Where in the World are You in 2025?

A long-standing tradition, Where in the World Are You? is a place for you to share the setting of your current book in a witty one-liner. Try to incorporate the title and the locale.

For example:

Now seeking a Haven off the coast of Ireland. Have you heard the one about three monks in a boat?

I'm with the People from Oetimu, who are teaching me the brutal history of the divided island of Timor.

The Imposter's deeds are being revealed not just in Barcelona, but all over Catalonia and Spain in general. It's like unravelling several tangled balls of yarn at once.

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>1 labfs39: Glad to see this thread back

I was chatting with my friend, Jim Patterson, in a bar in Brooklyn when I heard the news that Holmes Is Missing on the TV.

Despite being deposed, His Excellency Eugene Rougon has no shortage of sycophants in Paris.

I'm still on the bus through middle America, on the very long, long search for Miss Macintosh, my Darling.

In a train on the way to Želary, somewhere in Moravia, fleeing from the Gestapo in Der Mann aus Želary by Květa Legátová.

Wandering through France, I discovered The Lily in the Valley. (touchstone uses "of", but my cover page clearly says "in", and the French uses "dans")

Somewhere in Colorado, USA, attending the night talks between Addie and Louis in Unsere Seelen bei Nacht by Kent Haruf.

I'm in a foggy and rainy Amsterdam and a total stranger insists on telling me the story of The Fall he suffered from a great high to a great low, but it seems to me that he was just an average bastard all along.

>10 Selliers: 😂😂😂

Ok, in this case, I don't need to look for this book. 😁

Do you think you'll keep reading it till the last page? Or throw it away and look for a better reading?

>11 BuecherDrache:
I finished reading the book, it's under 100 pages. It's quite worth reading, imho, not so much for the "moral lesson" as for how much the author packs into it without any overt moralizing. I'll read it again.

>12 Selliers: interesting perspective 👍

Travelling between Kabul and Pakistan to save a library in Der Buchhändler aus Kabul by Asne Seierstad.

I'm in France and I unexpectedly bumped into the son of my high school boyfriend who used to Lie with Me; it brought back such memories.

I'm in 16th century Cairo with the diplomat, businessman and author Leo Africanus, during the Ottoman siege of the city.

Memed, My Hawk is coming into his own as the big-hearted brigand protecting villages in western Turkey.

Having just left Cyprus with Songbirds by Christy Leferi - a beautiful and moving novel, I have now started Twist by Colum McCann which is taking me to South Africa and the world of underwater cables.

Having just left Cyprus with Songbirds by Christy Lefteri - a beautiful and moving novel, I have now started Twist by Colum McCann which is taking me to South Africa and the world of underwater cables.

I'm in 1950s Guatemala City, learning about the Harsh Times that set the stage for the United States sponsored coup d'état in the 1950s and overthrow of the country's democratically elected president, which ultimately led to a decades long bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

I'm travelling through Central Asia as the USSR is dissolving. Everyone seems to be saying Goodnight, Mr Lenin.

I'm walking across the frozen Hudson river to Albany with Alan & Herman Melvill(e), trying to make sense of being a writer.

I'm in Japan, sampling Sweet Bean Paste, and thinking that the world would be a different place if the Japanese discovered the Americas and chocolate.

I'm in Island, reading about the life of german women who migrated to Island after WWII seaking for a job, food and founding a filled life. Frauen, Fische, Fjorde by Anne Siegel

I am headed for Honduras to look for a Maya treasure. The Codex by Douglas Preston.

Miss Kim Knows the lowdown in South Korea, whereas Elena Knows what's what in Argentina.

My niece thought she would like to get an ice cream cone at The Cold Crematorium. I assured her she would not.

Trying to read the portents from a cacophony of bone to see if I could live in remote Ireland in case I have to flee the land of my birth for the land of my ancestors.

Hoping this thread is still alive I want to report that I'm hanging out in Scandinavia with Children of Ash and Elm, and helping that great Viking Beowulf kill some hideous monsters.

I've been lax in recording my journey. First I was in Japan searching for The Village in the Mist, but only found the Russian Genius Under the Table. Then the Children of the Resistance in France told me I needed to visit The Young Bride, who had just returned to her fiancé's house in Italy. The Women, Seated on the train next to me, told me to visit them in China instead, but it was All for Nothing for the train was rerouted to Germany.

I'm in Iran, where the nights are quiet in tehran. But the days, so loud. Helping me to understand how the people have lost out since they became the playthings of Imperialism and their own recent leaders.

I'm in the PRC having a Dream of Ding Village

>30 labfs39: Great stringing together!

I've just left 1980s and 1990s Berlin with Jenny Erpenbeck and Kairos. I'm moving slightly west to David Park and The Light of Amsterdam.

I'm still knocking around the North Atlantic with the Vikings; read about us in The Sagas of the Icelanders.

I am mainly in Egypt with The Gales of Alexandria.

I'm in Tanzania in the latter half of the 20th century, trying to avoid the ever present threat of Theft.

I’m in Chile in the 1550s, founding Santiago in an Allende novel.

I've been wandering the anglophone world for a while, but I did contemplate becoming Vegetarian in South Korea and spent time in Japan with The Old Man Mad About Drawing.

I'm just back from a brief excursion to Japan where I stuffed my face with Sweet Bean Paste.

I've been re-reading Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene for the third time. A favourite novel that took me to France, Turkey and Paraguay and a few other places on the way.

I am in Israel on a Wine Journey: An Israeli Adventure.

I'm stumbling around Mexico, drunk and overheated; not seeking The Power and the Glory, just to stay alive and do the decent thing, if I can.

The Wolf Totem and the Manchurian wolf in general is an interesting aspect of Mongol identity and culture.

I'm going through both Heaven and Hell in exceptionally challenging circumstances in Iceland.

Aue! I'm in gansta Aotearoa with Kataraina and it's scary but there is lots of beauty too.

I've gone semi-native in the Faroe Islands, The Land of Maybe, so named because the weather tends to change your plans in seconds; for a whole year I will participate in traditional native food-finding activities, from collecting wild birds' eggs to whale drives.

I just returned from Paris after discovering The Secret Life of a Cemetery. Some wild times going on there!
Who knew cemeteries could be so lively!

>47 GerrysBookshelf: I'm reading about a cemetery too, the Cemetery of Lost Books in Barcelona, and in particular a book called The Shadow of the Wind.

I'm in Indochina, and The Lover I see every evening and who feeds my family, is a source of shame to all of them.

I'm in 17th century Barbados, alongside I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.

I am in Second World War Germany and France in Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan with a jazz soundtrack.

I am somewhere between realities in Washington DC with Lincoln in the Bardo.

I'm a fashion editor in New York fruitlessly trying To Forget Palermo and put my troubled past behind.

In our new flat in Lisbon, I'm waiting for Your Steps on the Stairs.

In Scandinavia, I'm helping Vikings to hunt Eaters of the Dead who demolished one of their settlements.

Ingrid Barroy may be thought of as Just a Mother, but that hardly encompasses the many roles she holds as head of the Norwegian Barroy islanders.

I'm with some Tali Girls in Western Afghanistan during the Taliban and U.S.'s occupation, and it's not pretty.

I'm tracking The White Bear through Greenland.

I'm travelling from El Salvador through Guatemala and Mexico to La USA Solito.

>27 labfs39: lol I wasn't sure of the purpose of this thread I thought it was just naming where you are in a book but now I understand and I love it

>59 labfs39: so am i!

Should we keep using this thread? Or will there be a new one for 2026?

New, undated thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/377284#n9059318