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Q2 - Globetrotter
PLACES WE VISITEDBelow, I'll be listing countries featured in books that challengers list in their posts in this thread.
Gee, I wish we could have a world map with push pins...but we can't.
NOTES:
*I've observed chan's suggestion to employ the UN geoscheme for categorization.
*The UK's member countries will be separately listed.
AFRICA:: 24/57
📗Northern Africa: 7/7
✔️Algeria: Carmen
✔️Egypt: Catka
✔️Libya: Catka
✔️Morocco: oshizu, Kelly
✔️Sudan: Carmen
✔️Tunisia: Carmen
✔️Western Sahara: Carmen
Central Africa: 5/8
Angola
✔️Cameroon: Carmen
✔️Central African Republic: Carmen
✔️Chad: Carmen
✔️Equatorial Guinea: Carmen
Gabon
✔️Republic of Congo: Catka
São Tomé and Príncipe
East Africa: 12/20
✔️Burundi: Margie
Comoros
Djibouti
Eritrea
✔️Ethiopia: Carmen
✔️Kenya: Carmen
Madagascar
✔️Malawi: Carmen
✔️Mauritius: Carmen
Mayotte
✔️Mozambique: Carmen
Réunion
✔️Rwanda: Diane
Seychelles
✔️Somalia: Carmen
✔️South Sudan: Carmen
✔️Tanzania: Catka
Uganda
✔️Zambia: Carmen
✔️Zimbabwe: Kiwi Begs2Differ
West Africa: 9/17
✔️Benin: Carmen
✔️Burkina Faso: Margie
Cabo Verde
✔️Côte d'Ivoire: Carmen, Susan
Gambia
✔️Ghana: Lindsay, Megan #24
✔️Guinea: Susan
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
✔️Nigeria: Catka, Carmen
✔️ Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: Carmen
✔️Senegal: oshizu, Carmen, Kristin
Sierra Leone
✔️Togo: Catka
Southern Africa: 1/5
Botswana
Eswatini (Swaziland)
Lesotho
Namibia
✔️South Africa: Carmen, Margie
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AMERICAS: 37/56
Caribbean: 15/29
Anguilla
✔️Antigua and Barbuda: Carmen
✔️Aruba: Carmen
✔️Bahamas: Carmen
✔️Barbados: Carmen
✔️Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba: Carmen
✔️Virgin Islands (UK): Carmen
✔️Cayman Islands: Carmen
✔️Cuba: Kiwi Begs2Differ
✔️Curaçao: Carmen
✔️Dominica: Carmen
Dominican Republic
✔️Grenada: Carmen
Guadeloupe
Haiti
✔️Jamaica: Carmen
Martinique
Montserrat
✔️Puerto Rico: Carmen
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin (French part)
✔️Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Carmen
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
✔️Trinidad and Tobago: Carmen
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgin Islands (US):
📗Central America: 8/8
✔️Belize: Carmen
✔️Costa Rica: Carmen
✔️El Salvador: Carmen
✔️Guatemala: Carmen, Nikki
✔️Honduras: Carmen
✔️Mexico: Carmen
✔️Nicaragua: Carmen
✔️Panama: Carmen
📗North America: 4/4
✔️Bermuda: Carmen
✔️Canada: oshizu, Kelly, chan, Carmen, Megan 24
✔️Greenland: Carmen
✔️USA: Kiwi Begs2Differ, Kristin, Carmen, Janine, Megan #24, Nikki, Ran, Jess, Catka, Amy, Mie, Kelly, oshizu, Suzanne, Steph, Margie, chan, SarahKat, Lindsay, Amanda, James
South America: 10/15
✔️Argentina: Kristin
✔️Bolivia: Carmen
✔️Brazil: oshizu
✔️Chile: Carmen
✔️Colombia: Margie, Carmen
✔️Ecuador: Carmen
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
✔️Guyana: Susan
✔️Paraguay: Carmen
✔️Peru: Carmen
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
Suriname
Uruguay
✔️Venezuela: Carmen
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ASIA: 43/49
📗Central Asia: 5/5
✔️Kazakhstan: Kiwi Begs2Differ
✔️Kyrgyzstan: oshizu
✔️Tajikistan: Carmen
✔️Turkmenistan: Margie
✔️Uzbekistan: Carmen
📗East Asia: 5/5
✔️China (incl. Hong Kong and Macau): Carmen, Catka, oshizu, Carmen, Margie
✔️Japan: Carmen, Mie, Nikki, Kiwi Begs2Differ, oshizu, Megan #24, chan, Margie
✔️Mongolia: Kiwi Begs2Differ
✔️North Korea: Diane
✔️South Korea: Kristin, Amy, Ran, Steph, Margie, oshizu
Southeast Asia: 11/12
