Where In The World Are You? May/June 2020

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Where In The World Are You? May/June 2020

1hemlokgang
Mai 2, 2020, 3:40 pm

Have some fun writing a creative sentence, working in the title and geographic setting of your current read.

Example: It was a bit shocking when a friend said to me, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, so I am off to Los Angeles to do just that!

2jveezer
Mai 2, 2020, 11:17 pm

I'm a fly on the wall in a barn loft listening to Women Talking about their oppression and abuse in the Mennonite Manitoba Colony in Bolivia.

3Selliers
Mai 3, 2020, 12:32 pm

I'm all over the world following The Night Circus.

4hemlokgang
Mai 4, 2020, 9:27 am

It is The End of October, and I am sitting in an international conference on pandemics. (Timely)

5nrmay
Mai 4, 2020, 1:59 pm

Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away by L.A. Meyer

I'm with Jacky on the road to Madrid. We've been spying on the French for British Intelligence in the Peninsula War.

6hemlokgang
Modifié : Mai 9, 2020, 6:18 pm

Off to Paris where I nervously anticipate meeting The Perfect Nanny.

7nrmay
Mai 15, 2020, 12:48 pm

In Dublin seeking answers
about the body in the Wych Elm
by Tana French.

8hemlokgang
Modifié : Mai 21, 2020, 4:49 pm

I am splitting between two time periods in England and hoping my meeting with Frankissstein goes well.

9mnleona
Modifié : Mai 22, 2020, 6:01 pm

A visit to the Pyramids in Egypt and a side track to other historical places with Last Secret Chamber by Phil Philips.
and A Tale of Two Cities in London and Paris that is taking me back in time and history.
I finished Last Secret Chamber a few minutes ago.

10hemlokgang
Mai 22, 2020, 4:08 pm

>mnleona Try fitting those titles into creative sentences without naming authors. Check out some of the examples above.

11mnleona
Modifié : Mai 22, 2020, 5:59 pm

>10 hemlokgang: OK.
I went back to edit.
Leona

12jveezer
Mai 23, 2020, 12:32 am

Back in China for the Climax of the Chin P'ing Mei, stocking up on colorful ways to talk about sex.

13hemlokgang
Modifié : Mai 24, 2020, 2:39 am

Strolling through a city in Denmark looking forward to purchasing a warm snack from The Chestnut Man.

14nrmay
Mai 24, 2020, 11:50 pm

In Yorkshire, England with Inspector Linley seeking a great delivery.

15Selliers
Mai 25, 2020, 2:39 am

Mostly in Portland, Oregon, finding out why Ursula K. LeGuin had No Time to Spare.

16kidzdoc
Mai 25, 2020, 5:04 pm

I'm currently accompanying José Saramago on a very unconventional Journey to Portugal.

17nrmay
Mai 27, 2020, 1:19 pm

In the Italian Alps waiting to meet the shoemaker's wife.

18Selliers
Mai 27, 2020, 2:06 pm

With a gun in my handbag, I'm living Up at the Villa in Florence, Italy.

19overlycriticalelisa
Mai 27, 2020, 2:09 pm

just landing in the uk, but as i've only just started, i'm not sure why i'm there yet...

20hemlokgang
Mai 27, 2020, 8:27 pm

Learning about love, life and death in a two era tale of Frankissstein.

21hemlokgang
Modifié : Mai 29, 2020, 10:40 am

Now on to India and hope for Amnesty for all misdeeds!

22hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 2, 2020, 2:56 pm

So excited about traveling to Sierra Leone to attend the long awaited, much anticipated reunion of the Little Family.

23hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 4, 2020, 2:34 am

Hiking in the Tyrols of Austria while learning about The Jump Artist.

24hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 7, 2020, 8:37 pm

Off to Mexico in hopes of hearing The Murmur Of Bees and understanding them!

25EMS_24
Modifié : Juin 10, 2020, 7:25 am

Revisiting Vienna comparing this city in The World according to Garp to my last visit there by the view of The Tobacconist; coincidentally my latest read book

26Selliers
Juin 9, 2020, 9:13 pm

Back in London again, I'm lurking around an apartment building, avid to see how Miss Silver Deals with Death.

27jveezer
Juin 10, 2020, 1:21 pm

In Blackstable (Whitstable), Kent, learning the many forms Of Human Bondage

28hemlokgang
Juin 10, 2020, 7:05 pm

Off to Pennsylvania, in hopes of unraveling the mysteries of Catherine House.

29hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 11, 2020, 12:59 am

I believe Our Lady of The Nile can be found in Rwanda.

30hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 14, 2020, 9:32 pm

I decided to take a unique tour, in Tokyo, of The Territory Of Light.

31overlycriticalelisa
Juin 14, 2020, 11:26 pm

leaving brighton for a funeral, after the death of mrs westaway

32hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 19, 2020, 3:31 pm

Heading to Ethiopia and a journey to meet The Shadow King.

33AnnieMod
Juin 19, 2020, 3:44 pm

After spending some time in the mid and late 1930s (and a bit in the mid 70s) in Ethiopia with Maaza Mengiste's The Shadow King, I am off to the prairies of Canada in the late 1920 and 1930s to sit for a bit Alone in the Classroom and catch my breath.

34jveezer
Juin 19, 2020, 4:30 pm

Just left a place that might be a future Nigeria to travel the stars with Binti.

35mnleona
Modifié : Juin 19, 2020, 5:32 pm

I am in Lake Eden Minnesota trying to find what made Lonnie so dizzy in Coconut Cake Murder

36kidzdoc
Juin 20, 2020, 9:58 am

I've observed The First Wife's reclamation of her husband from his former lovers in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, and I'm now on the campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, studying alongside the Invisible Man.

37hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 27, 2020, 9:44 pm

I took a blow to my solar Plexus in New York City, So will head to London for a rest and a visit to my friends, Ellie and The Harpmaker.

38jveezer
Juin 27, 2020, 11:58 pm

I'm in the small Caspian seaside town of Chamkhaleh, living inside the narrators adolescent brain as he turns My Part of Her into revolutionary tradgedy.

39Selliers
Juin 28, 2020, 6:24 pm

The Bonjour Effect did nothing for me in France, so I'm going back to England to search for The Key.

40overlycriticalelisa
Juin 29, 2020, 1:09 pm

i'm in deep space after earth has been demolished, and with the help of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy maybe i'll learn best practices to be picked up by a passing space ship.

41hemlokgang
Modifié : Juin 30, 2020, 3:56 pm

Visiting the USA to spend time with a relative who tells great family stories, and is known to all of us as Memory Man.

42hemlokgang
Juin 30, 2020, 3:59 pm