Where are you now, part the next

I'm heading back to early Victorian England to find out why people are eating - or not eating - the potato and what effect land reform bills have on eating habits in The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. By the Western World, the writer apparently means Ireland, England, France, and the US. No mention of Germany or Italy yet and very little about Russia.

I just left Menagerie Manor on the island of Jersey, and am heading into wherever Little, Big is set.

I am in Boston, just after the Boston Mssacre, in The Rebellion of Jane Clarke.

I'm in Dragon Age's Ferelden, saving the world from the darkspawn Blight.

I'm traipsing around England in 1529 with Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall.

Huh, well, I'm all over the place right now: traveling through fantastical Arabian lands in Arabian Nights, 18th century France with Rousseau's Confessions, 17th century Italy with The Betrothed, fantastical England with Le Morte d'Arthur, the Old West with Smoky the Cowhorse and the colonial (and early post-colonial) US with John Adams.

On Mars of millenia ago watching gods battle with the fates of men in an ER release Rhone. So far I think the mars bit is unnecessary, but the gods are quite enjoyably capricious.

Split between being in England with Max and in California with Fang in Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, a Maximum Ride novel by James Patterson.

Several millenia ago, on an oasis in the desert in Many Waters.

I'm in Darujistan with Whiskeyjack and company Gardens of the Moon

about to be sent out on a 'pirate' ship with Lock Lamora in Red seas under red skies

I'm in New York in the '30s with Thelonious Monk.

I just finished pouring over a Chinese families genealogy with them, and I've returned from the little Mexican farm with a very large family. Sort of in limbo about where to go next, though I occasionally go the rounds with Father Brown solving life's little mysteries. I think I may do some traveling with the witches from Discworld and go Abroad.

Just left ancient China with Under Heaven, and am now in England, 1813, with Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict.

Just back from France, Italy, Spain, East Africa, Key West, Cuba and Idaho (yay GDeers) with Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure. Great scenery, but I was put off Hemingway in high school, and see no reason to revise my opinion.

I'm on Discworld with occasional jaunts into Eygpt, circa 1880's to 1889 to see what Amelia Peabody's is up too

Just before bedtime, I'll be back in Chicago with Harry Dresden. Yippee!

Forgot to add that I'm also in Kent with Nurse Crawford while she gets caught up in a tragic death. I'm listening to A Duty to the Dead and I'm really enjoying it.

Bon Temps, Louisiana, fighting fairies, crazed lovers and prejudice in Dead and Gone

19> sounds like a good book!

It is, actually. The series was going a bit flat, but this one gave it some more life. I totally picked who did it, but that doesn't flatten my enjoyment.

Dividing my time between the Western front in the First World War, and the Federation/Orion border in Children of Kings, which I'm finding to be quite a page-turner.

I'm in late Republican Rome following Cicero around in Conspirata

#19
Are the books as good as the TV show? I know it's a weird question, as the show *derived* from the books, but still... When I got ahold of the first two seasons, I gulped them down! Can't wait for the third one. I'm curious if the books would have the same impact on me...

When I first replied to an earlier version of this thread, I mentioned the same book I'm reading now, heh... :D (I think this is my second re-read of American Gods, it's that good!)

I'm currently accompanying Shadow on his travels through the US. We're in Cairo, Illinois, at the moment, visiting with Messrs. Ibis & Jacquel on our way to meet Mr Wednesday.

The books are better, IMHO. They're a lot more lighthearted than the TV show, which was too gritty for my tastes. The bit I like int the books is the contrast between the darkness of the supernatural world with the every-dayness of the mundane world, in that the supes are interesting and fascinating, but they come with the danger that you can't separate. The mundane world is less interesting, but much safer.

#23 - I love reading threads when I'm really tired. I read your post as, "I'm in late Republican Rome following Cicero around in Constipata." Which sort of has a whole other meaning.

Forgot to say that I'm in Gondor when I'm traveling to and from work, with Pippin and Gandalf in The Return of the King.

I'm in Tal Verrar with Locke and Jean -- same book as readafew (#11)!

27 > how did you like that opening scene?

#28 -- Gripping! I kept waiting to get the back-story up to that point -- finally got there yesterday evening, and I'll just say it was much as I suspected. ;-)

ya, I'm still waiting to get there. right now they're in pirate training...

I'm languishing in 1920's Germany, trying to understand how they got from WWI to WWII and the Third Riech in Weimar Germany. Interesting book, but definitely not a fast read for me.

Somewhere in Virginia with Barbara Kingsolver and Animal Vegetable Miracle; and all over southern Africa with Natural Selections by Don Pinnock -- touchstones don't seem to have heard of this one, but it's short articles on all sorts of things, riginally published as a column in Getaway magazine.

I'm just about to enter the Republic of Gilead to meet Offred. I'm a little worried though because women there are no longer allowed to read. Ughh!

I'm still on Mars. Feels like I've been there forever, even when I've taken side trips to other places ;-)

34 > I know what you mean, it seemed to take forever to get through them. I enjoyed reading them but they aren't a light read.

Spending some time at the Eager Beaver watching the Strip Tease.

I crossed the plains with B H Roberts - loved the part when he went to sleep in the barrel of molasses - but once he got to Utah it lost my interest. Still in WWI London with Bess Crawford in A Duty to the Dead.

Now I'm in Candor, Florida, trying to outsmart the subliminal messages.

Living in a basement apartment in Harry Dresden's Chicago in Death Masks. Rereading the series and really looking forward to reading Changes which has been sitting on my shelf for a week or two now.

