Where In The World Are You? July/August 2022

Thought I would carry on in hemlokgang's tradition:

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.

Who would have thought I would meet two Guatemalan brothers at a Monastery in Israel?

Instead of a leisurely cruise on the Nile to see the River of the Gods, I ended up on a dangerous and exhausting trek in East Africa led by a couple of crazy tour guides. I’m firing my travel agent!

I'm in China Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather.

I'm in Bombay mourning The Dog of Tithwal...

Thank you for keeping the tradition going labfs39!!!

Arguably, I could have chosen another book, but here I am...

Did you know? Trevor Noah was Born a Crime in South Africa because of his mixed-race parentage.

I've been hiking from the lowest point of Death Valley to the top of Mt. Whitney, Salt to Summit.

Pour me a cup of coffee and I'll tell you some Berlin Stories.

I'm hanging with the geishas at the hot springs in Japan's Snow Country.

I'm Nightcrawling with Kiara in Oakland, as she tries to makes enough money to keep her and her older brother from being evicted from their apartment.

As a Swiss, I am reading a book in Spain which tells of the childhood of an American girl whose mother is German and whose father is Chinese who was born in Panama and raised in Panama and China. The book is written by an author with a Spanish name in American English. I read it in the German translation.
Sigrid Nunez, Eine Feder auf dem Atem Gottes

>13 birder4106: LOL. That's quite the global mashup!

Have you seen The Crazy Iris that bloomed out of season after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima?

I'm on The Fell in the North of England with Rob and other rescuers, as Kate has fallen down while taking a walk that she oughtn't have during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now she can't get back up. Naughty Kate!

A Riot of Goldfish in Japan has me wondering if it is safe to go in the water.

I'm travelling with Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki during His Years of Pilgrimage. We've started in Japan, but I hear Finland is in our future.

I've decided to stay in Japan and revel in The Easy Life in Kamusari.

I'm 29,000 feet in the air — but falling rapidly from a jumbo jet that has just exploded — above England with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, wondering when The Satanic Verses will be uttered, and by whom.