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Good luck with your trip! You've got some great authors on your list that I've been wanting to read.
Thanks Connie for your good wishes...
Seems from looking @ your books that we may have similar interests in books ???....
Seems from looking @ your books that we may have similar interests in books ???....
You do have some great books and authors on your list! Here is an easier way for you to add your book links:Right above the comment box is a link that says "add book/author:. Click on the link and a search box will appear. You can locate your books and/or author in that search box by entering the title and clicking on the "search" button. When you find the book you are looking for, just click the "add" button, and the book or author link will become embedded in your comment.
Diane wrote: "You do have some great books and authors on your list! Here is an easier way for you to add your book links:
Right above the comment box is a link that says "add book/author:. Click on the link ..."
Thanks for the tip - will have ago when next book added...
Right above the comment box is a link that says "add book/author:. Click on the link ..."
Thanks for the tip - will have ago when next book added...
A book I missed but have read since October is All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy.
Some of it was set in the USA (I already have that country listed) but a large amount was set in Mexico so will add Mexico to my travelled countries..
All the Pretty Horses
Some of it was set in the USA (I already have that country listed) but a large amount was set in Mexico so will add Mexico to my travelled countries..
All the Pretty Horses
Have just finished visiting with Miss Brodie & 'her girls' in Edinburgh, Scotland....
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
From a Sealed Room
Have made a trip to Israel which mainly took place in the 1970's. - bit of time travel is always interesting.
Have made a trip to Israel which mainly took place in the 1970's. - bit of time travel is always interesting.
Oh what delicious fun I have just had with M. Michel and the tenants of the fashionable apartment building that she is concierge of in Paris...
A highly recommendable book..The Elegance of the HedgehogMuriel Barbery
A highly recommendable book..The Elegance of the HedgehogMuriel Barbery
Veronika Decides to Die
Just took a very interesting journey into the mind of Veronika who lives in Slovenia....
was well worth the read...
Just took a very interesting journey into the mind of Veronika who lives in Slovenia....
was well worth the read...
Off to China to visit with Snow Flower... this was a great read - one that kept me enthralled from beginning to end...Lisa SeeSnow Flower and the Secret Fan
oppem wrote: "Off to China to visit with Snow Flower... this was a great read - one that kept me enthralled from beginning to end...Lisa SeeSnow Flower and the Secret Fan"Snow Flower is one of my all-time favorite books!
Have to agree that Snow Flower will probably prove to be one of my favourite books.
I had read Shanghai Girls recently (only book read by Lisa See) and found it to be only so,so / mediocre / a interesting read but nothing special..
Was I surprised when read Snow Flower - I found it hard to believe that it was written by the same author... I will have to read more of hers now & hope they are more like Snow F. than Shanghai G. !!
I had read Shanghai Girls recently (only book read by Lisa See) and found it to be only so,so / mediocre / a interesting read but nothing special..
Was I surprised when read Snow Flower - I found it hard to believe that it was written by the same author... I will have to read more of hers now & hope they are more like Snow F. than Shanghai G. !!
oppem wrote: "Have to agree that Snow Flower will probably prove to be one of my favourite books.I had read Shanghai Girls recently (only book read by Lisa See) and found it to be only so,so / mediocre / a int..."
I felt the same way about Shanghai Girls. I loved Peony in Love, too, but am probably in the minority since the reviews aren't great.
Visiting New Zealand.
The Colour
The Colour by Rose Tremain is a wonderful book all about early settlers & the gold rush in New Zealand... very well written & informative....
The Colour
The Colour by Rose Tremain is a wonderful book all about early settlers & the gold rush in New Zealand... very well written & informative....
Visited South Africa.
I have (with a struggle) just finished reading "Burger's Daughter" by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer.....
This is a story that needs to be told and should be told but huge chunks of it were way, way over my head...
Burger's Daughter
I have (with a struggle) just finished reading "Burger's Daughter" by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer.....
This is a story that needs to be told and should be told but huge chunks of it were way, way over my head...
Burger's Daughter
Around the World in 80 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
Burger's Daughter (other topics)Pope Joan (other topics)
Pope Joan (other topics)
The Colour (other topics)
Peony in Love (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Lisa See (other topics)Lisa See (other topics)
Muriel Barbery (other topics)
Regions covered - 6.
Countries - 20.
1. NORTH AMERICA'S -
AMERICA - "East of Eden" - John Steinbeck. (Jan.12.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44...
MEXICO - "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31...
CANADA - "Bride of New France" by Suzanne Desrochers.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98...
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2. CARIBBEAN. -
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3. SOUTH AMERICA's -
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4. EUROPE -
IRELAND - "The Mammy" by Brendan O'Carroll. (Nov.11.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98...
ENGLAND - "The Remains of the Day"-Ishiguro Kazuo. (Nov.11.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
NORWAY -"Out Stealing Horses" -Per Petterson.(Dec.11.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
SCOTLAND - "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" - Muriel Spark. (Feb.12.)http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51...
THE NETHERLANDS - "Tulip Fever" - Deborah Moggach.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...
BELGIUM - "Cheese" - Willem Elsschot...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
FRANCE - "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" - Muriel Barbery.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...
POLAND - "The Zookeeper's Wife" - Diane Ackerman.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11....
SLOVENIA - "Veronika Decides to Die" - Paulo Chelho.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
ITALY - Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27...
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5. MIDDLE EAST -
ISRAEL - "From a Sealed Room" by Rachel Kadish. (feb. 2012).
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
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6. AFRICA -
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer. (june.12.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
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7. ASAI -
INDIA - Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes. (Oct. 2011).
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
MYANMAR (Burma) -"Saving Fish from Drowning" - Amy Tan. (Nov.11).
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
TURKEY - "The White Castle" - Orhan Pamuk. (Jan.12.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29...
CHINA - "Snow Flower & the Secret Fan" - Lisa See.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
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8. AUSTRALIA / OCEANNIA -
NEW ZEALAND - "The Colour" by Rose Tremain.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
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