After another layover in Balbec, I'm back in Paris with The Captive and leaving for good (God willing) before July to someplace a wee bit shorter.

*touchstone no workee

I'm somewhere in South Dakota, in a bus that's skidded off the road, getting mighty cold with Jack Reacher in 61 Hours.

I'm back in ancient Thebes for the Nth time, witnessing Oedipus self-de(con)struct in Oedipus Tyrannus (I'm already starting to prep for next year's classes!).

I'm in Verona with Romeo's Ex, but the faux-Elizabethan writing style is getting on my nerves, so I may not stay.

Lankhmar, with Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Now I'm wandering around Lake Huron with Hawkeye trying to avoid getting scalped. This is a much easier read than I expected.

I'm in the Union of Socialist American States with Zhang Zhongshan in China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh.

I decided to head back to Hogwarts for a little while for some comfort reading.

After sadly finishing my travels through Anne Bishops worlds, I felt the need for something epic, so I've Travelled to Katherine Kerr's Deverry - is 14 books epic enough? lol :)

i just left eygpt 1886 and have spun from discworld into America current time in Royal Entanglements. I'm still getting my bearings

Kerr really is epic, Seanie. The first four are my favourites, second only to the Farseers.

I am in upper class England between the wars (one of my favorite places) with Dark Angel, which is better than a pulpy novel has any right to be with side trips to a space-ship orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth with Octavia Butler's, Dawn. I recently left Shadow and Gaiman's America in American Gods.

I am in the Rain Wilds traveling up the Rain Wild River looking for the lost city of Kelsingra with a cast of fun and complicated characters. Great book: Dragon Haven.

I'm hiding in Cincinnati with Rachel Morgan.

I'm in the Roman Empire, besieging stuff with Siege Warfare in the Roman World.

I'm traipsing all over Seattle and L.A. interviewing anyone who may have any information about the death of Kurt Cobain in Love and Death by Ian Halperin and Max Wallace. Fascinating book.

Touchstones are feeling touchy today.

53> I love rachel morgan!

#52 Maggs - I hope you enjoy the story as much as I did! I just LOVE Robin Hobb & cant wait for the next installment!!! She certainly does create complex characters doesnt she! I have vivid memories of wanting to dive into one of the original liveship books to literally strangle Maltas at one stage, lol :)

I loved my travels with the Discworld witches. Now, I'm not really sure where I'm at, but wherever it is, it is in a graveyard. The author of Matters of Mortology is leaving me up in the air as to whether or not it is another world, another time, or an alternate universe kind of thing. Still, a graveyard.

I'm in Tuscany with Under the Tuscan Sun - makes me want to be there in the hot sun eating all the wonderful fresh local food.

>52 maggie1944: - finished Dragon Haven from the library last week, really enjoyed it, and have borrowed several other Robin Hobb books, an author I seem to have missed.

NorthernStar, you're in for a treat. I love those books, and I regularly go for holidays to the Six Duchies.

Today I've been in Lishui city, Zhejiang, China, with my thesis. Later I'll get back to China Mountain Zhang, which has moved from Socialist New York to Baffin Island, and the New Changsha colony on Mars.

I'm finally catching up on the Vorsingan family history with Barrayar - something I should have read years ago!

Jumping back and forth in time from 1891 to 2007 in Rennes-les-Bains, France to the shadowy, eerie estate of Domaine de la Cade in Sepulchre by Kate Mosse. Very engrossing read, so far!

I'm in Halloway, Maine treking across the frozen Kennebec River in the 1700s delivering babies with Martha Ballard in A Midwife's Tale. Life is tough!

I'm in sweltering Manhattan with Nikki Heat and her squad trying to solve a murder. Heat Wave

I'm outa that graveyard, still don't know where it was, but catch me going there again, no. It was creepy. I ran to Father Brown and clung to his skirts for awhile. Probably stay there for today, anyway.

Sounds like an interesting read, MrsLee! I also liked your review of it, and noticed you are the only person who has it catalogued on LT-- that makes the book all the more mysterious and eerie. Perhaps it only exists in your library? LOL. :

#64 majkia - Heat Wave is an actual book? I didnt realise the TV show Castle was based on a book let alone that the books the main character writes are also actual books! I might have to investigate...

Seanie, actually, the book is based on the TV show! It's not bad, either, and there is a second one planned, Naked Heat.

The jacket even has Nathan Fillion's picture for the author.

>64 majkia:, 67-69, I got Heat Wave out of the library a few weeks ago - who could resist a fictional book written by a fictional author! I quite enjoyed it, but don't know that I'd buy a copy. Fun to read with the TV show in mind.

#66 - It is a self-published book, but I see potential in that author. I have his second book as well, but I'm not ready to tackle it yet. :)

I'm going through all the Septimus Heap books right now. We're in the Castle going through everything looking for Nikko and Snorri.

I'm at Belfield Hall with Miss Dido Kent, wondering if her dear niece Catherine has chosen her intended wisely.

I'm in Sydney, Australia with Laurence and Temeraire, thanks to the generosity of a friend who got an advance copy of Tongues of Serpents.

74> OOOO I want that book!

Right now I've stopped in at hogwarts to say hello, don't know where I'll go next....

#74 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in the Eurasian Steppes with The Horse, The Wheel, and Language.

77 - Oh, then you'll like the backlog of lecture note's I'm sending you soon (sorry I've been so lax on that!).

>78 Choreocrat:
YAY!!!!!

I also have a question about something I read in the book, which I'll ask tomorrow when I'm not typing in the dark. I thought to myself after I read the passage, "I can ask a real life linguist about this!" Then I giggled and got weird looks from my family.

