Where In The World Are You? January/February 2022?
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1hemlokgang
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.
Example: I am in Glasgow, Scotland becoming familiar with life in the tenements by getting to know Shuggie Bain.
3jveezer
I need a comfort read after this year, so I'm headed to A Place in Time.
4Julie_in_the_Library
I'm in England watching a gang of pensioners solve the murder of The Man Who Died Twice.
5Trifolia
I'm patiently guarding the border of The Tartar Steppe with Dino Buzzati in Italy.
6hemlokgang
Feeling trepidation heading to Iceland as I know I must face The Reckoning.
7wandering_star
I am increasingly fascinated by The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, mainly in the American South.
8kaida46
In Russia with The Bear and the Nightingale, and in Antarctica with The White Darkness
9mnleona
I am in Egypt with Red Land, Black Land, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz and looking forward to seeing the pyramids when I viist Egypt in 2022.
10Selliers
I'm on a walking tour in Japan, lusting after The Izu Dancer.
11labfs39
Do I dare to disappoint? Ok, I'll admit it, I'm growing up in Turkey.
12Tess_W
I'm trying to scrounge up some food as all the potatoes are rotted in The Hungry Road
13hemlokgang
I am at Andrews Air Force base trying to come to terms with The Anomaly, which is incredibly baffling!
14Selliers
I'm A Clergyman's Daughter in England, living a life of back-breaking work and food uncertainty whether I'm under the paternal roof or not.
15MissWatson
I am making ready for a voyage across a Sea of Poppies.
16mnleona
Taking a Nile cruise with Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
17nancyewhite
I've just arrived on the scene of an unexplained death in unseasonably warm North Devon in The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves
18kaida46
I visited the Antarctic twice in January and the frozen forests of Russia in the middle ages. Today I started on a journey to China, with a look into the lives of the Akha people with The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See.
19hemlokgang
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20hemlokgang
While I travel between New York and China I enjoy listening to A Song Everlasting.
21JamesBeach
I'm only on page 42, so feel I've a long voyage ahead to reach The Madhouse at the End of the Earth.
22hemlokgang
You can find me in Edinburgh, while I try to understand what the heck a Strip Jack is!
23labfs39
I have lived a thousand years or so it felt this morning when my alarm went off.
25GerrysBookshelf
Probably not a great idea during a pandemic, but I’m going Around the World in Eighty Days.
26AnnieMod
After shuffling between Malaya, UK and Australia to see the building of A Town Like Alice and stopping by Iceland to make sure I am not Silenced, I am going back to spend some time On the Beach in Australia.
>19 hemlokgang: If someone wants to, why not?
>19 hemlokgang: If someone wants to, why not?
27hemlokgang
>26 AnnieMod: not necessary, certainly not forbidden! 🙂
28hemlokgang
Fleeing from Spain to Brazil after performing an Act of The Damned.
29labfs39
Currently enjoying my time with The Bastard of Istanbul.
30hemlokgang
Off to a fictional village Africa, where I will spend time reminiscing about How Beautiful We Were.
31AztecCelt
Kicking off our Rollin' with the Holies!! world tour and sound checking The Harp of Prophecy for any messy heresy chords. If the fans scream: your lyrics are FIRE, no encores, no meet and greet, we just high-tail it out of there.
32hemlokgang
Secluded in a French psychiatric hospital, crossing my fingers while watching Narcisse On A Tightrope.
33jveezer
Being pulled towards Tucson with everybody else as I study The Almanac of the Dead.
34hemlokgang
Sitting in a cozy fireside chair in England, nosing through The Diary of Samuel Pepys.
36labfs39
Freezing my tush off in real life, thanks to Artic air from Canada, while laughing at the Killer in King's Cove.
37hemlokgang
Now off to Iceland for a pointless search for Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.
38hemlokgang
Heading to Toronto and a very intimidating Fight Night.
39labfs39
I'm trying to avoid man-eating tigers and stay afloat as The Hungry Tide sweeps over the Sundarbans off the coast of India.
40hemlokgang
I will be splitting time between New York City and Southern Italy, living with Strangers I Know.
41labfs39
I've left the Maus in Poland and am now fearing I Will Never See the World Again and regretting The Things I Didn't Tell My Father.
42labfs39
Left Turkey and headed to Jerusalem to hear a Tale of Love and Darkness.
43mnleona
In London with Mrs. Dalloway.
45Selliers
I just returned from the Middle East where I had an Appointment with Death.
46kidzdoc
I'm in Paris in 1942 during the German Occupation searching for Dora Bruder, a 15 year old unregistered Jewish girl who has escaped from her convent and is now missing.
47labfs39
>46 kidzdoc: I'll look forward to your comments on Dora Bruder. I read it last spring.
48hemlokgang
Off on a journey starting in Poland then on to the Hapsburg and the Ottoman Empires, all part of reading The Books Of Jacob, while simultaneously solving a murder in Iceland where someone will be seeking The Absolution.
49jveezer
Even while striving against the systemic racism in the small U.S. town of Stanton Kansas and the south side of Chicago, life is Not Without Laughter.
50hemlokgang
Heading to New York City and it's subway system where I will familiarize myself with This Side Of Brightness.
51kidzdoc
>47 labfs39: Dora Bruder, which was published as The Search Warrant in the UK, where I purchased it in 2016, was easily the best novel I've read by Patrick Modiano. I'll write a review of it this weekend.
I'm in Money, Mississippi, the small town where Emmett Till was lynched after he was falsely accused of flirting with a White woman in 1955, on the trail of a series of murders amongst The Trees.
I'm in Money, Mississippi, the small town where Emmett Till was lynched after he was falsely accused of flirting with a White woman in 1955, on the trail of a series of murders amongst The Trees.
52mnleona
In Arizona with The Sackett Brand.
53hemlokgang
Taking a quick detour to stop off in Maine in support of my Blood Mother as we reminisce and flip Through The Pages of our lives.
55labfs39
I made a quick stop off at The School for Good Mothers in Pennsylvania, wandered through Palestine with Joe Sacco, and am heading back to Israel for more Love and Darkness.
56CurrerBell
I just finished traveling through the Indian Ocean and South China Sea, particularly visiting Hong Kong and Canton in Flood of Fire (Amitav Ghosh) for the First Opium War.
57hemlokgang
Off to London to mingle with spouses of politicians, particularly Lady Clementine.
58kaida46
Jumping around Europe mostly, but landed in Boston and Australia with this one too. People of the Book
59hemlokgang
Heading to the Greek Islands to help solve the Moonflower Murders.