Anna’s Comments (group member since Feb 15, 2016)

Anna’s comments from the Shared Shelf group.

Eight countries pinned so far including this month! Well done us! We could do to branch out into more of Africa, Asia, Australasia, South America and Canada.

Please feel free to post any thoughts on Franz Kafka's The Castle here.

Background info on the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_K...

and on the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cas...

A surreal, impressive (and long) trailer for an interesting-looking stage adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzjsy...

What comes up when you type "What would Kafka have eaten?" into Google - just to compare to our tapas!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka%2...

A bit about the real Yun Dong-ju (Hiranuma): http://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/People... - apparently he's had a musical written about him too.

A few of his poems: https://jaypsong.wordpress.com/catego...

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

And Amanda's shoutout - Reddit's 'Suggest Me a Book' thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook

Jen Campbell's Reading Diversely booktube tag video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWu1...

The Baileys Prize 2016 longlist, which apparently includes lots of non-UK/US titles: http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.u...

Hi all,

Please feel free to post here with comments, thoughts, context, tangents inspired by our March read.

The books I've added to our 'To-read' shelf are just suggestions. Please feel free to add your suggestions in this discussion!

So, here is the TED talk that got me interested in 'reading around the world', by Ann Morgan, who spent one year reading a book from each country in the world as listed by the United Nations: https://www.ted.com/talks/ann_morgan_...

And here is the list of countries (and books) she read: http://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/the...

Food for thought! Get gathering your ideas for what you'd like to read with the group.

Add 'Ambiente Shared Shelf' to your 'My Maps' on Google and start pinning the hometowns of authors you are reading! Let's put a flag in it!

Here's the map (let me know if the link works): https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?hl...