False alarm. The author waited until a subsequent chapter to answer my question.

Thanks for bringing back this theme, cmbohn. It's always one of my favs to peruse.

#23 - MrsLee, you made me guffaw! :oD

So, my latest ER book has be traipsing around my old stomping ground, the North Fork of the Isle of Long, during the 1970s. Enjoying it, so far... just haven't had a whole lot of reading time lately. :o/

I'm in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa with Médecins sans Frontieres in Three Letter Plague finding out why the stigma attached to HIV testing and AIDS is so great in Africa that people die rather than get treatment. Disturbing and interesting.

I'm in Budapest with Gertrude Bell, enjoying the 1888 season. Very glamerous!

I'm in the kitchen with Biba Caggiano, sampling food from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, and when I've had all of that I can absorb, I dive into the 1400s in England, right into the middle of political conspiracies with Dame Frevisse in The Bastard's Tale.

I always love these threads too! I'm in Victorian England with Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters and really enjoying it!

Can you imagine I'm STILL on Mars (Blue Mars)?!?! But now with less than 100 pages left, and it seems to be worth the struggle.

I so long to read something that's easy to digest. I had planned to read a heavy non-fic next but I think I'll rethink that decision.

Wow, couldn't get out of England last night until I was finished. Great tale!

Now, and I mean tomorrow or the next day, I'm going to be stumbling around the Klamath Mountains in California (not far from where I actually live) with a former marijuana grower who found the murdered body of a biologist friend. I think we're going to get help from a herpetologist, too. The Turquoise Dragon by David Rains Wallace

I'm in Beszel (or is it Ul Qoma?) in The City and The City by China Mieville.

Just got back from Madensky Square -- Vienna is lovely at this time of year -- and at a bit of a loss as to where to go next.

I am in a small village called Ballindoon in Ireland. Village life is tranquil but tricky when you are a divorced woman. You must be Civil and Strange (sorry my bracket key is stuck!)

Finished up in England and then took a quick trip into space with Jenna Starborn. Now I'm back on earth and wandering through medieval Paris in The Seven Ages of Paris.

I'm now in Kitai with Shen Tai in Under Heaven.

I am looking forward to Sunday in Roman occupied Britain with The Eagle of the Ninth.

In an as yet unnamed city trying to save the gargoyles - Alchemy of Stone

94- I hope you succeed, I love gargoyles.

I am visiting a country house in England 1904, the eldest son here is HOT! *fans self with delicate silk fan*

I'm in Chromatacia with Eddie Russett, trying to figure out what's going on.

I'm now in Egypt with the Kane kids, learning about Egyptian mythology.

Aha! This is where the what everyone's reading thread is!

I'm in Sierra Leone in 1810 or so, where Stephen Maturin is courting fellow naturalist Mrs. Wood in the final complete Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen. I'm also in Boulder, CO, in the 1990's, in the audible version of Bellweather and wondering if there's gonna be a plot or just a lot of statistics and annoying characters in this book. Anyone want to motivate me on this one?

I'm in the post-bellum south with the Rebel:Johnny Yuma.

There is a plot to Bellwether, but it is intimately combined with the statistics and the fads. This book is enjoyable for the screball comedy.

I am with Octavia Butler still trying to figure out the various superpowers in Seed to Harvest and simultaneously with Oliver Cromwell the good guy (?) in Wolf Hall.

Currently in the Antarctic reading The Final Warning by James Patterson.

I'm Lost in a Good Book with Thursday Next.

sandragon - I love that one!

I'm traveling in the Old Kingdom with Lirael and Sameth right now. Cool creepy read!

cmbohn - It's fun. Not laugh out loud funny, but it's got me chuckling to myself.

99 - I love Connie Willis books, and Bellwether was no exception for me. What I like is how she has a theme (or two, really) for the book and drops in details of them all the time. And I also like how they all have a theme of idiotic bureaucracy running through them. However, I can definitely see how both of those can be incredibly annoying for others. Bellwether did end up with a climax and resolution, but in a kind of round-about way.

In an alternate Chicago with Harry Dresden in Storm Front.

I think the thing about Bellwether that's bugging me so far is she's spending way too much time with the obnoxious, unappealing stock 20-something character. The scientists are way more interesting.

Yes, they are.

I'm in Portugal during the Napoleanic Wars. This book actually deserves a better title than Marrying the Royal Marine. Carla Kelly does her research and is able to give a sense of the brutality of war without making it impossible (for me) to read.

I'm in Kitai. This far Under heaven promises to be Kay in good old form.

I was in 1600s Jamaica for pirate latitudes but have quickly moved onto modern day Sweden where there are sinister goings on in Girl with a dragon tatoo

# 112, reading_fox, did you enjoy Pirate Latitudes? Got it for Don in audio, and wondering if it might be worth the listen.

Just went to the world's end with the crew of the Dawn Treader -- what a trip!

I'm spending time with The Black Company. I have the omnibus edition containing the first three books in the series and may just read them all.

I'm in Shakespeare, Arkansas with Lily Bard, wondering who did in Shakespeare's Champion.

I'm in Tudor England with Mary Boleyn, in The Other Boleyn Girl

*sings* I've been workin' on the raaaaaiiilroad, all the live-long daaaaaaayy!"

I started Nothing Like it in the World, but haven't really been reading it all day.

I am on the run in a stolen car in Florida with Stefan and Michael from Chimera by Rob Thurman

#116 jennieg
How do you like Lily Bard? I wish Charlaine Harris would write more in that series.

