Where are you in September?

I've just left the Vietnam War in lotus Eaters. Totally not my genre of book I only read it by chance because the library sent me it instead of Berlin Game that I'd requested (and how you can get the wrong ebook title I'll never understand).

Very sympathetic to both sides. good handling of the reporters emotions, and well writen. If all historical romance was as good as this, I'd read more of it.

Currently I'm in an abandonded lot surrounded by motorways in 70s england. It is surprisingly hard to get out of a concrete island

I'm in the alternative reality of London, England with Thursday Next in Lost in a Good Book at the moment. Having great fun too. Delightful stuff. Also visiting various places around Canada with Some Canadian Ghosts, surprising how many haunted houses we seem to have around here!

I am lightly living in ancient Brittania and Rome in what is so far a good read, Persona Non Grata though I will have to research the author more to know if she knows what she is talking about. I suspect that some aspects, attitudes and ideas are on shaky ground historically.

Why the touchstone gives the wrong title, I don't know. I used the work# and everything. :(

ETA: Well, now it isn't even bringing up the title, though it shows over to the right of this post.

2nd ETA: Sigh. It now shows, but to the right it's still the wrong title. Grrr.

3rd ETA: Sorry, after reading something the author wrote about it, I realize that the title in my post is the American title and the other is the British title. Why do we have separate titles? I'll never understand this.

Anyway, I'm including the link to the article I just read, because it has made me fall in love a little bit with Ms. Downie. I know she is trying to make sense of the people she is writing about, that she knows and understands that much is unknown and I trust her now to be doing her best. Besides, she gives me hope that one day all my enthusiasm for history will not be lost on my children, it may come back to haunt them. :)
http://tinyurl.com/yzfvmlr

I'm in Iran with The Ayatollah Begs to Differ and still in post-apocalyptic Oregon with Dies the Fire.

I'm in Las Vegas with Temple Barr and Midnight Louie

I've been in Imperial Rome for a while with Steven Saylor's Empire:Novel of Imperial Rome. It's my ER book from July and I'm enjoying it. We follow a patrician family as the Emperors come and go. It starts with Augustus.

I'm reviewing my zombie fighting skills. I need to invest in more weapons, I think. The Zombie Survival Guide.

I'm in Nigeria in the 1960's via Half of a Yellow Sun.

I've got two books going right now - I'm in NYC at the turn of the 20th century in Martin Dressler and London with trips to the country in the mid 1800's in Orley Farm.

I'm in Wisconsin, reading letters and waiting for a beloved grandmother to come out of a coma in Sam's Letters to Jennifer.

#3, Thanks for that link/article MrsLee. I've upped my Ruth Downie books on Mount TBR now in preparation for this next one coming out. :-)

I don't know how to say where I am in Mockingjay but it is not a nice place, underground, and way way too organized.

I am in Maryland with the family of Henrietta Lacks, trying to figure out how their mother contributed to science.

I'm in East Carmine.

I'm in various parts of England and the Multiuniverse trying to find a Magid in Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones.

I love that book, Morphy.

I am re-visiting Kennewick, WA and trying to stay out of the attention of the local vampires (in Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series).

I am in Saudi Arabia fighting in the Arab-Turkish War with T.E.Lawrence's "The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom." I absolutely love it. His writing is so lyrical its almost poetry, he was obviously a brilliant man and his observations are witty and pierce through layers of cultural and political camoflage.

I'm in Arthurian land with Camelot's Sword

Oh so romantic!

I'm in the Seven Satrapies, in The Black Prism.

I'm in your ears, analysing your acoustics, with Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.

I have entered Culture space, with Consider Phlebas (first of the Culture novels, but not the first I've read).

Currently in Valdemar, accompanying the baggage train of Queen Selenay, on her way to the Haldorn border...

Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's fall

Riverworld with Sir Richard Francis Burton in To Your Scattered Bodies Go

I'm in various kitchens around the globe as part of Gordon Ramsey's huge empire. I was expecting an autobiography and this isn't, it's a cash cow spin-off. Oh well glad I got it from the library.

About to wander the rooms of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

I'm on Harmony right now but occasionally visit the Heathcliffes at Wuthering Heights

I'll tell you where I'm not anymore. I'm not in Emilia-Romagna eating in their fine trattorias and homes. I finished the cookbook I was reading and now have to come back to Northern CA.

I'm jumping between Saskatchewan in Wolf Willow and AfghanistanPakistan in Three Cups of Tea at the moment.

I'm in Khe Sanh in Vietnam with Michael Herr in Dispatches.

@WillSteed: "all your acoustics are belong to us!"

I'm in Strangefellows bar in the Nightside searching for, apparently, trouble.

I just finished traveling through Peru and the US hunting after stolen artifacts and hanging out with looters in Stealing History.

