Where In The World Are You? May/June 2021

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

Example: I am in Glasgow, Scotland becoming familiar with life in the tenements by getting to know Shuggie Bain.

I'm fighting for The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia in France and New Caledonia.

Still in Corfu, collecting Birds, Beasts, and Relatives.

I was in England in 1895 reciting badly written Liberty Lyrics with "All the Best Writers and Thinkers in the Socialist Movement".

I'm in the US researching The Dark Matter of Mona Starr.

I'm in Paris sleeping through The Dream Years of surrealism.

The job of a coroner in Los Angeles inevitably involves A Measure of Darkness.

I'm reading the romantic comedy Pride and Prejudice with Unmarriageable sisters in a town in Pakistan.

In small-town Turkey, waiting for the Snapping Point.

I'm in East Timor / Timor Leste, during the Indonesian military occupation, observing Jazz, Perfume & the Incident.

I'm in Jamaica in a drought, so I and I nuh singing Here Comes the Sun.

I'm in France and my head is being haunted by a Mouton.

I'm in the US and Panama with Two Serious Ladies.

I'm in Aotearoa watching the Potiki grow up.

I am heading to Russia with some trepidation, arriving at Midnight In Chernobyl.

Breathless with awe and exhaustion, I'm pursuing Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods from Greece and Egypt all the way to India, and back.

I'm slowly desiccating in a Venezuelan drought with the Keepers of the House.

I'm in 1960s/70s Norway with a scandi lgbt classic doing What Comes Naturally.

I'm suffering along with everyone in India right now but at least I can find comfort in Chandrabati's Ramayan.

It's the Jazz Age and I am off to the Cote d'Azur in search of some of the elusive Riviera Gold.

I'm in London, England, and an island near Koh Samui, Thailand, participating in The Authenticity Project.

I'm in the Pale of Settlement (Russia) on the trail of The Slaughterman's Daughter.

I'm not really sure but I know I definitely don't want to be anywhere near the setting of my Eleven Sooty Dreams.

I’m about to invade Sicily in The Day of Battle.

I'm taking my time following Momo through various fantastical worlds using Aetheric Mechanics.

I'm in Nepal, coming down out of the Mountains Painted with Tumeric into the lowlands of Mugalan (India, land of the Mughals) after being shunned and shamed by the village.

No touchstone? Maybe too obscure even though published by Columbia University Press in 2008? This is the novel by Lil Bahadur Chettri translated from the Nepali by Michael J. Hutt

I am luxuriating in Catalonia in a Garden By The Sea.

I will be in Palo Alto, California for a while, considering A Matter Of Death And Life.

Now, with a certain trepidation, I am heading to Desperation, Nevada. Wish me luck!

I'm back in a small but growing English town playing several Return Matches.

Growing up with the Dark Child in Guinea and learning some amazing things about the Melinké.

I'm in one of the Gulf states: Qatar or the UAE? Let's call it Barqais. I'm doing business with A Woman of Five Seasons.

I'm travelling from Togo, across Africa and Europe, to meet An African in Greenland.

Heading to England to meet The Good Soldier, facetiously named by those who knew him.

I'm in Algiers, hoping Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us.

I'm on a Mission to Kala in Cameroon with a young failed scholar in search of someone else's runaway wife.

I will remain in England for A Dance To The Music Of Time, 3rd Movement.

Now heading to New York and France with Vivian and her camera (via Denmark, given the original language of the novel).

Joining in the community activities in a dying fishing village, Big Running, Newfoundland which includes the singing of Our Homesick Songs.

I'm watching two USian scholars in London conducting their Foreign Affairs.

And yet another journey to post-WWII London, where I seek wisdom from A Word Child.

I am working my way through Ming Dynasty, China, exploring the architectural marvels built by the Emperor.

I'm wandering through England, Ireland, Nigeria, and Benin, wondering what The Actual?

I'm in England with Mary Talbot, and France with Lucia Joyce, where each girl is the Dotter of her Father's Eyes.

In Russia, reading the odd surviving texts of the Soviet Union by the light of Molotov's Magic Lantern.

I have been in Samarkand with Omar Khayyam, and Iran with his followers.

I'm in the bougie city of Angoulême suffering through the Lost Illusions of this human comedy we live in.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, those six months at the Versailles Peace Conference held in Paris 1919.

Starting a new journey through time in a dungeon in Ghana, dreaming of Homegoing.

I've been travelling through British history from 1950 to 2019 with a cohort of lesbians in Sensible Footwear.

Happy pride month to anyone celebrating!

>51 spiralsheep: LOL

I was just in Penang, Malaysia, reading about the ghost/god they call the Black Water Sister.

In the early 20th century British Isles, I'm making history with Women's Social and Political Union member Sally Heathcote: Suffragette.

I'm in an abandoned game reserve in Mozambique with a young boy, who is mesmerized by The Tuner of Silences.

>53 spiralsheep: I liked that one.

I'm in New Orleans, wondering why anyone would want to be Out of the Easy. (I'd be on a plane to NOLA tomorrow, given half a chance!)

Off to ride along with the Pack Horse Library in the Appalacha Kentucky with The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek.

In Ancient Rome finding out that A fatal thing happened on the way to the forum.

Off to a town in North Carolina where I hope to decide what I would do If I Had Two Wings.

I was in fantasy Cornwall in the shadow of a Steeple keeping an eyeball on the new curate at the Anglican church and her friend the trainee priestess at the Church of Satan down the road.

Now I'm at Radcliff Hall School for Girls on the south coast of England where I fear someone has Poison for Teacher....

I'm in Hungary and not at all sure I want to know what's behind the Door.

Off to the French countryside to solve crime with Bruno, Chief of Police.

I'm in China, on the edge of the Gobi desert, admiring the Distant Sunflower Fields.

I am leaving Mexico City, where I was looking for a Signal to Noise, and am traveling to Argentina (don't know which city yet) to meet the Eartheater.

I'm in Germany and Fantastica participating in a reading of The Neverending Story.

Off to a future dystopia plains region where I will observe the relationship between Klara and The Sun.

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