Oh, I am also splitting my time between Florida and Bon Temps in Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

I've just left Milan to go to the childhood home of Yambo in The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco.

I'm in Arkansas, circa 1952, picking cotton with the Chandlers in John Grishams, "A Painted House"

I'm punting down the Thames with Ned Henry, Terence St. Trewes and Professor Peddick in To Say Nothing of the Dog.

#120, I really like Lily, RioLindaAnnie. I've only read the first two in the series, but I find her to be very interesting.

I am alternating between being in 1910 Jerusalem (for the moment) in A River in the Sky and Versailles with Marie Antoinette.

Still in Kitai, even if I shouldn't - I have too much report-writing left to do before vacation starts Wednesday morning, but I just can't keep myself from reading Under Heaven; it's so good!

I lack self control.

I'm back in Eygpt, Amelia and Radcliffe, just can't do without me (the Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog) but soon I am going to Discworld again, I'll probably be there for awhile since I just acquiered four Books I haven't read!

I'm back in Gernia in Forest Mage.

I'm in Muskoka, Ontario with Valancy in The Blue Castle.

#113- Janny. It was OK, not his best work, but not terrible either. I reviewed it here plot description but no spoilers. If you like historical fiction then it's probably worth a read, but there are no references (very unlike crichton) so I don't know how accurate it is).

I'm currently on the road between Lahore and Calcutta with Mark who's the man who cycled the world. I thought this would start to pall after the first few hundred miles but 6000 in it's still interesting.

I'm leaving London and The Polysyllabic Spree behind. I don't know where I'm going yet...

I've been going to school with the Milliron boys in a one-room schoolhouse in Montana. Our teacher, Morrie, is wonderful. Halley's Comet is putting in an appearance in The Whistling Season.

I am hanging my head over the rail on the whaling ship Essex in the early 19th century in The Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick.

130 - reading_fox - thanks for the heads up on the Crichton book.

I've just left the English countryside in Danny the Champion of the World and now I'm off to ancient Iraq in Lugalbanda.

Mars as imagined by Leigh Brackett in 1951; sometimes you just want the thrill of good space opera such as that found in Black Amazon of Mars

I'm on Discworld with Rincewind and the "Luggage"

I'm on the aether ship Sophronia, near the rings of Saturn with Art Mumby and Jack Havock in Larklight.

Ah, I'm back to Castle Rock, checking out a quaint and curious little shop called "Needful Things".

I'm on a repressed future Earth in Star Flight, where apparently proof readers no longer exist. It's full of misspellings and even dropped sentences. I bought it new to read so I could save my 50's originals, but I keep going back to them to make sense out of this!

I'm in France in 1660 with the Three Musketeers in The Man in the Iron Mask.

I'm in a lighthouse with Candy Quackenbush as we try to evade the clutches of Mendelson Shape in Clive Barker's Abarat.

Interestingly enough I'm on my home turf! I'm gardening in rural Connecticut with one of my personal gods Michael Pollan, and just loving Second Nature: A Gardener's Education.

*curses touchstones*
**Oh, I got it to work for his last name!**

I'm on a vast MetaShipWorld parked just outside the galaxy with a lonely John Bandicut looking for a way home whilst trying to outwit a boojum. He's found some strange attractors.

I'm tracking down evil diplomats with Susan Melville in New York City and Miss Melville's Revenge.

I'm at a bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove Washington. Nice place

#146 Just wishing I was in a Bed and Breakfast somewhere in Washington (sigh).

I'm in the Antarctic with Captain Scott and Roald Amundsen and their men. I like reading about chilly places when it's hot outside.

Just returned from Rome in the last years of the Republic, in Rubicon. My high-school Latin teacher would have had us believe that that time and place was a good approximation to heaven on earth, and to be sure the city is a great place to visit -- now. But then, it would have been b***y awful. I wonder when it was at its best? Under Constantine? The renaissance Popes? or now?

I'm having a blast heading to Loch Laggan with Temeraire. I love the chemistry twixt Temeraire and Laurence.

Medieval Norfolk in the UK (I'm reading The Owl Killers)

I'm in Ferelden with King Maric in Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne.

Just left Landover, and am now in the Central Dominance with Vin and Elend, thinking about looking for The Well of Ascension.

I've just arrived in Plenimar with Alec and Seregil in Shadow's Return. I'm also in Lishui city, Zhejiang, China with My Thesis.

I'm stalled in US at the time of the Civil War - it's nonfic and analyses different roads to "modern civilization". Interesting but I might go somewhere else for a while.

I'm snowed in at the Holly Tree Inn at Christmastime, listening to stories from the various inhabitants, thanks to Charles Dickens.

I had to quit working on the railroads. Too many minute details and it bogged me down.

So, I'm now taking a trip down south with Sookie, observing vampires in Dead Until Dark. I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would.

While I exercise, I'm travelling through the millennium with Dave Barry in Dave Barry's History of the Millennium. What a hoot.

Then at work in any lag time I get (which isn't much), I'm playing at the end of the world with Good Omens in a reread to keep on the same page as my GD brethren and sistern. ;)

I 'm in two places, traveling with percy Jackson and at a hotel on the mediterrian

I'm in my own home, so to speak. LOL...reading The Corvette Black Book 1953-2007 (My lady owns one, it's a blast...)
Also in dreamland in The Lathe of Heaven.

I'm currently bi-locating in Ancelstierre with Garth Nix's Sabriel and attempting to escape a living prison in Incarceron. Only read the prologue to Sabriel though, and think I'll wait till I've finished Incarceron. I don't really like reading more than one novel at a time, at least not of the same/similar genre.

