Where In The World Are You? July/August 2021

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.

From Mexico to Texas and musings and memories On Juneteenth.

I'm in Cabo Verde, in shock after hearing the sordid details contained in The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo.

I am travelling long distance through British India, where the politics is as twisted and ruthless as The Strangler Vine, which is becoming ubiquitous by the roadside.

I'm Waiting for Gertrude among the graves of Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

I am headed to Iron Lake in Northern Minnesota to meet the sheriff.

I paid a short visit to Luanda, the capital of Angola, just long enough to say "Good Morning Comrades!" to my classmates.

Off to Northern Florida where All The Water I've Seen Is Running!

Next I visited Shanta's home in a rural village in South India, before exploring The Coral Island, near Mango Island in the Pacific.

>9 -pilgrim-: That was one of my favourite books when I was a kid.

I awoke in France having had Eleven Sooty Dreams.

>10 MissWatson: Shanta or The Coral Island?

Worrals Flies Again, into Occupied France, where I am trying to decide who can be trusted.

>12 -pilgrim-: Shanta. There were quite a few books about Indian girls in the children's section at the library at the time, but that was my favourite.

Off to England to solve the mystery of The Collector.

I am watching the Four Winds create the Depression dustbowl.

Headed to an imagined island somewhere not in Argentina to be witness to The Invention Of Morel.

I will be in Turkey witnessing the birth of the Ottoman Empire, while trying to avoid getting hurt in the fray by.....Like A Sword Wound.

Anow I venture to Denmark, where I plan on engaging The Copenhagen Trilogy, since both good and bad come in threes.

I’m in the English countryside crawling under the shrubbery tagging hedgehogs in The Hedgehog’s Dilemma.

I hope the my journey through Romania will make my toes Curl.

I'm in the Dominican Republic in 1937, learning about The Farming of Bones, or sugar cane stalks, on a cane mill along with other Haitian servants just prior to the bloody Parsley Massacre.

Heading to Japan and a formal introduction to The Makioka Sisters.

Returning from the British Cameroons to Bournemouth and Jersey with A Zoo In My Luggage.

Returning to the USA, specifically Natchez, Tennessee, and an encounter with True Evil.

I am desperately trying to be one of The Survivors in Tasmania.

In the Netherlands, working at The Hague, people become very close very quickly, sharing Intimacies sooner than is typical elsewhere.

Always remember to wear gloves for a job as tough on the hands as being The Cleaner of Chartres.

Delighting in my arrival at a diplomatic banquet at Gyeongbokgung Palace in the Hermit Kingdom at the close of the Joseon Dynasty, awaiting the arrival of The Court Dancer who will perform The Dance of the Spring Oriole.

A dream come true, I am attending Cambridge University in England, studying everything there is to know about The Maidens.

I'm in the Tiger Bay section of Cardiff in 1952 in the company of The Fortune Men.

I am wandering in the shtetls Of a World That Is No More in southeastern Poland, which currently is a province of the mighty Russian Empire.

In Paris, having just attended a reading by Guy de Maupassant from his novel, Une Vie at the newly opened Le Bon Marché reading room.

Maybe like The Book of Disappearance and the missing Palestinians, I'm in the ghost city of old Jaffa that was bulldozed to create modern Tel Aviv.

Taking a train from Edinburgh to London where Inspector Rebus and I will fight Tooth and Nail to defeat the Wolfman!

Jetting to the Hamptons where I intend to spend time by the ocean and Leave The World Behind.

In Lagos Nigeria worried about My Sister, the Serial Killer...and her boyfriends.

Moving from NYC to Detroit and back where I must be brave and accept blindness. Hello Darkness My Old Friend.

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