hemlokgang
Mar 19, 2022, 5:11 pm

#14 - Tanzania
By The Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

21hemlokgang
Mar 30, 2022, 3:33 pm

22hemlokgang
Modificato: Apr 2, 2022, 12:28 am

23hemlokgang
Modificato: Apr 6, 2022, 9:57 pm

#17 - Japan

Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

24hemlokgang
Modificato: Apr 14, 2022, 12:00 am

25labfs39
Apr 16, 2022, 10:59 am

>24 hemlokgang: I recently read and loved An Unnecessary Woman by Alameddine and have been considering this book. In your review you say he disliked the narrator, do you mean the character in the book or the reader of an audio version? If the former, what turned you off?

26labfs39
Modificato: Apr 16, 2022, 10:59 am

Duplicate post. Sorry

27hemlokgang
Apr 17, 2022, 2:00 pm

>25 labfs39:. The reader

28labfs39
Giu 22, 2022, 5:53 pm

Goodbye, Hemlokgang. Peaceful journeys