Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Sorry I am so late in getting this out...

Post your nominations here for the June group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading books set in the country of Uganda, the US state of Maryland, and the UK county of Sussex. Here are our group lists to get you started:

Uganda:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Maryland:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Sussex:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... (please scroll down to the Sussex heading)

Books do not need to be present on these lists to be nominated. Authors, please do not nominate your own books.

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Uganda -
Maryland -

UGANDA: I added this book to the first Uganda link:
The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda by Thor Hanson. I nominate this in honor of Dian Fossey. The Amazon blurb says: "Dr. Thor Hanson is a conservation biologist, Switzer Environmental Fellow, and member of the Human Ecosystems Study Group....His first book, The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda, won the 2008 USA Book News Award for nature writing."

MARYLAND: Timbuktu by Paul Auster. Just 181 pages. The goodreads blurb says: "Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction."

SUSSEX: This book isn't on the list; I'm not sure how to add it.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. "Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm—Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers—feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father. As is typical in a certain genre of romantic 19th-century and early 20th-century literature, each of the farm's inhabitants has some long-festering emotional problem caused by ignorance, hatred, or fear, and the farm is badly run. Flora, being a level-headed, urban woman, determines that she must apply modern common sense to their problems and help them adapt to the 20th century."

For Uganda Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol

I would also like to read Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol for Uganda.

For Maryland, I would like to nominate Kindred.

For Maryland I would like to nominate:



Song Yet Sung by James McBride

In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and armed with �the Code,” a fiercely guarded cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. Liz’s flight and her dreams of tomorrow will thrust all those near her toward a mysterious, redemptive fate.
Filled with rich, true details—much of the story is drawn from historical events—and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness.

I too would like to read Thirty Girls for Uganda

Uganda: The Last King of Scotland

Maryland: Timbuktu

Sussex: The Collector

Maryland: A Mercy

Sussex: Brighton Rock

Oh I want Cold Comfort Farm too.

Last call for nominations...

I would like to nominate The Invisible Man for Sussex.