Where In The World Are You? July/August 2018

Create a sentence, mentioning the geographic setting of your current read, in which the title of your book blends smoothly.

Example: I was just in Washington, DC learning about what it takes to know A Higher Loyalty.

I'm in Hollywood getting the scoop on the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

I'm in Oakland, CA, where as Gertrude Stein famously said, there is no There There.

I'm in Lisbon with a formerly wealthy Portuguese family performing an Act of the Damned, as we flee the socialist revolution by heading to Spain shortly after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.

I'm in Nigeria, sitting Under the Udala Trees

What kind of dawn is a "Wired Dawn"? Iʻve read other "wired" novels (mystery, Hawaiʻi setting) by this author, Toby Neal, but I donʻt know.

I'm currently staying with the Darlings with visits by Peter Pan. I've seen the movie as a child but never read the book!

Slipped across the Saudi border after visiting the Girls of Riyadh and am now running through the streets of Raqqa with the Brothers of the Gun.

It's no honeymoon being in Canada with The Robber Bride.

I'm escaping North Korea to China with The Girl with Seven Names.

I'm hanging out with a bunch of shiftless 1980s young adults From Rockaway.

I'm lost somewhere in the south making a list of The Things We Wish Were True.

I'm searching for The Virgin Blue in France.

I was strolling down the Champs Elysee when I ran into The Paris Wife.

I am off to Bulgaria where The Same Night Awaits Us All.

Greetings, all! My wife and I just got back from 2 1/2 weeks in Ireland. Hadn't been there for 21 years, and it was our first time going there together. While away I finished The Light and the Dark by C.P. Snow (England), the 4th entry in Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series, and read the fascinating novel The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNicke, about life on a Montana Indian reservation in the 1920s. On the plane right home, I began the charming Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson, which takes place in 1911 Vienna. My thoughts on the first two can be found on my 50-Book Challenge thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/281080.

>16 rocketjk: The trip sounds fantastic!

>17 Tess_W: Thanks! Yes, it was. We started out in Cork City, where we spent about five days. Then we drove up to the town of Westport on the west coast in County Mayo for four days. Finally it was a day in Sligo Town followed by four nights in the tiny County Sligo village of Aclare. We had lots of glorious hiking and found some great pubs, and some great local traditional music. Murphy's in Cork and Guinness everywhere else, plus the discovery of some unknown (to us) Irish whiskeys.

I'm in Dagestan with Shamil caught between The Mountain and the Wall.

I'm in the SW of England, glad that the weather is cooling at last, as we really don't need a Fire Court.

I'm currently in Our Own Country with Abigail Adams and also looking over the paperwork of George Washington George Washington, the Writer: A Treasury of Letters, Diaries, and Public Documents.

Quito, Ecuador is my lair, where I’ve just awakened from a Wolves’ Dream

I am in the State of Oregon where time is being told on only Red Clocks.

I am in Sicily, hunting with The Leopard.

I am in Paris with Simenonʻs
Maigret and the Wine Merchant, the latter being the SECOND murder victim of the book, the first having succumbed just before the novelʻs opening lines.

I'm in The Dry south Australia, trying to figure out a multiple murder.

I'm in Appalachia, Kentucky listening to a Hillbilly Elegy.

Have moved on to Paris where I can hear but not see The Phantom of the Opera.

Have left the Paris of Supt. Maigret
(by Georges Simenon) and caught a plane: Hong Kong to Miami, though Iʻm not yet sure that Miami is the
Most Dangerous Place of James Grippandoʻs title, but it does start out with
the closng moments of a flight there.

>29 rolandperkins: I had the opportunity to meet James Grippando and get an advance copy of Most Dangerous Place. I found him to be fascinating, the book not as much!

I'm in Salem, Massachusetts hoping they don't hang me along with The Heretic's Daughter.

". . .to meet James Grippando-- fascinating" (30)

Good that you got to talk to James Grippando. It crossed my mind in reading his Crime-Baseball novel Intent to Kill, that he would be a better -than - average conversationalist (which I canʻt say of all authors). I had already read two of his crime novels and rated them as mediocre-- worth finishing but not outstanding. Intent to Kill put him in the "Favorites" category for occasions of public library browsing.

I am in Israel, watching the world go by from Three Floors Up.

