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How many different countries will you visit in 2014?

Challenge yourself to reading books set in as many different countries as you can. ANY GENRE counts for this challenge!

3 Bronze Globe Trotter
6 Silver Globe Trotter
9 Gold Globe Trotter
12+ Platinum Globe Trotter

You can post your countries/books and goals in this thread

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2014 Globe Trotters
Londa
kisha
Beverly
Veronica
Kanita

silver globe for me!


1. The Book Thief (Germany)
2.My Name is Butterfly (Ghana)
3. Memoirs of a Geisha (Japan)
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Oops! It should be there now kisha.

Here is another cool way to map where you have 'gone'.

https://www.zeemaps.com/

I did one for myself in 2013. I haven't put all my books on yet, but you can get the idea. I seem to have totally neglected South America, Asia, & Australia lol

https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=720357

I am going for Platinum Globe Trotter - 12+.

2014:Silver Globe Trotter - 6

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I reserved my spot. This should be fun.

ok...i'm challenging myself to become a Silver Globe Trotter reading at least 6 books set in 6 different countries. This is going to encourage me to branch out and read internationally...and as well as get to many overlooked books on my "To Read" list! This will be fun. BTW, love the "world reading map", Londa! :)

2014 SILVER GLOBE TROTTER
(6 books from 6 countries)

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I finally left the US. LOL Went to the Syrian Desert in The Golem and the Jinni. 1 down -- 11 countries to go!

22. I just created a bookshelf for my titles.

If I finish Copperfield this month I can add England.

Who is going to Ghana with me next month? --- My Name is Butterfly :D

Definitely reading My Name Is Butterfly next month! It will count as a visit logged on my reading passport for this challenge AND as one more novel read by Bernice McFadden for the author challenge! I love a 2 for 1!! :D

Love those Kanita!

Here is my status on "Where In the World Challenge"

1. England
Her Royal Spyness

2.Asia
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

3.Germany
Brother Kemal

4.Ivory Coast
Padre!: A Place Whose Rules Rearrange Your Own

5.Belarus
Midnight Pursuits

6.Saudi Arabia
A Hologram for the King

7.Haiti
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

8.Morocco
Secret Son

9. Denmark
The Purity of Vengeance

10. Jamaica
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

11. Nigeria
Foreign Gods, Inc.

12. Japan
The Shogun's Daughter

13. Macau
The Red Pole of Macau

14. Syria
City of Jasmine

Wow Beverly! You are definitely going a lot of places.

I will come back and make a standings chart later. :o)

I'm currently in Rio de Janeiro (and surrounding areas) with City of God

Those of you who will be reading My Name is Butterfly for March with us remember to add this to your challenge. We will be going to Ghana with Bernice McFadden in this story!

This challenge intrigues me, I think I'll try and do nine.

1The Picture of Dorian Gray (England)
2 My Name is Butterfly (Ghana)
3 Around the World in Eighty Days (India)
4 I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Yemen)
5 Getting in the Way: Stories from Christian Peacemaker Teams (Palestine)
6 The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam (Egypt)
7 In the Land of Invisible Women (Saudi Arabia)
8 A Thousand Splendid Suns (Afghanistan)
9 Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Iran)

Londa, does it count if we visit the same country 2x? One country for each book?

kisha wrote: "Londa, does it count if we visit the same country 2x? One country for each book?"


I think I will leave that to your own discretion. A visit to two different cities(towns) in the same country could be very different. Visiting New York City and New Orleans, LA would be very different experiences, so I can imagine the same for other countries.

The same with two different times in history.

Gotcha

I'm in Japan now! I'm reading Memoirs of A Geisha. Where's everyone else?

I'm in Europe, learning the history of the Tudors

I'm in Kenya - reading Dust