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[close] Most Frequently Asked Question: How do you hide spoilers? Answer: you do your spoiler here . It's called a spoiler tag. The Land of Stories Group is for people who are fans of Chris Colfer's the Land of Stories series. You can create a character of your own, have your character explore the Land of Stories, talk to other members of the group, share your thoughts and ideas for the Land of Stories, and much more! You can even post your Land of Stories fanfiction. Join the fun! New and not so new exciting features: Fanfiction | Roleplay | News

[close] Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or exploring the world through books, you have come to the right place! ATW80 began in 2009 as a challenge on TNBBC. The separate group was established in 2011. Anyone can join and participate in the challenges or readings at any time. Challenge participation is not a requirement of joining. Anyone who loves reading books from around the world is welcome here. The main purpose of this group is to travel the world through books, experiencing new authors and cultures along the way. Want to read about the world? We have close to 50,000 books cataloged by setting and more are added each week. I personally started reading around the world in 2008. This venture has introduced me to far off lands, fresh viewpoints, and many new authors I might not have discovered otherwise. Here is a record of my travels since 2009: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18478768-diane-s-world-travels-by-book I have worked very hard gathering resources for others to use and coming up with new activities. Please ask permission before copying and please give appropriate credit. The copycatting is getting ridiculous and tiresome. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Suess “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.” ― Irwin Shaw Globe Stand Photo: Daniel Loiselle/Getty Images

[close] We read books about the lives and experiences of women around the world. This group has virtual discussions on Zoom and in a private Facebook group.

[close] Dear readers, Recently, I saw an inspiring speech of the incredible Ann Morgan, a freelancer writer and editor from London, who accepted the challenge in 2012 of reading a book from every single country in the world. Why? Because she realized that she never really had read any books from any country than Britain and America she decided to stuff her discovered cultural “blindspot“. So, she spent 12 months exploring stories from other countries. Inspired by her brilliant idea, I decided to start a similar project. The idea is to read a book from every country in the world, but without any limit of time. I'll select any kind of books, from novels, fiction and crimes up to thrillers and sagas, some of them will be chosen from Morgan's suggestions. Mainly, my intention is getting to know a little better the world which for me is full of undiscovered knowledge. Now that I'm not able to travel all the year around, I can at least learn about other places by reading other people's stories. Books have an extraordinary power to take you out of yourself and into someone else way of thinking, you can look at the world through different eyes, with different values, cultures, diversity, complexity. Books have the power to connect people around the world, people with diverse religion, culture, mindset and composures. If anyone wants to join this project, you're welcome to dive with me into other worlds and discuss about chosen books and their contents. Everybody is welcome, I would be honoured! I'm so exited to start this project, I'm sure there are amazing stories out there!