>22 dypaloh: Just finished The Pot-bellied Virgin recently and was looking for my next Ecuadorean read. I'll check this out...

I'm wandering through Lebanon veiled as a woman so I can listen to women tell me their tales of Pearls on a Branch...

>34 jveezer: The Potbellied Virgin—quite a title. How did you like it?

>36 dypaloh: I like it a lot. I found it very much in the vein of Marquez' magical realism but also a good primer on some of Ecuador's political history through the backdrop of the story.

Off to Bulgaria where The Same Night Awaits Us All.

I'm in Uzbekistan, surveying The Railway.

Hoping it's just A Dream in Polar Fog and I'm not really shipwrecked in Arctic Siberia. Right now it seems too real.

In Scotland trying to get an audience with Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles.

In Northern India, following the adventures and accomplishments of Siddhartha,* better known as Gautama Buddha. A rare, for me, RE-read.

*by Hermann Hesse

Soon I'll finish N.K. Sandars' excellent introduction and begin reading her prose translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh, which will put me, reading-wise, in ancient Mesopotamia. Modern day-wise, according to wikipedia, that would be "roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Northern Saudi Arabia, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders." Gilgamesh himself was the king of Uruk, which, again thank you wikipedia, was "some 30 km east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq."

I am in England, The Island of The Mad, searching for a mad woman who has disappeared!

>44 hemlokgang: // Too right - we voted for Brexit! (Well, I didn't...) //

Iʻm in Jacobean England, in Rome, and elsewhere in Italy, with Five Plays by Ben Jonson
(Oxford U. ed.)

Now exploring the wilderness beyond the Mississippi, heading West.

I’m in the Shire. You know what I’m reading.

I am also in Mississippi where I may have to undergo the Third Degree.

Currently with Sacagawea but will be moving further west with other idiots in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Old West.

Off to Argentina where I plan on gazing at The Bottom of the Sky.

I am with Young Henry of Navarre in the Bearn.

In an ancient China that has a lot in common with the modern world, with Lao Tzuʻs "The Way of Life" (Tao teh Ching): Witter Bynnerʻs translation, one of the first, that, decades ago, I ever read of Tao teh Ching. (I have about ten different English versions.)

I am reading The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers. It's the second Charlie Chan mystery, first published in 1926. It starts off in San Francisco, but I'm pretty sure from the slight bit of the introduction I scanned that the story moves down to Los Angeles fairly quickly.

I'm in Ireland with three men consumed with lost and regret, who reflect on their past lives From a Low and Quiet Sea.

Iʻm in Nuremberg, Germany, 1945. with The Nazi and the Psychiatrist*, where Hermann Goring et al. are on trial as war criminals, and chief psychiatrist Douglas Kelley is (unofficially) "on trial" by some of his colleagues, and by later critics in the psychiatric field as a wrong headed interpreter of the mental meaning of Nazism.

*by Jack El-Hai

Off to California to comfort someone with the words, "There, There".

I'm in a suburb of Paris where I'm spending A Year in the Merde.

Off to London, Where My Heart Used To Beat.

I'm in Iowa trying to avoid Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie.

I'm in India miserably searching for The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

Wellesley, MA, then St. Louis, MO with the early years of ACLU founder Roger Baldwin.*

*by Peggy Lamson

Moving from Pennsylvania to California makes me feel like A Stranger In A Strange Land.

I am in Washington, D.C. being initiated into The Hellfire Club.

In the Universe, with Stephen Hawkingʻs A Briefer History of Time

In England with some Academics trying to ascertain The Weight of Ink

Just left: the Bahamas, New York City
(especially Wall Street), and two New Jersey locations, the settings of "Money to Burn" by
James Grippando. A Wall Street thriller, taking place in the years leading up to the vast Wall St. changes of 2008.

Just returned from South Africa where I was chasing The Elusive Moth. Now I am off to Washington, D.C. to bear witness to The Final Days

Exploring Canada reminded me that I'm The Forest Lover.

I have been in post apocalyptic England having my life saved by The Girl With The Gifts.

Still hanging around with the Medici family and their newest son-in-law: Young Henry of Navarre. Hopefully this weekend I will leave the Medici's and head for Afghanistan to see A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Off to jolly England with my dear friend, Pamela.

New thread:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/292991

>73 hemlokgang:

? That's this thread!