✔️Brunei Darussalam: Carmen
✔️Cambodia: oshizu
✔️Indonesia: Amy, Nikki
✔️Laos: Megan #23, Susan
✔️Malaysia: oshizu, Steph, Catka
✔️Myanmar (formerly Burma): Amy, Susan
✔️Philippines: Catka, Margie
✔️Singapore: oshizu, Janine, Margie
✔️Taiwan (ROC): oshizu
✔️Thailand: Margie, Megan #24, Kristin
❗️Timor-Leste
✔️Vietnam: oshizu, Susan, Margie, Kristin
📗South Asia: 9/9
✔️Afghanistan: Mie, Catka, oshizu, Janine, Megan 24
✔️Bangladesh: Susan
✔️Bhutan: oshizu
✔️India: Margie, chan
✔️Iran: Margie
✔️Maldives: Carmen
✔️Nepal: oshizu, Carmen
✔️Pakistan: oshizu, Diane
✔️Sri Lanka: Margie, Carmen
West Asia: 13/18
Armenia
✔️Azerbaijan: Carmen
Bahrain
✔️Cyprus: Carmen
✔️Georgia: Catka
✔️Iraq: Carmen
✔️Israel: Kiwi Begs2Differ
✔️Jordan: Carmen
✔️Kuwait: Margie
✔️Lebanon: Susan
✔️Oman: Carmen
Qatar
✔️Saudi Arabia: Margie
✔️State of Palestine: Diane, Carmen
Syria
✔️Turkey: Carmen, Kiwi Begs2Differ
United Arab Emirates
✔️Yemen: Carmen
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EUROPE: 42/48
📗Eastern Europe: 10/10
✔️Belarus: Catka
✔️Bulgaria: Carmen
✔️Czechia (Czech Republic): Catka
✔️Hungary: Carmen
✔️Moldova: Catka
✔️Poland: Kristin, Carmen, Cassie
✔️Romania: Nikki, Carmen
✔️Russia: Margie, Jess, Kiwi Begs2Differ, Margie, oshizu
✔️Slovakia: Catka
✔️Ukraine: Catka
📗Northern Europe: 13/13
✔️Denmark: Carmen, Amanda, Margie
✔️England (UK): Mie, Carmen, Kristin, Cassie, Catka, Jess, Kiwi Begs2Differ, oshizu, Lindsay, Margie, Kelly, Katherine, Cyystal
✔️Estonia: Elina
✔️Finland: Carmen
✔️Iceland: Catka, Amy, Carmen
✔️Ireland: Carmen, Amy, Cassie, Megan #24, Catka
✔️Latvia: Carmen
✔️Lithuania: Carmen
✔️N. Ireland (UK): Catka, Carmen, Amanda
✔️Norway: Carmen
✔️Scotland (UK): Catka, Kiwi Begs2Differ, Amy, Carmen, SarahKat, Margie, Nikki, Catka
✔️Sweden: Carmen, Nikki, SarahKat, Amanda, Lindsay, Crystal
✔️Wales (UK): Kiwi Begs2Differ, Carmen
Southern Europe: 10/16
✔️Albania: Carmen
Andorra
✔️Bosnia and Herzegovina: Carmen
✔️Croatia: Megan #24
Gibraltar
✔️Greece: Carmen
✔️Italy: Mie, oshizu, Carmen, Janine, Kiwi Begs2Differ, Ran, Amy
Malta
✔️Montenegro: Carmen
✔️North Macedonia: Carmen
✔️Portugal: Carmen, Megan #24
San Marino
Serbia
✔️Slovenia: oshizu
✔️Spain: Jamie, Carmen, oshizu
Vatican City
📗Western Europe: 9/9
✔️Austria: Kiwi Begs2Differ, Carmen
✔️Belgium: Carmen, Amanda
✔️France: Jamie, Carmen, Kelly, Mie, Jessica, Steph, Kiwi Begs2Differ, Lindsay, Crystal, Margie, Amanda, Katherine, Kristin
✔️Germany: Carmen, Elina, Amanda, Megan, James
✔️ Liechtenstein: Kiwi Begs2Differ
✔️Luxembourg: Margie, Carmen
✔️Monaco: Carmen
✔️Netherlands: Amy, Carmen
✔️Switzerland: Catka, Carmen
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OCEANIA & ANTARCTICA: 8/28
✔️Antarctica (1/1): Carmen, SarahKat
Australia & New Zealand: 2/6
✔️Australia: Maris, Mie, Amy, Kiwi Begs2Differ, Janine, Mie, Margie
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Heard Island & McDonald Islands
✔️New Zealand: Kiwi Begs2Differ
Norfolk Island
Melanesia: 2/5
Fiji
New Caledonia (France)
✔️Papua New Guinea: Kiwi Begs2Differ
Solomon Islands
✔️Vanuatu: Carmen
Micronesia: 1/6
Guam (USA)
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
✔️Nauru: Carmen
Northern Mariana Islands (USA):
Palau
Polynesia: 2/10
American Samoa (USA)
Cook Islands (New Zealand)
French Polynesia (France)
Niue (New Zealand)
Pitcairn Islands (UK):
Samoa
Tokelau (New Zealand)
✔️Tonga: Catka
✔️Tuvalu: Carmen
Wallis and Futuna (France):
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REGIONS COMPLETED
AFRICA: N. Africa (7)
ASIA: E. Asia (5), S. Asia (9), Central Asia (5)