I'm in London in China Mieville's Kraken.

dukeallen: Oooh, I *loved* The Lathe of Heaven when I read it a few years ago - hope you enjoy it! There's a pretty decent movie version floating around out there somewhere, made in the early 80's I think...

Currently in the deep blue ocean off the coast of Hawaii with Max by James Patterson.

scaifea: I *dimly* recall the movie,and I'm really getting into the book. I wish I could dream a few changes here and there lol.

I'm on a dogsled with Knud Rasmussen in Vinterens hjerte

#160----

DeusEx, I'm reading Sabriel too! Well, technically it's me AND Tim Curry together in Abhorsen's house since he's reading it to me on an audio book. :)

I'm just entranced by his voice! Always been a big fan of his acting, but this is the first time I've heard him read.

>160 DeusExLibrus: I am an avid audiobook listener and Tim Curry is one of the best readers. A good reader greatly enhances the audiobook (and a bad one can really be a trial).

I'm shuffling back and forth across the English channel between London and Paris during the French Revolution - The Time of Terror - an early reviewer book I was able to dig out of my piles of boxes

I'm in Portugal after taking the Night Train to Lisbon and in Britain with Celtic Saints Passionate Wanderers.

#167----

I agree, Rio! I especially love how distinctly he adds to the voices of each character- his portrayal of Moggin the cat is quite feline, nearly purrrfect! :P

and now - I am in Texas - Books a memoir by Larry McMurtry (author of Lonesome Dove amongst many others :)

edited to add: My SO handed this to me in the bookstore saying "here's some porn for you" because it has an image of full up - happy bookshelves on the cover

and that just amused me :)

Siesta Key in Even Catsitters Get the Blues by Blaise Clement

I'm in Incarceron with Finn, trying to escape from the living prison.

I'm in Rhomatadon balancing the (magnetic?) power of the Leys with the politics of city and countryside living - rings of lightning as re-read prior to the sequels.

Running full tilt to the Apocalypse in Good Omens, but eating Italian food along the way as I continue the cookbook I've been reading for some time.

back in Egypt, 1900. it really is quite warm!

I'm at the Enfield Tennis Academy, in Infinite Jest.

Florida, following the adventures of Dexter and his Dark Passenger.

Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay

I'm on my way to Bôkthersa among the fingerlings with Alec and Seregil in The White Road.

Like Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her sang, I'm going Down to Mexico with The Savage Detectives.

I'm in Lionsgate City with Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries in Starclimber and I love that I recognize street and place names!

I'm bouncing between the twilight of the Raj in The Jewel in the Crown and The Raj Quartet and the English Civil war with Daphne du Maurier's The King's General.

I'm in Chicago with Inspector Alastair Ransom in City for Ransom.

Did this thread go poof when we started our journals?

This is the first I've seen of it. I'm kinda new, comparatively.

I am too, but must've been awesome times.

I'm in the mysterious and unknown homeland of the Proto-Indo-European speakers with Archaeology and Language.

Currently a stow-away with Esk on the way to The Unseen University in Equal Rites 3rd of The Discworld Series.

I'm liking it so far, and Granny Weatherwax of course. Loved the Borrowing parts with the birds! Reminded me straightoff of Clammy with Tim Curry reading her The Abhorsen. you'll see why later Clam. *grin*.

187 - Ooh, nice reading, Dayna!

I'm in Jackson, Shreveport and Bon Temps with the vampires and a handsome werewolf. Funnily enough, they're all speaking Spanish, because I'm reading El Club de los Muertos, not Club Dead.

Going to work and back, I'm hopping between Denmark, someplace in Italy (Venice maybe? It's called The Venetian Betrayal. I'm not paying that close attention) and the new country of Central Asia (all the -stans joined together). What's distracting is that when the reader tries to do the accents, I think I'm in Transylvania with a bunch of vampires.

I haven't had much time, but I'm dabbling in Texas or Arizona in the Justice Department How to Loose a Job and also in Egypt/England with The Rosetta Stone.

#189 - OH! Have you noticed any difference in tone? I have always wondered if translators take some liberties, or maybe I should say I wonder just how many liberties they take. How could one NOT let their own slant on things 'infect' their translation?

Edited to add: I'm back in plague ridden England, with Daniel Defoe in A Journal of the Plague Year.

#184 - I'm sure we've had other "Where are you" threads between this one and that, but definetly less posting since the journals.

I'm with the Caliph, various assorted minor kings, princes, princesses, djein and geniuses (which really ought to be genii but isn't) in various bits of Persia, India and China in 1001 arabian nights.

I am in so many places these days it's kinda ridiculous. It really comes down to where I am in the house or if at work to my location, ;-) So, if I'm upstairs I'm on the road to Eddis with The Thief Gen and his companions. If I'm downstairs I'm in 18thC England with King George III and his many children. If I'm at work I'm either in 19thC England with Sherlock Holmes and Watson on the moor or I'm in Addis Abbaba with Marion and his twin brother Shiva in Cutting for Stone. I think I'm a little distracted...

I'm back on the ocean with the British Navy but this time I'm with Alexander Kent instead of Patrick O'Brian because I've finished O'Brian but I want back into that world. I found 3 new used bookstores this week and I was a bad girl because they were good stores.

I'm still sitting in The Blight with The Wheel of Time. I don't think I'm ever getting out of here.

For a short reprieve, I'm in fantastic classroom with Montessori Madness. This is a classroom where there's no homework, your activities aren't graded, and you can learn as much as you want! The fantastical part? This book is non-fiction.

