Where In The World Are You? Sept/Oct 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.

I'm in Korea and China watching the Grass blow in the wind and pondering the fate of Korean "comfort women" during WWII.

I'm in England, rushing about in trains and automobiles to solve The Ponson Case.

I'm losing respect for Gandhi while in India with The Doctor and the Saint.

Please Look After Mom, she's gone missing in Seoul.

Crying in H mart....

btw to all my fellow global reading travelers, the NYTs book review has a new feature :literary destinations. Last week it was on Lisbon I dont have the paper but I know the maisas by jose maria de eca de queiroz was mentioned

This this week Yasmine El Rashidis a native of Cairo, talks books about cairo for arm chair traveling, The list include some familiar books the map of love in the eye of the sun as well as ones Im not familar with false papers, beer in the snooker club the article itself was really interesting. Just a heads up if you can get ahold of the paper. Definitely going to keep up with this feature (yeah, like I need more books...)

I'm playing The Waiting game on the DMZ in Korea. Will the reunification of families ever happen?

I've joined the Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons as they rampage across the Ukrainian steppe into Poland.

I had no idea where the Andamon Islands were until I stumbled upon The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali.

Thankfully there's a bright moon, because I'm reading By Night in Chile.

I'm in a cafe in Japan where you can time travel, if you sit in a certain seat, but have to be back Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

I've left the Andamon islands for Madagascar, where I'm exploring Beyond the Rice Fields.

I am in Egypt taking a train in Egypt in the Night Train to Memphis.

I’m exploring Africa with the adventurer Mr. Laing in The Race for Timbuktu.

I'm in Poland finding out if it's possible to Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead.

Canción seems like a strange name for a butcher, but during the Guatemalan Civil War, perhaps it was an odd nom de guerre?

I would tell you what I'm reading, but it's a Vietnamese Novel Without a Name.

I am in beautiful Santorini with A Terrible Beauty

I'm in Denmark, Norway and Germany patting Dogheads.

I'm in some sort of nether world with a Sri Lankan man who has just been murdered, in the hope that The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida will provide enough time for him to make the passage to being reborn.

Colors, colors, everywhere. Marveling first at The Blue Sky about the Altai in Mongolia, then traveling From the Land of Green Ghosts in Burma to grey, rainy Cambridge.

Despite my wish to abolish the death penalty in the U.S., and hoping India and all others follow suit, I'm becoming quite enamored of the Hangwoman.

I thought I was in England with Last White Man, but, given all the guns, I'm guessing I'm in the US.

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