EUROPE: W. Europe: (9), E. Europe (10), N. Europe (13)
AMERICAS: C. America (8), N. America (4),
I'm signing up for Progress: 36/30 books (21/21 tasks)
📗1. Wanderlust: ✔️A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Cambodia)
📗2. Diaspora: ✔️Facing the Bridge (Canary Islands, Spain)
📗3. Exophony: ✔️The Patience Stone (Afghanistan), ✔️Before She Sleeps (Pakistan)
📗4. Interracial relations. ✔️The Merchant of Venice (Italy)
📗5. Walk in Another's Shoes: ✔️Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (US)
📗6. Global Capitalism: ✔️Chinglish (D.H. Hwang)
📗7. Other Worlds in Other Words:
✔️One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russia)
✔️Veronika Decides to Die (Slovenia)
📗8. Fictionalized History: ✔️Tangerine (Morocco)
📗9. Borderlines: ✔️An Unkindness of Ghosts (race/gender)
📗10. Flaneuse: ✔️The Briefcase (Japan)
📗11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: ✔️All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
📗12. Transcontinental Cruising:
✔️M. Butterfly (China & France)
✔️VietnamEazy: A Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Food (Vietnam, France, US)
📗13. Multi-linguist: ✔️Soy Sauce for Beginners (Singapore), ✔️book:Grave Peril|91476]
📗14. World Traveler: ✔️The Quiet American (Vietnam)
✔️Folktales Of Bhutan, ✔️Sold (Nepal)
📗15. Global Reader:
✔️A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Malaysia
✔️The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (England)
📗16. Home Away From Home: ✔️1Q84, book 1, April-June (Japan)
✔️Atlantic Hotel (Brazil), ✔️Xala (Senegal), ✔️1Q84, #2 (Japan)
📗17. Minority Voices: ✔️A Raisin in the Sun (US),
✔️The Round House (Ojibwe, US), ✔️Go: A Coming of Age Novel (Zainichi),
✔️LaRose (Ojibwe, US)
📗18. Traversing the Terrains: ✔️The White Ship (Kyrgyzstan)
📗19. Border country #1/USA: ✔️Speak, ✔️Let's Talk About Love
📗20. Border country #2/Canada:✔️ Hag-Seed
📗21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition):
✔️The Plotters (S. Korea), ✔️Ghost Month (Taiwan)
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I’ll go for 12, please 👏👏👏 14/12 - COMPLETE ✔️
1. Travelogue - Notes from a Small Island (UK) - DNF
📗 2. Not living in homeland - Xenocide (Space)
📗 4. Interracial relations - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (New York)
📗 6. Global Capitalism - Warcross (Japan)
📗 8. Fictionalized History - The Secret Life of Bees (USA)
📗 9. Borderlines - The Rosie Effect (New York)
📗 10. Strolling - Walking Back to Happiness (UK)
📗 12. Two continents: Lie Down with Lions
📗 13. Multi-linguist - Hickory Dickory Dock (UK)
📗 14. World Traveler - Force of Nature (Australia)
📗 15. Global Reader - The Fellowship of the Ring (South Africa)
📗 16. Place visited more than once - A Killing Frost (UK)
📗 18. Different terrain than used to - The Dry (Australia)
📗 19. Border country 1 - The Reader on the 6.27 (France)
📗 20. Border country 2 - Juliet (Italy)
Hi, please put me down for three :)GLOBETROTTER
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2019
For this quarterly challenge, fill your passport by traveling around the world via the pages of your books. Tasks may be repeated but books can only be used once. Please let us know the total number of books you will read for this challenge.
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland. -
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated world of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries. -
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own. -
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
3/3 - COMPLETED!