In the Kingdoms of the West in Guardians of the West by David Eddings. Or on a train somewhere (trains and places vary) in Train Journeys of the World. Or inside somebody's head (not necessarily mine) in Beyond Coincidence. The library did quite well for me yesterday.

191 - Liberties tend to vary between translators. Some will shine through with bits and pieces, while others will stick to a word-for-word translation, even with idioms! This translation's a pretty good way in the middle. A lot of the idiomatic character is left as it was in English - which might lose some of the Spanish readers, but there had to be at least some imagination on the part of the translator, for neologisms like fangbanger (translated cleverly as colmillero).

The translator notes also cleared up a couple of cultural things that I'd more-or-less understood but wasn't completely sure of - things like who Ann Landers is, and what Neosporin is for.

I'm happily back in Culture-space, with Look to windward (by Iain M. Banks, of course).
Never thought I'd get as attached to that universe, but I am.

I'm staying in Arizona with Rattlesnake Crossing, but in a more remote area than Phoenix. Apparently I will be meeting up with some nutso gun owners, but it's O.K., I know Sheriff Brady will handle the situation while I watch.

This stay in Arizona isn't intentional, clammy, I just happen to keep picking up books which take place there. Same thing happened last month with Phantom of the Opera, three books in a row had to do with that or with wearing masks at least. Weird.

Bah! I'm almost done listening to Wolf Hall and I'm at my wit's end. I don't want to leave the era, the narrator, the story... everything! :o(

I'm flitting around between the two spiral arms of our galaxy, shooting the crap out of anything that moves, Roman or alien, it's all the same. Tour of the Merrimack.

I'm also really confused because I'm onto book 2 of the series and its descibing a lot of events that happened before book1 started. Book 1 ended with some nasty time travel though, so I'm holding my breath all the way through hoping its all going to twist back into some reasonable shape soon.

#201 - Sounds cathartic. :)

I'm in Jane Austen's Bath Persuasion, which is easy, as I've actually been there, and loved it. Besides, I read a lot of books set in that time frame. (Currently just killing time until Progeny arrives.)

Edited to add that considering how they took *baths* back then, that would be very crowded, and very embarrassing to us both.

Bah! I'm at Oxford because of A Discovery of Witches, and I can't seem to put down the book! LOL Must be witchcraft involved...

Hmm, while I'm hunting here, there and everywhere for Alexander the Great's mummified body, I'm also reading about translating hieroglyphics and ancient languages, while getting rather muddy in 100ad Brittania Caveat Emptor.

I'm in "---shire" with Jane Eyre.

#206:
"I'm in "---shire" with Jane Eyre."

Foggidawn, I've always found it vaguely irritating when authors do that with naming places as just "--shire". I mean, what's the purpose of it? There's only about 345765432196 places that end in shire! Might as well put "--town", or "--ville", for as vague a description it gives!

Does anyone happen to know why authors did this? I've always wondered what the reasoning was behind it. And now that you've mentioned it, I'm even more curious. :o)

I'm in dystopia-land with Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories (not touchstoning) edited by John Joseph Adams. This morning I read Red Card by S L Gilbow, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula LeGuin and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - all intriguingly dystopian.

I'm on Masaq' Orbital, probably soon to get blown to smithereens, in Iain M. Banks' Look to windward.

I'm in 11th century europe with The Last Knight, but sometimes I skip foreward to the 1860's to visit Scarlett in Gone With the Wind. The rest of my reading is relting to school and lesson plans

I'm scared in the Lake District, just above the village of Windamere, close to the famous Lake. A 'modern' family with four stepchildren are on holiday in a creepy old house. The doll moves on it own, and there are some really unplesant bugs in the woods. In fact the reflections aren't that wholesome either. Somewhere there's some bad blood around.

#211

But what a beautiful place in which to be scared. I didn't want to leave when I visited it, but then I wasn't with stepchildren and saw no unpleasant bugs. :-)

Oooh reading_fox, that sounds good!

I'm in Attolia with Eugenides the Thief and I'm also visiting with Queen Elizabeth I in 16C England.

Well, I'm in some great smelling Shaker kitchens, and I'm about to step into the unknown and find out The Way of Kings.

I'm with Charlotte Miller who is wondering how to save her family's mill from A Curse as Dark as Gold.

Spent yesterday in the world of the Malloreon with the Seeress of Kell, and today oscillating between Ostar and Novosibirsk with Blonde Bombshell. Iv'e not read anything by Tom Holt before, but will be sure to look out for him from now on. The humour in this sample is wonderful!

I'm feeling a bit evil. The audio book I'm listening to, The Venetian Betrayal, keeps putting characters on the edge of death and I'm cheering on the ones threatening them. Yes! Kill them! Kill them now! I'm not very fond of the story, though it has some interesting ideas and I wish the main premise (the cure for HIV has been discovered) were true.

Currently oscillating between Mars, Ohio, some random Vampire family and a few other assorted locations someomes in the past in a collection of Ray Bradbury's short stories.

I'm all over, or rather all under, in Rising tide: the untold story of the Russian submarines that fought the Cold War.

I'm in the real world at the moment... I haven't read any fiction since friday. *sobs*

I'm in New York, and on Mars, with the Watchmen.

In my car, I'm in Washington D.C. and Atlantic City with The Collectors, I'm trying to get in The Way of Kings, but I've been either too busy or too tired to devote much time to it lately. It's not a book to read in short bits and pieces.