I'm in Seattle fighting the undead with Joanne Walker in Walking Dead.

#31. I would love to hang out in Strangefellows too (as long as Merlin does not make an appearance).

I'm still in East Carmine, but I must admit I took a side trip into the New World wilderness with Jubal Sackett. I'm back on the red path now.

I'm on a newly colonised planet with a 2nd life astronomer in Pandora's star

Have just left Guernsey, having been hanging out with those fine people from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - not sure what can match up to that! What a marvellous book ...

I'm in Gander, Newfoundland and Menzoberranzan.

I'm in Egypt in 1860 with Lady Duff-Gordon and her maid Sally (The Mistress of Nothing). It's very hot.

I'm now both in Pakistan and Afghanistan, reading about someone who has been trying for years to bring real help to the people, along with the light of knowledge. Three Cups of Tea turns out to be an excellent book to be reading on this day, in particular.

I just finished a whirlwind trip through Sweden (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Pine Cove, CA (Practical Demonkeeping), turn-of-the-century Manhattan (Conquering Gotham), alterna-London (The Domino Men), the heather-strewn moors of England (Blacklands), Larry McMurtry's head (Books), Washington, D.C. (Thank You for Smoking), and then hopping around the English countryside (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). I love vacation! :)

I'm hoping to go back to Sweden today or tomorrow via The Girl Who Played with Fire. Maybe I'll stop by Busifer's for mushrooms?

I'm in Texas with Call & Augustus in Lonesome Dove and my own metro area, Minneapolis, though the fey aren't a part of my reality like in War for the Oaks.

After a lengthy break I've gone back to Quinsigamond to read the Wireless. It's not often you can say the last bit of that sentence and get away with it.

I just left the Nightside and am heading to Egypt to find out about The Red Pyramid

Still puttering around Chicago with Harry Dresden in Turn Coat. Almost finished, and then I get to read the newest installment! :)

I'm in a small town on the edge of the wilds, finishing my own post-apocalyptic version of Beauty and the Beast

I'm getting my game on in Unseen Academicals. I already love Mr. Nutt, how does Pratchett make us fall in love with a character so easily?

#41- You'd be welcome, of course!

Locked away in Buna concentration camp in Elie Weisel's Night. There's a reason Weisel won the Nobel Peace Prize. If this book doesn't bring the concentration camps alive and give you nightmares nothing will.

I'm back in post-apocalyptic Oregon, but this time with The Postman.

I'm in the Seven Kingdoms somewhere North of Kings Landing right now, still happily slogging through A Game of Thrones.

I'm on Rakhat in the Children of God.

OOOH, simul-posting, calm!

Fun, clamairy:)

but I'm not going back to the Seven Kingdom's until he publishes another book!

I'm in Romanov's house with Nick Mallory in The Merlin Conspiracy.

#54 or we at least have a date for a Dance with Dragons release.

Well some 5 days later I've finished the 1140 pages of Pandora's star. I currently uncertain whether I've the will to pick up the sequel which is another 1000+ pages. I might read my somewhat shorter library books. But anyone who enjoys gardens of the moon etc will probably like PS too.

I am in The Well of Lost Plots, joining Thursday Next again, specifically in the story of Caversham Heights, having great fun.

I'm in Sweden spending my ill-gotten gains and tracking down sex traffickers with a disturbed female in The Girl Who Played with Fire.

I'm all over the English speaking world in David Crystal's The Stories of English.

Still careening around in Culture space, in Consider Phlebas. Sometimes work just suck all energy out of you :(

I'm back in Pale. Should be heading for Darujhistan soon.

Wow, Gardens of the Moon is soooo good on re-read.

In Minneapolis with the fae and a reluctant heroine in War for the Oaks.

I'm having the time of my life following Mary Russell around England while she tries to interpret The Language of Bees.

I'm in Fingerbone, Idaho in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping.

I'm in Cremona with Stradivari and his illusive lost orange varnish in the orange chapter of Colour by Victoria Finlay.

>66 klarusu:
You just made me put that on my wishlist.

I'm getting woven into the Fionavar Tapestry. The Summer Tree will be the first of Guy Gavriel Kay's that I've read.

Fionavar is not typical Kay, just so you know... Themes or certain character types might surface or get further attention in later works but as whole it's more like an academic exercise exploring fantasy tropes and form than anything else.

I'm in the Old Kingdom trying to survive on an Ancelstierran education with Sabriel

Just finished a stroll through the lives of heroes of World War I. Written in 1953 or so, and intended for YA. Enjoyed the book very much. (The Great War)

Currently in colonial Boston with Redcoats and Rebels and in Jacobin England with Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence. Both good, but the second is pretty heavy on details and names. It's hard to keep everything straight.

BTW, what's a good Australian history book I should be able to get in the US? I know practically nothing about the subject.