***Where in the WORLD Are You? March/April

Thought we needed this!

I'm currently in Virginia, USA finding my Roots.

I'm currently in the former Palestine looking for Some Answered Questions ...

Travelling to Chile with Isabel Allende and her Daughter of Fortune.

I have left Norway and Antarctica with Chasing the Light and I'm not quite sure where I'll be next.

In Germany, watching The Mussel Feast my mother cooked go cold because my despotic father is late home.

I have turned up in England with David Moody's Autumn.

Ooh, The Mussel Feast sounds really good. I've just read another Peirene Press book which I thought was excellent, Portrait Of The Mother As A Young Woman.

Right now, though, I am with young Luka in the land of magic and stories, searching for the fire of life.

I have just spent Seven Nights in Argentina in 1977 with Jorge Luis Borges and am now travelling to a runaway-climate-change future, taking in NZ, the US and China, with The Aviator by Gareth Renowden.

I've had Lost Illusions in early 19th century France and News from Heaven in the fictional Pennsylvania coal-mining town of Bakerton.

I am on the island of Moloka'i.

I left The Ministry of Special Cases some time ago and now it is time to enter the Lands of Memory.

I'm currently wandering the globe in Questions of Travel.

I am looking at The Black Madonna in Zimbabwe and I am also in London bearing witness to Ordinary Thunderstorms.

I'm in Spain & Morocco with The Seamstress.

Just finished being lost in a baffling, nameless Metropole.

I've left A Harlot High and Low and the people who love and exploit her in early 19th century Paris.

I am in London in Ordinary Thunderstorms and also in Somalia hearing wisdom From Africa: New Francophone Stories.

18th century France with The Black Count and 20th century Europe with Madeline Albright's Prague Winter.

I've been indulging in Laughable Loves in 1960s Czechoslovakia.

I'm leaving Mozambique and Mia Couto's Tuner of Silences for parts unknown. The book was haunting and fabulous.

I'm in Hong Kong with The Piano Teacher: a Novel by Janice Y. K. Lee.

I'm in the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s on my way to San Francisco with The Sisters Brothers.

>15 dianahaler: Your touchstone links to a different book!

#23 I had a great time with The Sisters Brothers! Hope you're enjoying it.

I am in Penemunde and Swinemunde, northern Poland, trying to get to the bottom of Gravity's Rainbow. Its a very confusing time for me.

I've been living in the shadows with spies, first with The Expats in Luxembourg and then At Risk with MI5.

I have just left South Korea where my mother disappeared. Please Look after Mom by Kyong-sook Shin.
Now I have lost myself. Total amnesia, but I seem to be Finnish and have been brought to Helsinki in New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani.

> 15 Diana, I just finished reading that book myself a couple of weeks ago! I found it highly captivating and rather interesting. Hope you enjoy your read as much as I did.

>24 avaland: Avaland, the touchstone in Diana's post looks correct to me. The book has been published in English as both "The Seamstress" and "The Time in Between" but it's the same work.

I am joining Robert Louis Stevenson--Appointment on Moloka'i.

In the Gulag.

I've left The Orientalist dying in Positano during World War II and have participated in The Opportune Moment, 1855 in an idealistic, anarchistic settlement in Brazil.

>31 wandering_star: I found Gulag: A History fascinating. Hope you do to, Wandering.

>24 avaland: I, too, was confused by the touchstone for this book!

>29 Annix: I enjoyed the book and was transported to a different time and place. It's a pleasant and fast read, though I thought the final 100 pages dragged a bit. "Seamstress" (aka The Time in Between) reminded me of Winter in Madrid, though I think I prefer the latter. Have you read it?

I am flying between Antarctica and the USA in The Dying of the Light.

I'm By a Slow River in France during World War I.

I've left War and War in Hungary, New York City, Switzerland, and around the ancient and medieval world.

Zoli and I are in Poland heading east, and I am also in Thailand with A Nail Through the Heart.

I'm on the Train to Pakistan in 1947.......not feeling too great about the painful outcome ahead.

I'm in a rural village in contemporary China, witnessing the AIDS epidemic that destroyed the Dream of Ding Village.

I've experienced Equal Danger in a place that is and isn't 1970s Sicily.

> Crossing my fingers for you, dianahaler!

I've been in Perth, Western Australia and West Yorkshire in England with Graham Kershaw trying to work exactly who are The Home Crowd.

>42 hemlokgang: hemlok, grazie, bella, but I don't think there's any good outcome ahead.

I'm all over the place - in South Australia with Lola's Secret; in the UK with Our Tragic Universe; and in the wonderful Westeros with part 2 of A Storm of Swords.

I've been in Sicily with To Each His Own.

I'm in an unnamed mid-20th century Egyptian coastal town, plotting the downfall of the local governor with The Jokers.

I'm still in the Punjab in 1947. Train to Pakistan is short, but I can't quite manage to finish it.

I reminisced my way through the East End of London in the Shadows of the Workhouse and then hung out in Vancouver BC learning why Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust. Wondering where to go next.

I've spent The Day of the Owl in 1960s Sicily.

Back in the US with The Orchardist and still in England with All That Follows.

I am now in Australia dealing with Theft and also in Poland with the lively Zoli.

Not far from here in south-west Australia, and in London and ready to starti a new Gilgamesh epic with Joan London.