Please put me down for 6. I will update my list as I go
11/33. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
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PROGRESS: 120/90
📗1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
✔Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
✔The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands: Oman
✔Conversations with the Cannibals: The End of the Old South Pacific: Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands
📗2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
✔Cutting for Stone India, Yemen, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, USA, England, Scotland, Italy
✔The Black Mountain USA, England, Italy, Montenegro, Albania
✔Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Ireland
📗3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
✔Lolita France, Canada, USA
✔Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Iran, USA
📗4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
✔White Teeth ENGLAND & BULGARIA
✔Beloved USA (Kentucky, Ohio, Delaware)
✔El mensaje que llegó en una botella Scotland, Denmark, Sweden
✔A Red Death USA
✔Master Harold...and the boys South Africa
✔The Cay Curaçao
✔Boy! Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon
📗5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
✔Don't Be Afraid, Gringo Honduras
✔Night Romania, Poland, Germany, France
✔The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur Sudan, Chad, Lybia, Egypt, Israel, Ghana
✔Desert Flower Somalia, England, USA, Ethiopia
📗6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
✔The Darkest Hour USA (Tennessee), Colombia, Costa Rica
✔No Place to Run Mexico, USA (Tennesse, Texas)
✔The Candidate: A Luxembourg Thriller Luxembourg
📗7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
✔La trágica historia del doctor Fausto GERMANY
✔Sadako y Las Mil Grullas de Papel HIROSHIMA (JAPAN)
✔The Man Who Went Up In Smoke Sweden, Hungary
✔The Magician of Lublin Poland
✔Aya of Yop City Côte d'Ivoire
✔Cheese Belgium, Netherlands
✔The Dogs of Riga Sweden, Latvia, Germany, Poland & Lithuania
✔Smilla's Sense of Snow Denmark & Greenland
✔La Peste Algeria
✔Secrets in the Fire Mozambique
✔Confessions of a Mask Japan
✔Batouala Central African Republic
📗8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
✔Snow Flower and the Secret Fan CHINA
✔My Name Is Red TURKEY
✔The Wine of Astonishment Trinidad and Tobago
✔Wide Sargasso Sea Jamaica, Dominica & England
✔Ali and Nino Azerbaijan, Georgia & Iran
✔Samarkand Uzbekistan, Iran, France, USA, &Turkey
📗9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
✔Shylock Is My Name (Religious boundaries) CHESIRE, MANCHESTER (ENGLAND)
✔Man Enough to be a Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County (Gender/Social boundaries) USA, ENGLAND, GERMANY
✔The Virgin Suicides (Personal boundaries) USA (Michigan)
✔The Night Circus (Fantasy-Reality boundaries) USA, England, France, Germany, Egypt, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey
📗10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
✔Open City USA (New York), Nigeria, Belgium
📗11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
✔Orphan Train IRELAND, USA (New York, Minnesotta, Maine)
📗12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
✔Watchmen NEW YORK CITY (USA), ANTARCTICA
✔Hons and Rebels ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, USA (New York, Martha's Vineyard, Wasington D.C., Florida)
✔La vuelta al mundo en 80 días England, Egypt, Yemen, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Japan, USA
✔Poirot Investigates EUROPE (England, France, Belgium) & AFRICA (Egypt)
✔Between Shades of Gray EUROPE (Lithuania, Belarus, Russia) & ASIA (Siberia)
✔Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenAMERICA (USA - Florida) & EUROPE (UK - Wales)
✔The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax AMERICA (USA, Mexico) & EUROPE (Albania)
✔Heist Society AMERICA (USA: New York, Nevada) & EUROPE (England, France, Italy, Austria, Poland)
✔Palmeras en la nieve Spain & Equatorial Guinea
✔The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch EUROPE (France, Spain, Italy, Ukraine) AMERICA (Argentina, Paraguay)
✔Anil's Ghost ASIA (Sri Lanka), EUROPE (England) & AMERICA (USA)
✔Me Before You EUROPE (England, Switzerland, France) AFRICA (Mauritius)
✔The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
AMERICA (USA, Mexico) & EUROPE (Greece)
✔Some Girls: My Life in a Harem AMERICA (USA) & ASIA (Brunei, Singapore)
📗13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
✔The Pursuit of Love (English and French) ENGLAND & FRANCE
✔Aroma de café amargo (Spanish and Nahuatl) EL SALVADOR
✔Loser Takes All (English and French) England & Monaco
✔Killer Knots (English and Yiddish) Florida, Puerto Rico, USVI (Saint Thomas), St. Maarten, Grand Cayman, Honduras (Raotan), Mexico (Cozumel)
📗14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
✔Hamlet DENMARK
✔The White Queen ENGLAND
✔The Tremor of Forgery Tunisia
✔Mia in the Maldives
✔Murder in Bermuda
✔Murder in the Bahamas
✔Murder in Jamaica
✔Murder in Barbados
✔Murder in Aruba
✔Murder in Tortola: The Scariest and Most Fun Cruise You Never Took USA (Miami), Puerto Rico and Tortola (British Virgin Islands)
✔Off the Charts Belize
✔Uncharted Guatemala, Belize
✔Entangled Panama, USA
✔Windswept Bonaire, USA
✔Adrift Grenada, Martinique
✔The Heaven Shop Malawi
✔Annie John Antigua and Barbuda
✔I Have Seen the Moon: Reflections on Nauru Nauru
✔Land Beyond the River: The Untold Story of Central Asia Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan
✔The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena St. Helena
✔Murder in Mesopotamia Iraq
✔Night Diver Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
✔Macedonia: What Does It Take to Stop a War? North Macedonia
📗15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
✔Black Coffee SURREY, LONDON (ENGLAND)
✔Lady Of Quality BATH (ENGLAND)
✔The Tea House on Mulberry Street Northern Ireland
✔The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey Nicaragua (author from India)
✔Yo Puerto Rico
✔So Long a Letter Senegal
📗16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
✔Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure VERONA (ITALY)
✔Viaje a Portugal PORTUGAL
📗17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
✔The Joy Luck Club USA & China
📗18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
✔Out of Africa Kenya