I was all over Joe Aberombie 's world in Best Served Cold - amazing, disturbing and fun, then in California with Sizzle by Julie Garwood which was a really fast and entertaining read, and now I am at Sealey Head with the great Patricia McKillip.

When I'm not in 1908 San Francisco, I'm in 1990's Beijing. The former instance is The Fire Rose and the latter is Flower Net.

I've just passed from New Fran to The Republic of Eden en route from The Second Great British Empire with Space Captain Smith

Tonight I speed read The Unveiling by Dennis R. Gilmour which ended up being a novel about the end of days and a reinterpretation of the bible. Not my usual fare given that I am also a member of the Happy Heathens, but by the time I realized what was happening it was faster just to finish rather than abandoning it and starting another story.
I ended up somewhere between West Edmonton Mall and Millwoods Town Centre, which remarkably is actually where I live.
Go figure.

I'm back under the sea, right now in the Pacific just off Japan, in Rising Tide.

I spent yesterday in London, Switzerland, Stuttgart, and at sea with the cast of The Unwritten.

I'm going to be heading back in time to wander the Spanish countryside with Don Quixote. It's ambitious, but I've promised to read it.

I'm in a void at the moment, unless you count the Shaker kitchen I dawdle in periodically. It will be a day or so before I'm ready to travel again.

I'm about to jump inside The Dome in Maine by Stephen King. It was the description that convinced me to try this huge book - I couldn't pass up a bunch of skate boarders fighting the evil guy.

The skate boarders were great. They were my favorite characters. Young and smart and gutsy.

In Minnesota with the Monkeewrench gang. I wish I had Annie's big sense of style.

Oh...I almost forgot. I am also in deep space with the future of the French Foreign Legion in Legion of the Damned. The empire is in big trouble with a seriously schizophrenic emperor and an invading alien armada at the borders.

Wandering through time with Jared Diamond watching civilizations Collapse.

Sandragon, I'm glad to hear you liked those guys. The book is so big that I'm tempted to skip-read through it but King is good with characters and I don't want to miss any gems.

Clamairy, how do you like Diamond's book? Have you read his Guns, Germs and Steel ? I've been wondering about those books.

Oh, they are fabulous. I have read Guns, and The Third Chimpanzee but not Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality. He is one of my Personal Gods.

I'm back in Westeros, at Winterfell, to be exact.

OH OH OH!

Well! I think next I will visit one of Clamairy's Personal Gods. Well, after I finish this book, then Dick Cavett (one of MY Personal Gods).

I am meandering into Oxford of the 1300s following A Trail of Ink. So far I've only studied the map and read the glossary, but those were both very informative!

I'm in Edinburgh with Anton Gorodetsky trying to solve a murder in Last Watch.

Up until yesterday I have been mired in politics in Tudor England with Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall which was so good that I wished it would never end, despite the size of the book already. Now I am joining DaynaRT revisiting the Seven Kingdoms of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones in preperation for the upcoming TV adaptation, specifically I am heading north from Winterfell with Jon Snow to start his new life on the Wall, so am wrapping up warm!

#243 - I agree, Wolf Hall was simply awesome. Does anyone know when the second in the series is supposed to be published?

I didn't realise she was doing a sequel oh I'm very excited now, enter Jane Seymour!

Sorry guys, but a quick internet trawl is still showing no date. However the trusty Beeb is showing a special on her writing "The mirror and the light" in the summer and, if we're real lucky, that might be at the same time as publication? However, the publishers would normally know at least 6 months beforehand, so the wait might be a bit longer!

#245 - I didn't realize it either until someone in a book group informed me. I ran off to Google for myself and it is true. It will be a trilogy, at least. I listened to the book on my iPod, but it was just soooo good that I plan to read it as well.

Edited to add: Thanks for the info, Athabasca.

I'm in Icewind dale following the 'adventures' of Drizzt, although he doesn't seem to be doing that much. At some stage he's going to notice the crystal shard is currently in the guise of a vast tower.

The Seven Kingdoms, about 1/3-way in to A Game of Thrones.

In Sweden, with Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist; I'm about halfway through The Girl Who Played With Fire, and since I despise spoilers I'll just put it like this:
Currently thinking, "WTF?!? Who killed those people?!?"
:O)

Abut to go back into the Realm of the Elderlings with Robin Hobb's new short story The Inheritance. I'm also in La Mancha, Spain in the late 16th century with Don Quijote de la Mancha.

I've been in Scotlant in search of Raw Spirit,

However I'm now back on the ground in Atevi space, working out who the Destroyer was and how the Pretender will get his comuptence.

I'm in St Petersburg, on the very last tail of Rising Tide. I'm undecided about where to go next but I'll find out soon enough!

Following a young woman around Dublin and wishing I could give her a good shake as we dine in Quentins.

I'm also in New Mexico beginning to be a bit bored with the Yellow Lies, although, to be fair, I've never read it for more than 10 minutes at a time.

I'm on a road trip with Rachel Morgan, Jenks and Ivy in Hotter than Hell

Knosha, why are you quoting my past reviews? There can't be other people writing about Lishui and reading Lynn Flewelling.

Me too. Didn't know I was quotable.

first I am in the home counties in England at around 1645 when the Witch Finder Generals are lurking.

I in a small remote village with a witch child named Nell.

In another place I am in present day New York at Duchesne School with Schuyler VanAlen , a small, dark-haired
fifteen-year-old girl, who has just found out that she is a vampire.

I just left the Nightside and am heading to a beach where Cal Leandros is waking up alone and surrounded by dead monsters.

* Why yes, I do seem to be leaning toward the edgier stuff right now.

