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Book: The Moonstone - Wilkie CollinsCountry: United Kingdom (England)
I really enjoyed this book. It was straightforward to read for a book written in the 1800s. I enjoyed the use of multiple narrators (except Miss Clack, she was irritating) and liked the fact that there were enough clues to figure it out before the end without it feeling too easy. The ending was nice in that it seemed to come full circle. A definite must read for anyone who enjoys detective fiction!
Book: Edinburgh Twilight - Carole Lawerence
Country: UK (Scotland)
Book: The Break - Marian Keyes
Country: UK (Ireland)
Book: The Heart Is a Burial Ground by Tamara ColchesterCountry: Italy
I’m still not sure how I feel about this book. It was intriguing but slightly uncomfortable and I come away feeling a little muddled. There were a lot of loose ends, or at least ambiguous ends where I’m not quite sure what happened, whether what is implied is what happened or not? I also don’t know how I feel about the implication that mothers are wholly responsible for how their daughters (or children) turn out because I feel that even if you have a bad childhood at some point you need to move on and stop blaming others. But the setting of this novel is a real place so it was cool to look up pictures of the castle described to see how it really looks.
Book: The Gulf Between Us - Geraldine BedellCountry: Bahrain
I really loved this book, a lot more than I thought I would. The plot was ridiculous but her reactions seemed down to earth and I really liked the insight of an expat living in an Arab country and trying to reconcile the different expectations and rules.
Book: Montaro Caine - Sidney PoitierCountry: Bahamas
It really intrigued me but I think the ending disappointed me as it was just very vague. I think I wanted more concrete answers. Also, I feel like it wasn't very representative of the Bahamas so I think I'm going to find another book for the Bahamas.
Book: The Quickening - Julie MyersonCountry: Antigua & Barbuda
It was ok, I think if it had been longer I would've struggled to stay engaged with it.
Book: This Mortal Boy - Fiona KidmanCountry: New Zealand
It was interesting particular the sentiments of the population at the time. However, it was a fictionalized account and I wish I knew how much of it was fiction. Like did she base some of the conversations on real ones and were the characters fiction or based on the real character of the people involved? Also, wish there was more of an afterward to know what happened to his family and friends.
Can’t edit top post on my phone but to finish the challenge with just over an hour to go:Tuvalu : Where the hell is Tuvalu, Philipp Ells
Mexick: The Murmur of Bees, Sofia Segovia
Around the World in 80 Books
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Afghanistan: In the Light of What We Know
Antigua and Barbuda: The Quickening
Argentina: My Biggest Lie
Armenia: Gilgamesh
Australia: The Trapeze Act
Bahamas: Montaro Caine; Bad Monkey
Bahrain: The Gulf Between Us
Belarus: All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Belgium: War and Turpentine
Belize: The Possibility of Everything
Bolivia: Into the Jungle
Brazil: River of Death
Brunei: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Cameroon: A Zoo in My Luggage
Colombia: Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Croatia: Every Day, Every Hour
Cuba: Next Year in Havana
Democratic Republic of the Congo: City of Saints & Thieves
Djibouti: Djibouti
East Timor: A Dirty Little War
Ecuador: Everything Here Is Beautiful
Egypt: The Cairo Diary
Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone
Fiji: Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate
Georgia: Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate
Germany: My Friend The Enemy: My Childhood In Nazi Germany
Ghana: Homegoing
Greece: Aesop's Fables
Grenada: Sugar Money
Guinea: The Informationist
Guinea-Bissau: The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
Guyana: Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions
Haiti: Mr. Clarinet
Honduras: Madness is Better than Defeat
Iceland: Burial Rites
India: The World We Found
Indonesia: Of Bees and Mist
Iran: The Arabian Nights
Iraq: The Woman on the Orient Express
Israel: Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Italy: The Heart Is a Burial Ground
Jamaica: The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Japan: Pachinko
Kazakhstan: Diplomatic Baggage
Lesotho: Operator Down
Liberia: A Marker to Measure Drift
Luxembourg: The Expats
Malaysia: The Separation
Maldives: The Honeymoon
Mali: The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
Mexico:
Monaco: Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle
Morocco: The Moroccan Girl
Mozambique: Captive
Netherlands: Searching for Sylvie Lee
New Zealand: This Mortal Boy
Oman: The Turtle of Oman
Panama: The Tailor of Panama
Paraguay: At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
Philippines: When the Elephants Dance
Russia: The Shooting Party
Rwanda: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Samoa: The Pacific Room
Serbia: The War Reporter
Singapore: How We Disappeared
Slovakia: Zoli
Slovenia: The Chemical Detective
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind
Swaziland: When Hoopoes Go to Heaven
Tajikistan: Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia
Tanzania: Friendly Fire: A Duet
Thailand: Catching the Sun
Togo: African Gods: Contemporary Rituals and Beliefs
Trinidad and Tobago: Golden Child
Turkey: Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey
Tuvalu:
United Arab Emirates: The Desert Vet: How a City Boy Became a Bedouin Nomad and Spent Thirty Years Caring for a Menagerie of Camels and Other Exotic Creatures
United Kingdom: Ireland The Break; England The Moonstone; Scotland Edinburgh Twilight & Wales The Case of the Dotty Dowager
Yemen: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Zimbabwe: Into the Water
I took some of the books from my ever-growing want to read to list. Some of the books its the author from the country but I also want to try and read books that are set in that country too so I will probably end up reading more than one book for a lot of the countries as I also want to do some reading on some of the countries histories!