✔Cinco semanas en globo England, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Mali, Senegal
✔Burial Rites Iceland
✔Into the Wild USA, Mexico, Canada
✔Appointment with Death Israel, Jordan
✔The Viceroy of Ouidah Benin, Brazil
✔A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, USA
✔Mrs. Pollifax on Safari Zambia
✔Escape From Kathmandu: Nepal
📗19 & 📗20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
✔Rinconete y Cortadillo (Spain) ✔El Fantasma de la Opera (France), ✔El amor es un bocado de nata & (Italy)
✔Casa de muñecas (Norway) - ✔Pippi Calzaslargas (Sweden) & ✔The Year of the Hare (Finland)
✔I Am a Taxi (Bolivia) - ✔El cartero de Neruda (Chile) - ✔La tía Julia y el escribidor (Peru) - ✔Un viejo que leía novelas de amor (Ecuador)
✔Doña Bárbara (Venezuela) - ✔Cartas a mamá desde el infierno(Colombia)
📗21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
✔Dawn Palestine
✔Besos de arena Spain, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara), Algeria & Mauritania
✔Death in Cyprus Egypt & Cyprus
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
Sign me up for 2 books:Travelogue - Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Burrows
Home away from home - Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
I will go for 10!11/10-- Challenge Complete!
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.: Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home (Bangkok, Amsterdam)
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.: Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.: Hotel Silence (Icelandic)
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.: Too Much Soul: The Journey of an Asian Southern Belle (Korea)
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.; Operation Underpants (Australia and Europe)
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).: Overland: Remembering Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Canada)
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.: The Witch Elm (Ireland)
5. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Scotland)
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.: Naked in Death (New York City)
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.: Mis(h)adra
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.: Venice Black (Venice; also Croatia and Bosnia)
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
GlobetrotterQ2
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2019
For this quarterly challenge, fill your passport by traveling around the world via the pages of your books. Tasks may be repeated but books can only be used once. Please let us know the total number of books you will read for this challenge.
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
1/5/19
Sweden-Spain-USA-China-Iran-Russia-North Korea-Indonesia-France
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
23/4/19
Denmark
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
De omgekeerde piramide (The upside down pyramid) by Merho
30/4/19
Author is from Belgium.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
10/5/19
USA
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
10/6/19
Northern Ireland (and Narnia)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
19/6/19
Germany
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
4/5/19
Germany
Thérèse Desqueyroux by Francois Mauriac
15/5/19
France
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
8/8
Challenge completed
Hi Oshizu! Count me in for 5 please. Goal: 4/5
1. Rwanda The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Clemantine Wamariya
2. State of Palestine The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Sandy Tolan
3. North Korea The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
Finished as part of the Q4 "Roll the Credits" challenge:
4. Syria Escape from Aleppo, N.H. Senzai
5.
I´m joinging in for 31. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
Completed 0/3
Sign me up for 10, please! Thanks for leading this one, oshizu!1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
✔7. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (SOUTH KOREA)
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
✔17. Interment by Samira Ahmed (USA)
✔19. Mortal Republic by Edward J. Watts (ITALY)
20.
Hello, wonderful people! *wavesWelcome to the Globetrotter Challenge.
I've added everyone to the Participants list up to here.
I'm in for 10 please7/10
GLOBETROTTER
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2019
For this quarterly challenge, fill your passport by traveling around the world via the pages of your books. Tasks may be repeated but books can only be used once. Please let us know the total number of books you will read for this challenge.
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland. - Caught in Time by Julie McElwain 10/04/19 - American protagonist time travels to Georgian England
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations. - Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg 03/04/19 - USA
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett 01/06/19
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
Crooked House by Agatha Christie 26/04/19 (Africa and Europe)
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before. - Rasputin: A Short Life by Frances Welch 10/04/19 - Set in Russia
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own. By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz 06/04/19 - Author is from the US, I am from the UK
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
The Wych Elm by Tana French 24/04/19 - Ireland
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
I'm going to join this one!4/5
Tentative goal - 5 books. Will do some research and find some specific titles!
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
The Alice Network - Based largely in England and France (I lived in England and visited on two separate occasions) - FINISHED
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
One Plus One - Based in England / Scotland. Two main characters come from very different socio-economic backgrounds and end up traveling together in a car across the country.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
The Glass Ocean - takes place in North America (USA) and Europe (England, Ireland). It was also trans-time periods as well!
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
Lilac Girls - Prisoners taken from their homes (Poland) and sent to live in Ravensbruck (camp in Germany) during World War II.