I'm in Melbourne with Simon and Declan in Tigers and Devils. *sigh*

Have left the home counties and am now in New York full time :)

I'm back in Westeros with A Clash of Kings. I though I could stay away at least until after the first episode of Game of Thrones aired, but the Seven Kingdoms > the real world right now.

I'm in the Six Duchies in one of the stories from Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm's The Inheritance. I had to put the book down for a while, though. For some reason mysogyny *really* gets my goat, and she writes it very well.

Am watching prisoners doing 'Jem Botting's dance' at Newgate Prison in Regency London (Bernard Cornwell's Gallows Thief)

I took a break from reading about real societal collapses to wallow in a fictional one. So now I'm about 100 or so years in the future, in what's left of California, and completely sucked into The Passage.

I'm headed for Montana and some mysteries which need to be solved. When I'm not traveling to and from work, I'm still meditating on Russian food and hanging out in Discworld getting ready to kick some vampyre @ss.

In Cuba with Dexter in Dexter by Design.

I'm in Edinburgh, Glascow and the Islands, looking for the reasons of a poet's suicide, but its very difficult naming the bones that get turned up.

I've gone back to Bas-Lag by firstly checking out the short story "Jack" contained in Looking for Jake and Other Stories to get me in the mood and then moving on to The Scar.

I'm still in the Six Duchies, but this time I'm reading Assassin's Apprentice in Chinese. Well, I'm attempting to - it's difficult work for someone at my level. It takes about half an hour to read a page (I'm out of practice!).

I accidently flaged a message here. there was nothing abusive about it. Very very sorry.

#276 - 1 flag doesn't mean very much, as it doesn't show even to other users. But you can unflag it again anyway. Click on the flag abuse, and you should see a green "abuse, my foot!" option.

Didn't last long in the Scottish literature crime scene. Fortunetly. I'm now in a bicycle world, the awesome bicycle book (no touchstone) written by Bella Bathurst which is the only bike book I've read about cycling. Not a how-to guide, nor commentry on racing, or a biography, just the author's joy of cycling. Although she claims to be an "ordinary" cyclist, in the first chapter she describes going to a specialist frame builder to hand make her own frame. I think this is either a wonderful excuse for writing a book, or she's slightyl more dedicated than me!

In an unspecified future time with the first human gestalt in More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon and in India with Kim and his holy man --- Rudyard Kipling.

I'm still in New York but also wandering around with Harper Connelly.

:)

I'm in the poor little village of Yeshibozkent, Karzistan in the near future, learning about Air internet with Chung Mae in Air (or Have, not Have) by Geoff Ryman.

I'm learning how a mathematician copes with only having 80 minutes of memory in The Housekeeper and the Professor.

I'm investigating magical misuse in Albion with Aubrey, George and Caroline - Blaze of Glory by Michael Pryor (book 6 is coming out soon, so I'm rereading).

I'm now in New York looking for the city of bones dodging demons, watching out for warewolves, fighting the fae and generally hunting the shadows. It's a bit YA but quite good fun.

I'm in the Burn with Kieran and Ash in The God Eaters, trying to evade the Watch while simultaneously wrestling alligators in Swamplandia! and getting into the mind of China Mieville in Perdido Street Station. All big books.

In Oxford, researching old, magical manuscripts in A Discovery of Witches

#286 - And how are you liking it so far?

ETA: I'm watching HeLa cells multiply like crazy in our latest group read.

BUMP! or is time for a new thread?

I'm back in NewYork, still dodging demons (even more of them now) its still YA and the first kisses are somewhat cute. Lots of definitions of love of different sorts, but mostly its just a city of ashes.

I'm in Devonshire, and I've just met the charming Mr Willoughby. Oh, my fluttering heart. :P

288 - I enjoyed City of Ashes despite my expectations. The first part was not inspiring at all, but it improved for me.

On the moors, in Wuthering Heights.

I'm on the Chalk with Wee Free Men running all around.

World War II is over and I'm seeing the aftermath in broken lives and families doing it tough on Australia Street.

I am wandering around with Lilly Bard :)

Just back from the 72 different realities in Earth, Air, Fire and Custard. Still confused.

#289 I did enjoy ashes. I've just finished city of glass and it was a massive let down on the rest of the series.

Currently I'm in 1950's Des Moines with the life and times of the thunderbolt kid Bill Bryson's autobiography.

Ankh-Morpork, Death's gone missing and things are getting a bit weird - Reaper Man.

Been a few places since my #295 but I'm now in Alaska with four quarters of light

I'm in Tuscany, drinking wine and forgetting to eat, with Dolci di Love.

I'm in London with Fat Charlie Nancy, who's wondering what to do about Spider in Anansi Boys.

#299 - Loved that book! :o)

Me, too.

I hope they make it into a film. Which reminds me, I finally got to see Stardust, and I really enjoyed it. Enough time had passed since I had read the book that wasn't picking at what had been changed, because I couldn't tell. LOL

Joining the love for Anansi Boys.

I'm in the Highlands, not very thrilled, Outlander is a historical romance? Nobody told me that. Still, good writing and all, so I'll read it. It did inspire me to buy some single malt whiskey.

Back in Westeros, finally! Only a handful of pages into A Clash of Kings for the first time and I am thrilled to be back.

I can't remember the name of the nation - gah fantasy authors and their names! - but I'm flitting between the battlefield and the library with a bunch of cast and interuptions find out about the way of kings

I'm on Mars, mainly, in The Ouroboros wave.

I'm all over the world and in diffrent times too with Cassandra Palmer. What a ride!