Where In The World Are You? May/June 2022

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.

Heading to England to get to know Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury.

I'm laying low at Manor Farm, er, I mean Animal Farm, wondering when they are gonna come for me.

I'm visiting Iraq for the first time, but wished I had picked a cheerier travel companion than The Corpse Washer.

And I'm now on a Journey to Munich in 1938, then it's all over the globe chasing Burnt Shadows.

I just spent a year with the Impressionists in France. Sacre Bleu!!! That was a heady time.

Tuscany, 1944. Thank goodness there is Still Life to be found!

Staying in England to spend time with Billie Eilish.

I'm sitting in Afghanistan, listening to a woman pour out her secrets and grievances to The Patience Stone.

I'm staying on in Afghanistan for a little birdwatching; The Swallows of Kabul are nesting.

After checking on a Pyre in rural Tami Nadu in India, I stopped by Tehran to see what I need to do In Case of Emergency while being on my way to visit post-apocalyptic rural Wales as chronicled in The Blue Book of Nebo. Now off to China to check if the Red Sorghum is doing anything else besides growing.

I'm in the 'stans', it's quite interesting.
Sovietistan

Wandering down Rouge Street in Shenyang, where I have actually been once. It seems to have changed.

I’ve been all over the place in I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers . Most recently my travel agent sent me through a war zone in Sudan. Five stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Reading the nightmare of turning Ploughshares into Swords in WWI Ruthenia while it's modern day moniker of Ukraine suffers the scourge of imperial armies yet again.

I'm still in Afghanistan, lost in a Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear.

I’m in Paris with the late war correspondent Marie Colvin in in Extremis: The Life and Death of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by her friend Lindsey Hilsum.

I'm one of those Anxious People who always needs a book with me in case I get in a hostage situation in Sweden.

In the year 1926 in the Essex Countryside with Murder at Wedgefield Manor.

I've been in China for the last 4 weeks or so - checking on the growing Red Sorghum, chasing dreams with Lenin's Kisses, getting my heart broken while Waiting and now visiting Shanghai with The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and the future with Sinopticon.

This is farewell. I am on hospice care for Stage 4 Breast Cancer. It has been a 16 year battle and i am tired of the fight, so I have chosen to stop treatment. I am surrounded by loving family and friends, am no longer reading, so decided to say farewell. I have loved LibraryThing for many years. Home to true bibliophiles! Carry on my friends, as I prepare for the next step in the universal journey! Ferris

>21 hemlokgang: Take good care, my book friend. It's been a joy having you on our forum. We'll miss you. Peace to you on your journey! Glad you have family and friends around you.

>21 hemlokgang: farewell and best wishes as you prepare for your journey!

Peace to you, hemlokgang. Who knows, we might all reconvene in the eternity and talk about books some more.

It's Juneteenth and I'm in Guinea witnessing what can happen when a stereotypical colonist fall under The Radiance of the King.