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
Put me down for 6 please. I do like me some world literature.April 7 - 1/6 read
12 - Transcontinental Cruising - Asia/Europe/North America (and the novel-within-a-novel also touched in at South America and Africa)
I'm in for 21!1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue. - The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck - completed June 2019
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland. - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - completed May 2019
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language. - Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi - completed April 2019
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations. - The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Phillipe - completed May 2019
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own. - The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future by Fawzia Koofi - completed June 2019
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization. - The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley - completed May 2019
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction. - Blindness by Jose Saramago - completed April 2019
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with. - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - completed April 2019
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries. - The Cutting Season by Attica Locke - completed May 2019
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot. - When All Is Said by Anne Griffin - completed May 2019
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines. - Far from the Tree by Robin Benway - completed June 2019
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent. - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - completed June 2019
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated). - Girl at War by Sara Novic - completed April 2019
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before. - Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard - completed April 2019
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own. - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - completed June 2019
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once. - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley - completed April 2019
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside. - Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah - completed April 2019
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with. - Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - completed April 2019
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
- Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan - completed April 2019 (USA)
- All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai - completed June 2019 (Canada)
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition. - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann - completed May 2019
21/21 - challenge completed!
I would like to join please, I love traveling via books. I will try for 10, maybe will manage more.****EDIT: I am having far too much fun with this challenge to end it now, so I am increasing my goal to 21
****ONE MORE EDIT: I am again increasing my goal to 30 (this just shows my intense dislike of reading for quantity and under time pressure, but this has been real fun!)
21/21 tasks and 33/30 books
📗 1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
- New Europe by Michael Palin. Countries: Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep, Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Moldova, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram by Iain Banks. Scotland
📗 2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
- Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Iceland & an unamed war-torn country)
- Troubles by J.G. Farrell. Ireland
📗 3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language. Moruša (Mulberry Tree) by Iboja Wandall-Holm (born in Czechoslovakia, a native Slovak, now lives in Denmark and writes in Danish. I did not know about her until this challenge!). Countries: Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Denmark
📗 4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
- The Killing Room by Peter May. Country: still China, Shanghai
- Ali and Nino by Kurban Said, this was a love story not between people of different races, but religions in a place, where they meet, extremely interesting point of view. Countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran
📗 5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
- The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar. Country: Libya
- One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina. Countries: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Togo.
📗 6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
- What in God's Name by Simon Rich, featuring Heaven Inc with God as CEO (Heaven)
- I'll Keep You Safe by Peter May (Fashion industry company from Scotland serving clients all around the world)
📗 7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction. - The Fall Simon Mawer. Countries: UK (England, Wales, Scotland), Switzerland
📗 8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with. - The Watch House by Bernie Mcgill. Country: Northern Ireland
📗 9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries. - Baba Dunja's Last Love by Alina Bronsky - Baba Dunja decided to spend her last years in her native village located in a radioactive zone around a former nuclear plant. She has crossed a lot of borderlines in the book. (Ukraine, Eastern Europe)
📗 10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot. - The Places in Between by Rory Stewart. Country: Afghanistan
📗 11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman - not adoption in the original sense, but adoption of the Scottish inventions and innovations
📗 12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (even though it is an utopia, it takes place in real countries: England & New Mexico, US)
- Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz. Countries: UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia - Tahiti & Bora-Bora, Tonga, Niue
📗 13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Icludes expressions and phrases in the native Igbo language. Country: Nigeria
- The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga by Moyshe Kulbak, texts in Russian, original language Yiddish, English translation. Country: Belarus
📗 14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Country: US
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad. Afghanistan
📗 15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Countries: England, France, Italy, Egypt, Yemen, India, Singapore, China, Japan, USA, Ireland
- Waverley by Walter Scott. Scotland, England
📗 16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
- Legenda o jazyku (Legend of a tongue) by a Slovak author Pavol Rankov, takes place in the Czech Republic, Prague, where I lived for a year and always love to come back to visit
- Chasing the Dram: Finding the Spirit of Whisky by Rachel McCormack. Scotland
📗 17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
- Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou (Republic of the Congo)
- The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo. Country: Malaysia
📗 18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
- Full Circle by Michael Palin. Countries visited: USA, Russia, Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Canada
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne. Countries: Tanzania, Chad, Mali, Senegal
📗 19. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country). - Runaway by Peter May (Scotland and England, book takes us to both, but I am going to count it for Scotland, as it is a Scottish author and the characters come from there too. I will read another one from England.)
📗 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country). - The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton, takes place in England
📗 21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition. - The Firemaker by Peter May, a crime story taking place in China, Beijing, featured extremely interesting facts and tidbits about the culture and place.
Welcome to all you fellow globetrotters!(Oooh, two Megans with consecutive message numbers!)
By the way, if you're also doing the #OwnVoices challenge, this Globetrotter challenge will help to make progress with that, too!
Multitasking for the win!
I would like to try for 6 8/6
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
✅2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
The Secret of Lost Things
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
✅7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
Us Against You
✅8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
Homegoing
✅9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
Lessons I've Learned
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
✅11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
✅14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
The Circle
✅15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
Stop At Nothing
✅16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
Whispers Underground
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition
I'm in for 13 books.
