Where In The World Are You? - May/June 2012

I am in the US with Jonathan Franzen, making Corrections.

just 100 pages in, already amused and entertained.

I'm with the teenaged Adam in mid-1960s Indonesia, as he searches for his long lost brother using a Map of the Invisible World.

I'm in an unnammed US city (New York?) searching with debut author Dale Griffiths for the Origin of the Soul. It looks like it will be a 'shock-horror' ride. For a fellow resident of Western Australia, Griffiths evokes the US antipodes well.

I'm again traveling much of the globe. This time I am grateful for The Blessings of a Good, Thick Skirt.

I am in England with Lionel Logue as he helps King George VI prepare for The King's Speech.

I'm in Rwanda with We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families and in Florida with John Muir's A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf.

I've just discovered The Shape of Water in Sicily and have endured the Day of the Oprichnik in 2028 Russia.

I am in Japan learning a lot from The Thief and trying to save The Mill On The Floss in rural England.

I'm in England with Harris and A Small Fortune.

I'm in an unnamed mid-20th century Soviet city, standing in The Line along with hundreds with other townspeople, but none of us know what is being sold, or if there will be any left by the time we reach the kiosk.

Hurray! I'm glad you are reading The Line, Darryl. I'll look forward to hearing your impressions.

I've just left the Ivory Coast, where I crossed Nine Hills to Nambonkaha.

Now I'm on my way to Tahiti to contemplate The Moon and Sixpence.

I haven't read The Line, but I have read The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin, which is about the same phenomenon, entirely in unattributed dialogue.

Finished My Most Excellent Year and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, continuing with The Maze Runner and A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf. Will begin Peony by Pearl S. Buck and Moby Duck: The Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

I am in 1860s England at The Mill On The Floss and on my way to 1930s Berlin In The Garden of Beasts.

I'm in a hospital in a postwar Romanian town, attempting to communicate with the Painter of Silence.

I just came back from the Solomon Islands, via the classic war report Guadalcanal Diary, and have traveled to Kosovo, having begun Under the Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo by Phillip Kearny. Kearny was a San Francisco prosecutor who was hired by the U.N. to prosecute war crimes in Kosovo.

The lovers in The Dark Side of Love left me in Beirut, and the first guy I met there after their departure is hearing the call of The Sirens of Baghdad.

Watching the Devil wreak havoc in Moscow - The Master and Margarita

I'm now in Samoa, with Stevenson Under the Palm Trees.

I am in San Francisco in the 1970s awaiting A Visit From The Goon Squad and also in France listening to what Lila Says.

I've left Samoa after a very short visit, and am now enjoying Ragtime in Simla, India.

I'm in Moscow with the devil, but haven't found The Master and Margarita yet.

I've actually had an abrupt and drastic change of plans, and am now in Ancient Greece with Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra.

#27 Ann, I loved those plays. I've read Antigone, Oedipus, and Oedipus at Colonnus more than once.

#28 Maggie, I've just finished Antigone. Loved it! These plays seem so very rich in ideas. It's obvvious that they heavily influenced Shakespeare. Heck, it almost seems like he just copied bits and pieces and put his own spin on it. I'm not knocking the Bard at all, but I believe I will end up prefering the Greek plays. Originals are almost always better. ;-)

I've left the death and destruction of Europe Central and am enjoying the warmth, food and mystery of Sicily on my Excursion to Tindari, the fifth in the Andrea Camilleri Montalbano series I've become hooked on.

I'm now in India, 1922, getting a whiff of The Last Kashmiri Rose.

I am traveling in the 11th century Persia, and the lands around it, from Samarkand to Buhara to Isfahan, and on.

I've been in Italy with Galileo and nowhere in particular with Predictably Irrational.

I'm reading On Black Sisters Street, a story of four Nigerian women in Belgium.

I've just left The Master and Margarita and the devil in Stalinist Moscow and am continuing to enjoy the mysteries of Sicily with Inspector Montalbano and his cohorts.

Rereading The Master and Margarita reminded me that we're having a year-long "Classics in Their Own Country" theme read in Reading Globally this year. You can find links to the threads for different regions near the top of the Reading Globally group page. Please think about posting your reviews on these threads when you read a classic, so these can serve as an ongoing resource for LTers.

I've been from India, 1922, back to ancient Greece once again with The Iliad, and now I'm in Mexico during the Revolution with The Hummingbird's Daughter.

I'm in and out of Spain, reading the exquisite Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina.

#37 - Sepharad is excellent.

I'm in the North Atlantic on the Titanic in A Night to Remember.

I am in South Africa with Boyhood by JM Coetzee and also The Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog.

I'm still enjoying Sicily with Inspector Montalbano, but I've also been with Children in Reindeer Woods in an unnamed apparently northern European country.

I have left The Box Man in Japan and am completely mystified.

I'm now enjoying Ragtime in Simla, India. Back to India 1922, I should say.

I am splitting my time between the streets of NYC in Open City and the hot west coast of Africa in Instruments of Darkness. This is all after I left the wonderful Oxford of The Wench is Dead.

I am in England trying to find The Invisible Ones and also in Russia learning about life there through Pravda.

I'm now on the quest of Finding George Orwell in Burma.

I'm out in the Australian bush, in a small settlement called Moonlight Downs.

In precolonial India, which was known as The Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire.

In Quebec feeling the St. Lawrence Blues in the 1970s.

Currently in Luxembourg with The Expats and also somewhere Russia searching for Dead Souls.

I am now in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, in the 1960's, wondering about Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes.

I am in rural 1800s Russia seeking Dead Souls, and in 1970s Laos for The Coroner's Lunch.

I'm now in Brazil/ the Amazon, in a State of Wonder.

I am in Belle Epoque France with Strapless about John Singer Sargent and his muse, "Madam X".

Life is grim in a Russian labor camp with the Hunger Angel.

It is Summer in a small New England town at about the dawn of the Twentieth Century.

I'm with Bruno, Chief of Police in St Denis, France looking at A Crowded Grave.

I'm viewing the Scenes from Early Life in 1960s Bangladesh, as they are narrated by a precocious young boy.

Sweden, kicking the old hornet's nest.

I'm still in New England; this time I am specifically in New Hampshire with Mag-Marjorie & Won Over.

I'm wandering The City with The Inspector trying to get into The Enterprise in order to start The Investigation.

I'm in Bonn, A Small Town in Germany, with John le Carre.

I'm in France and Algeria with The Magician's Wife.

I have just left the Dreams and Stones of a mythical city, probably based in some way on Warsaw.

I'm in Austria with The Post Office Girl and also in Laos during The Coroner's Lunch.

I'm sailing the high seas, headed towards the South Pacific and Mutiny.

I am now in England and Jamaica with Small Island.

I am with the first fleet carrying prisoners from Britain to Australia in 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet by David Hill.

In the remote Western Australian outback. Sorry.

#70 ha ha Lisa.

I'm in Teheran Censoring an Iranian Love Story. My aeroplane has arrived slightly ahead of schedule for the July-September Theme Read but the book looked too good to put it back on the library shelf.

New thread for July and August is over here:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/139214