>53 TedWitham: I read her Gilgamesh a number of years ago. I liked it.

After finishing Tuner of Silences by Couto and leaving Mozambique, I drove up the east coast of Africa to Tanzania and blew through Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise, which was a terrific coming-of-age story set just as the German colonists are beginning to arrive in the area.

Now, I've gone west and am partially in Nigeria with Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference.

>54 avaland: I'm certainly enjoying Gilgamesh, both the writing and the very local references.

I have recently left New York and Paris in the care of the excellent collection "Names" by Marilyn Hacker, and am now spending my time with several real and one mythical Sri Lankan cricketer in Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka.

I've just arrived in Bucharest in 1939 in The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning.

I'm in Dallas waiting for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

I'm being scared in Iceland in I Remember You.

#57 -- The Balkan Trilogy was a wonderful read for me. I hope you are enjoying it!

Whew, it's been a busy week. I've visited All My Friends in France, failed in my attempt to become a Five Star Billionaire in Shanghai, and landed with a Pow! in rural China.

I've just discovered It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway in contemporary Russia.

And now I've left The Issa Valley in Lithuania in the early 20th century.

I've just watched people Smile As They Bow at a spirit festival in Burma.

Berlin, Vienna, Belgium at the beginning of World War I with Albert Einstein on The Day Without Yesterday.

I'm in New Guinea with Anna Faulkner's The Beloved.

Now I'm in an unsettling North Korea with The Orphan Master's Son.

In Afghanistan with The Shadow Patrol.

I'm in Sydney with Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel and also in Quebec watching Fish change direction in cold weather by Pierre Szalowki.

and also in North Korea listening to The Orphan Master's Son.

I just left The Necklace and Other Tales in late 19th century France.

I am on The Devil's Highway between Mexico and the USA, and also in Maine getting to know The Burgess Boys.

>71 hemlokgang: Hemlok, I did not know that The Burgess Boys were up in Maine. I will look forward to knowing them better.

I just left The Shadow Patrol in Afghanistan and am venturing into politically correct Seattle with Where'd You Go, Bernadette.

I am doubling up at the moment.

I am in Buenos Aires on the trail of the elusive Julio Martel, and may be close to discovering Borges' Aleph in The Tango Singer.

I am also in financial trouble in the Faroes, having bid waaaaaay to much money for whale meat in the company of The Old Man and His Sons.

I was recently in 1950's Syria learning The Calligrapher's Secret. I have recently embarked on a journey on The Long Ships with some devilish Vikings

Oh, I LOVE The Long Ships!

I'm doing some Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking.

I'm new to the group but I too have done Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking! I've just finished chasing Cass Neary to Maine with Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand. And am going on to visit Rome with Death of a Showgirl by Tobias Jones. As you can see I tend to travel criminally.

I love that I tend to travel criminally. LOL!

I just left France under the Code Name Verity, and I'm now saying Farewell to the East End of London.

Seeing New York quite differently through the transhuman eyes of Martin Higgins's Human. (Touchstones not right...)

>79 TedWitham:
Human?

Finished saying Farewell to the East End of London and have toddled off to Sri Lanka where I am being a very Disobedient Girl.

I'm going Street to Street in a rather depressing Sydney.

I took a trip up the Thames with Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog.

I've been enjoying meeting some live and Dead Souls in provincial Russia.

I finally finished Dealing with Dragons with my daughter and am now in the claustrophobic environment of M15 with a Sweet Tooth.

I have lost the books I am reading. There should be a name for this sort of agony...

While I look for them I am assessing the quality of farming practices in the Soviet Union with Valentin Ovechkin's short story collection Collective Farm Sidelights.

I'll meet you in corridors labfs39. I'm also enjoying a Sweet Tooth. Also in Victoria surviving The SUnlit Zone.

Mainly in Sri Lanka, but sometimes in London, New York, Pasadena and the moon, working with Arthur C. Clarke on The Last Theorem.

I am Leaving the Atocha Station in Madrid.

I am visiting Brasília, Brazil, experiencing the five seasons of love.

I'm packing a gun and travelling between Alabama and Northern Ireland with Seventy Times Seven by John Gordon Sinclair.

I'm in Malayasia just prior to the invasion by Japan in The Gift of Rain, in the New York state in A Northern Light, and at Harvard with Mornings on Horseback.

I'm on the south coast of NSW in a library with The Railwayman's Wife; I'm The White Woman on the Green Bicycle tootling around Trinidad; and I'm also in England satisfying my Sweet Tooth.

I am still in New york and Maine with The Burgess Boys and now also in London in the 1930s sadly Leaving Everything Most Loved.

Stuck in Malawi with Paul Theroux at The Lower River

I've been in a tiny village in Provence enduring The Sin of Father Mouret.

I've been in Disgrace in South Africa and have stayed there for a Blood Safari.

I ended the month of April in the non-salubrious Burmese Days of the mid 1920s, experienced a hallucinatory Requiem in late 20th century Lisbon, then entered and quickly left Nigeria in 1956, after I felt No Longer at Ease there.

In 1938 Berlin and the then Palestine, with a private detective sorting out The One from the Other and outwitting a slow-acting Gestapo.

May/June Thread:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/153746

Deleted and moved to May. Because its May.