1.
2. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
3.
4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
5. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
6.
7. 赤目四十八瀧心中未遂 by Chōkichi Kurumatani
8. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
9. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
10.
11.
12.
13.
14. The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
16. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
17. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
18. Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
19. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
20. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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2. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
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4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
5. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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7. 赤目四十八瀧心中未遂 by Chōkichi Kurumatani
8. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
9. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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14. The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
16. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
17. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
18. Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
19. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
20. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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2. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
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5. Kitchen Confidential's Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
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7. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
9. Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
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11. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
12. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
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14. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
15. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
16. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
17. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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I'm going to sign up for 4 books, thanks!1/4
1. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own - Lion ★★★★★
I will join in for 3 books!!2 / 3 Books Read
14. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - 4/2/19 -- set in England
15. Harmony House by Ruth Hay - 5/15/19 -- Author resides in Canada
I will join for 6, please!Progress: 4/6
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland. The Age of Light - New Yorker living in Paris
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with. Pachinko
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before. The Night Tiger - takes place in Malaysia which I have not traveled to
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once. Where the Crawdads Sing - Eastern North Carolina, USA
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
Please sign me up for 5 books. Thanks!
Globetrotter Challenge
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15.France - Article 353
15. Ireland - When All Is Said
Globetrotter Challenge
2/5
15.France - Article 353
15. Ireland - When All Is Said
Great idea for a challenge! I'll try for 15 titles, to be determined later.GLOBETROTTER - Q2 Quarterly Challenge
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2019
Progress: 15/15 -- COMPLETE
For this quarterly challenge, fill your passport by traveling around the world via the pages of your books. Tasks may be repeated but books can only be used once. Please let us know the total number of books you will read for this challenge.
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21. 🌎1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
🌎2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
🌎🌎4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
🌎7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
🌎8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
🌎9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
🌎12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent. North America and Europe
🌎13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated). English with French words and phrases
🌎14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before. England
🌎15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own. Canada
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
🌎17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
🌎18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with. Includes New York City, Vermont and a New Mexico desert
🌎19 & 🌎20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
China and North Korea
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
You evil people! I love this challenge, too! Dang it! My TBR list is already too long for a lifetime! :-D
A big warm welcome to Globetrotters to Kristin, Lindsay, Susan, Anna, Jamie, Maris, SANDYE, Steph, Tina, TerryJane, and Ketutar!😍
@Ketutar
LOL! No stress, my friend!
Check out which Globetrotters-appropriate books you'll be reading for your other challenges, then read them during April to June!
So....are you in for at least 3 books? *wicked grin with devil horns
I'll start with 5. Thanks!Goal Update 4/30/19: 15
Goal Update 5/21/19: 30 books, 21 tasks
Globetrotter Updated 6/28/19
Task Progress: 21/21
Book Progress: 41/30
√1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue. At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe Sri Lanka
√2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland. Salt Houses Kuwait
√3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language. Don’t Come Back Colombia
√4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness USA
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism USA
So You Want to Talk About Race USA
The Quiet American Vietnam
√5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own. The Complete Persepolis Iran
√6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
The Candidate: A Luxembourg Thriller Luxembourg
Triangulum South Africa
√7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
Small Country Burundi
The Keeper of Lost Causes Denmark
√8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with. American Spy Burkina Faso
√9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
Fruit of the Drunken Tree Colombia
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger USA
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia USA
√10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk USA
√11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir USA
√12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent. A Terrible Country Russia & US
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Australia
I Am Pilgrim Saudi Arabia
√13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated). The Great Passage Japan
√14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
The White Tiger India
One Good Turn Scotland
√15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
Late in the Day England
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell England
The Thirteenth Tale England
Possession England
The Black Tides of Heaven Singapore
Spring Scotland
Headlong England
√16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once. French Exit France
√17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings Philippines
Storm of Locusts USA - Native American
√18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
Terrain: Marsh Bangkok Wakes to Rain Thailand
Terrain: Mountains Disappearing Earth Russia
√19. Book 1: Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country). The Tsar of Love and Techno Russia
√20. Book 2: Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country). Do Not Say We Have Nothing China
√21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition. The Vegetarian South Korea
oshizu wrote: "PLACES WE VISITEDBelow, I'll be listing countries featured in books that challengers list in their posts in this thread.
Gee, I wish we could have a world map with push pins...but we can't.
AF..."
I love when Oshizu leads challenges 😊😁
GLOBETROTTERDuration: April 1 - June 30, 2019
I am in for 8 please!
0/8 Completed
1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.
Welcome to Margie and Octothorpe Reader leora K!@Leora
Awww, gee, that is awfully nice of you to say! 💖
Update msg 5: 3/12📗 13. Multi-linguist - Hickory Dickory Dock (UK)
📗 16. Place visited more than once - A Killing Frost (UK)
📗 20. Border country 2 - Juliet (Italy)
oshizu wrote: "PLACES WE VISITEDBelow, I'll be listing countries featured in books that challengers list in their posts in this thread.
