Where In The World Are You? March/April 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.

Going without sleep while trying stop some bombs at the Detroit Auto Show; wake me when it's over.

I Am Pilgrim, traveling between the USA and several middle eastern countries to try and stop a terrorist act of revenge, whilst simultaneously savoring mystical, magical, mythical stories in Nigeria and uttering A Prayer For The Living.

I'm beginning with a Clean Slate in Nicaragua.

While we are in lock down and can't travel anywhere it was good to take a trip with The Travelling Cat Chronicles with Hiro Arikawa around Japan.

I'm snooping around New York with Harriet the Spy.

Heading off to Australia, just one of many among The Exiles.

When in Paris, it's hard to avoid les liaisons dangereuses; but I'll try my best.

(broke the touchstone when I edited it for spelling)

Off to China where, if I hurry, I will be able to catch The Last Boat Out Of Shanghai.

I'm scuba diving off Grenada and Mexico, admiring reef-building sculptures in The Underwater Museum.

Somewhere on this Mother Earth I am trying to become a Shaman.

I'm beachcombing in the UK and elsewhere and reading the earth's Book of Pebbles.

I plan on spending some time exploring Belgrade Noir, since I enjoy the darker side of things.

I'm rooting for The Survivors (Jane Harper) in a coastal village in Tasmania.

I'm living with three generations of women in Grenada, and each of them is an Angel in her own way.

Heading to Bogota, described .to me as Infinite Country

Just left France in Fatale: How French Women Do It.

Just put down The Book of Jakarta. I wished I could pick up some of (all) the street food mentioned.

I'm watching the old gods sleep with the fishes in Sunken Cities off the coast of Egypt.

Waiting for my lover to Meet Me in Bombay, by Jenny Ashcroft.

Wondering whether If I had your face it would make any difference, in Seoul.

Off to Ireland to enjoy the countryside and go Walking With Ghosts.

Travels with my Aunt have taken me to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and down the river into Paraguay.

Suffering through The Four Winds in the Texas dust bowl, 1930s.

The Legacy draws me to Iceland!

Now departing Serbia after an exploration of Belgrade Noir, and pulling out maps of London in the 60's to locate Utopia Avenue.

I have been sailing through the Persian Gulf in search of The Corsair and his Wahhabi allies.

heading to Argentina where I hope to become familiar with the roles and responsibilities of The Clerk.

Now off to Massachusetts, where I hope to understand what connects Boy, Snow, Bird.

On my way to Ireland to study The Art of Falling.

Now down to England where I was surprised to learn that Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.

Off to Argentina, dreading the moment he says, "Die, My Love".

I'm remembering how much I liked this book the first time...and indeed, the whole Port William Kentucky cycle.

I've been to Greenland and onto the polar ice with an Arctic Hero.

I'm travelling through Paraguay, stopping At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig.

Off to rural Sweden in Autumn to learn about daily life in the countryside.

I'm also in Sweden, in the company of Detective Inspector Huss.

Heading out to the American West, and having Train Dreams as I journey there.

Now on to Scotland where I plan on sorting out Knots and Crosses.

I'm growing up with The African Child in French Guinea.

Pretty sure if My Name is Red I've been filling out forms wrong all these years (in Istanbul).

I just left Denmark where I was hanging out with a heartbreaking father and son, who tried to tell me they were A Fairy Tale. And now I'm visiting the Housekeeper and the Professor in Japan. I hear they're lovely, but I've been warned they talk about math and baseball a lot, so I'm not sure I'll have much patience for them.

Off to England, where I will learn a difficult lesson regarding The Consequences of Fear.

I'm living in London in the early 1930s to the accompaniment of a Fanfare for Tin Trumpets.

I’m in 1860s Hokitika, New Zealand in the middle of a gold rush and a murder mystery in The Luminaries.

After sampling some unripened fruit in The Pear Field in Tbilisi this weekend I have flown to Bucharest to meet my late mother's business partner, who said to me, "If You Kept a Record of Sins you would understand why she left you as a child."

I just got back from 1992 Japan where I was visiting The Housekeeper and the Professor, and a boy named Root, and now I'm off to Sweden to meet some Anxious People.

I will be in the USA huddling with Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie.

I've just left the Pachinko parlours of Yokohama and am on the way to Bombay and The Widows of Malabar Hill.

I'm in Israeli occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank near Nablus, cocooning myself before attempting to fly with Code Name : Butterfly.

I'm in Singapore before, during, and after Independence, where we're all experiencing a State of Emergency.

In Glasgow, hopefully not on the Edge of the Grave.

I'm in 17th century London learning The Mysteries of Love & Eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches.

I'm in South-East Asia: Destination Cambodia.

I'm on a road trip to Wherever it is Summer, beginning in Germany.

It's a pleasure to head to New Jersey and join the Tricky Twenty-Two antics of Stephanie Plum!

I spent Saturday in the trenches of the French Army during World War I, where At Night All Blood Is Black, traveled back in time on Sunday to Germany in 1525 to fight in The War of the Poor, the German Peasants' War, and I'm now in contemporary Angola, where I hope to join The Society of Reluctant Dreamers.

I'm in Barbados, finding out How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House.

Off to Scotland for a playfully mysterious game of Hide and Seek.

I'm running free on the island of Corfu, observing and studying My Family and Other Animals.

Beginning in Palestine, then by camel across North Africa, by boat to Italy and India, and along the Arabian Peninsula, I have been on Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands.

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

Off to India where I hope to avoid A Burning!

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