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Tess' European Vacation via Reading

1Tess_W
Bearbeitet: Jun. 18, 2021, 6:48 pm

Hi all! Want to increase my reading outside of just the UK & France, hence this challenge. I will go back and post to the beginning of 2021. I have added Holland as I read a historical fiction that took place in the then Holland. If a book is evenly divided 50/50 as to location, I will count it in both locations.

2Tess_W
Bearbeitet: Sept. 24, 2021, 11:15 pm

Albania
The Country Where No One Ever Dies
Austria
The Radetsky March
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria
Courage to Care

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic
War with the Newts

Denmark
Courage To Care
Beowulf
The Two Baronesses

Estonia
Faeroe Islands
Finland

France
The Gauguin Connection
The Devil's Brood
Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story
The Nun
Mauprat
A King's Ransom (Normandy,Toulouse, Rouen)
Madame Tussaud (Paris)
Peter Ibbetson (Paris)

Germany
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American
Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839
The Cost of Discipleship

Greece
Orpheus and Eurydice
Philoctetes
Orestia
The Theban Plays

Holland
Tulip Fever

Hungary
Iceland

Ireland
Tread Softly on My Dreams (short stories)
The Shadow of a Century

Italy
Courage to Care
Aida: Giuseppe Verdi (Black Dog Opera Library) by
David Foil (2002-05-30) Verdi's life-Italy, Aida-Egypt
The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History
(Sicily)
The History of Rome: The Republic Volume 1 by Mike
Duncan
I'm Not Scared

Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro

Norway
The Courage to Care

Netherlands
The Courage to Care

Poland
The Courage to Care
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

Portugal
Romania

Russian Federation
Master and Man (Russia)

San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia

Spain
The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery

Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey

Ukraine
Voices from Chernobyl

United Kingdom
Longbourn (England)
Restoration (England)
Life in a Medieval Village
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (London)
Poldark Series, finished books 9-12 in 2021 (Cornwall)
When Google met WikiLeaks (Norfolk)
Living our Best Lives: Cannon Hall Farm (Barnsley)
Cotillion (England)
The A. B. C. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
(England)
Swallows and Amazons (Lake District)
Of Mortal Love (England, 10% France)
The Devil's Brood (England, Aquataine)
A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 (England)
Florence Nightingale (Penguin 60s) by Lytton Strachey
(1996-03-28 (Middlesex)
Hamnet (England)
Jamaica Inn (Cornwall)
The Convenient Marriage (England
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: A Miss Marple
Mystery (England)
A Gentleman's Murder (England)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (England)
Mrs. Dalloway (London)
Imperial Rescript ( 50% in England)
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
The Last Puritan (75% England)
Charlotte Sometimes (England)
Frost, Freezes, and Fairs (England)
Waverley (Scotland)
The Peppermint Pig (England)
Guy Mannering (Scotland)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (England)
The Village School (England)
Her Royal Spyness (England)
Medicus (England, Britannia)
Wuthering Heights (England)

Vatican City

3Tess_W
Jun. 16, 2021, 12:13 am

As I surmised, I 'm heavy on the UK...although this does contain 4 countries, all my reading has been, for the most part, in England.

4pamelad
Jun. 16, 2021, 1:44 am

You've encouraged me to get back in the race. I have some difficult countries remaining to be filled.

5Tess_W
Bearbeitet: Jun. 19, 2021, 8:45 am

>4 pamelad: I could have probably had a lot this all filled out, but only counting books I've read beginning this year.

6Tess_W
Bearbeitet: Jun. 18, 2021, 7:10 pm

Diese Nachricht wurde vom Autor gelöscht.

7Tess_W
Jun. 26, 2021, 9:26 am

Greece (another one!): The Theban Plays. As always, great reads by Sophocles.

8Tess_W
Jun. 28, 2021, 11:46 am

England (again!) Charlotte Sometimes Time travel and boarding schools, what not to love? Ages 10-14

9Tess_W
Jul. 5, 2021, 3:49 pm

England (again!} Frost, Freezes, and Fairs by Ian Curry.

10Tess_W
Jul. 5, 2021, 9:51 pm

Italy-specifically Sicily The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History Literature in translation.

11Tess_W
Jul. 8, 2021, 3:31 pm

France--(mostly) A King's Ransom by Sharon Penman took place primarily in France (Normandy, Toulouse, and Rouen).

12Tess_W
Jul. 10, 2021, 7:03 am

UK-Scotland Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. And ok book about the Jacobite rising, just ok!

13Tess_W
Jul. 12, 2021, 12:21 pm

UK-England The Peppermint Pig

14Tess_W
Jul. 17, 2021, 7:48 am

Italy The History of Rome: The Republic Volume 1 by Mike Duncan a good overview of the history of Rome from its settlement through the crumbling Republic. A compilation of the author's podcasts on the same subject. 371 pages 4.5 stars

15Tess_W
Jul. 18, 2021, 8:23 am

France Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran great read! 465 pages 4.5 stars

16Tess_W
Jul. 21, 2021, 8:50 am

Scotland-Guy Mannering, another Scott novel, meh.

17Tess_W
Jul. 29, 2021, 2:53 pm

18Tess_W
Jul. 31, 2021, 1:16 am

England-The Village School by Miss Read. A superb read!

19Tess_W
Aug. 6, 2021, 11:05 am

England-Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen, 327 pages 4 stars.

I really need to obtain some books outside the UK!

20Tess_W
Aug. 8, 2021, 10:37 pm

England-Britannia) Medicus by Ruth Downie, 427 pages 3.5 stars

21Tess_W
Aug. 19, 2021, 1:20 am

22Tess_W
Aug. 27, 2021, 7:10 am

Albania-The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi

23Tess_W
Aug. 28, 2021, 11:00 pm

Denmark-The Two Baronesses by Hans Christian Andersen

24Tess_W
Aug. 30, 2021, 3:26 am

France-(about 25% in England) Peter Ibbetson

25Tess_W
Sept. 5, 2021, 5:50 pm

Germany The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ireland Shadow of a Century by Jean Grainger

26Tess_W
Sept. 8, 2021, 6:53 pm

27Tess_W
Sept. 16, 2021, 7:14 pm

Italy-I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti

28Tess_W
Bearbeitet: Sept. 24, 2021, 11:15 pm

Austria-The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth

Now on to Belarus!