Around the World in 80 Books discussion

The polls are up for our February books of the month. We will be visiting Europe for our world read and New England for our US State read. Here is a shortcut to get to the polls page:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

We also need nominations for our books of the month for March. We will be visiting Africa for our world read and the state of New Mexico for our US read. Here is a shortcut to the nominations page:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

One week left for voting for February's books of the month. It i a really close race, so get your vote in if you haven't already done so!

Also, only one week left to get your nominations in for March's books!

I found a few more books set in New Mexico, for March' US state read:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

And the winners are:


The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, set in Croatia or Serbia

and

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, set in Connecticut

Oh good, I was wondering which country we were using The Tiger's Wife for, since the description just says "a Balkan country". Requesting it from the library today. It sounds very good.

i believe croatia...the author is from there, so that seems to be the general consensus on where to claim it...I haven't read it, but there might be stuff within the story that will enable to reader to identify the country...like with Bel Canto (Ann Pratchett)...its in a south american country that isn't named, but the events were based on something that happened in Peru, so that is where I claimed it

It could set in be either Serbia or Croatia. I don't think it specifically says which one, so either would probably fit.

Croatia sounds good to me, especially if that's where she's from.