Gee, I wish we could have a world map with push pins...but we can't.
AF..."
Hola oshizu!
Seeing this display, I've just realized that, surely, I'm going to read much more that 21 books in this challenge, because there are certain prompts that can be used with almost every book we'll read (#14 and #15, for example.)
So I think that I'm going to change my initial 21 to...90?🤔 (Message #10)
Bon voyage!!!
PROGRESS: 2/90
My first destinations: Germany and China
Set in Germany
Set in China
Just completed #14 (country never visited - Witchlands) - Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard. Wow, what a way to continue a series!!!! I'm impressed that she's bringing together so many disparate threads and weaving the stories in and out. I love the progression of the characters! My only criticism is that I'm confused about the larger narrative, but I think that's her goal for this book. Cannot wait for the next book in the series! Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars1/21
Message #10 updatedPROGRESS: 3/90
My first destinatons: Germany and China
Set in Germany
Set in ChinaNext stop: England
Set in London and Surrey
Good evening!I would like to join the challenge please!
I will be reading 3 books for this one.
Gratz on the progress, Mie, Megan, and Carmen!Carmen, 90 books!? I just checked and that's about 25% of all the books pledged for this challenge so far. I'm going to try to read books set in some of the less-read countries--maybe you could help me out a little? :D
Hola, Vale! A big warm welcome both to this group and to this Globetrotter Challenge!
Since we have a few people relatively new to this group, I thought I'd copy over from a yearly challenge some instruction on how to update your Globetrotter progress.- - - -
*Whenever you finish a book for the challenge (or simply want me to update your progress on PLACES WE VISITED), add a new post in this thread to let the challenge leader know.
---Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed every time you post an update.
*Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the Challenge Leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.
Example:
message 32 updated. 2/25 books read
Update to msg #4Task 4: Interracial relations: The Merchant of Venice (Italy)
Task 14: World Traveler: The Quiet American (Vietnam)
Progress: 2/21
oshizu wrote: "Gratz on the progress, Mie, Megan, and Carmen!Carmen, 90 books!? I just checked and that's about 25% of all the books pledged for this challenge so far. I'm going to try to read books set in some..."
Well, as I told you before, I realized that we can include in this challenge almost every book we have in mind to read in the present quarter, so I readjusted my lists for April, May and June to achieve the more destinations the better, although it's posible that I'm too optimistic.
I plan to visit almost all of Europe and America (north and south), half of Africa and Asia (more or less) with some stops in Oceania and a couple of trips to outer space, if you need help searching for destinations just let me know.
I'll try to do my best and to not repeat destination very often, but sometimes it's inevitable because I have to fulfill another challenges at the same time, so a bit of juggling it's necessary, ;D.
Around the world in ninety books!!! (Carmen meets Phileas Fogg LOL)
Update to msg #25 - 2/10
Just finished #13 (multilingual) - Girl at War by Sara Novic. I love reading a book that is well-written and from which I can learn. This book had both of those things. I'm ashamed to say I know very little about the Yugoslavian civil war, and this book has inspired me to learn more. My only criticism was that the book ended abruptly - I feel like it was missing an epilogue or final section. Definitely worth reading! 4 stars2/21
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2026 Reading Challenge
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Let's see how many places we can visit together as a group in Quarter 2!
Participants
Anna (#30): 8/13
Cassie (#22): 4/5
Diane (#17): 4/5
Elina (#108): 6/8
Jamie (#31): 7/12
Jess (#21): 7/10
Maris (#32): 1/4
matilde (#18): 0/3
Megan (#23): 1/6
Octothorpe Reader Leora K. (#410): 0/8
Ran (#19): 3/10
SANDYE (#33): 2/3
Steph (#34): 4/6
Suzanne (#209): 7/21
Tina (#35): 2/5
Vale (#47): 0/3
Completed:
🌹Kiwi Begs2Differ (#58): 26/12 (21/21 tasks)
🌹Crystal (#9): 11/3
🌹Jessica (#7): 3/3
🌹SarahKat (#14): 9/6
🌹Mie (#5): 14/12
🌹Lindsay (#28): 8/6
🌹Susan (#29): 8/8
🌹Carmen (#10): 120/90 (21/21 tasks)
🌹Janine (#81): 10/9
🌹Clare (#63): 3/3
🌹Kelly (#8): 7/6
🌹Rebecca (#13): 3/3
🌹Amy (#15): 11/10
🌹James (#12): 2/2
🌹Margie (#39): 42/30 (21/21 tasks)
🌹Nikki (#115): 10/10
🌹oshizu (#4): 36/30 (21/21 tasks)
🌹TerryJane (#36): 15/15
🌹Katherine (#389): 19/19
🌹chan (#6): 9/9
🌹Megan (#24): 21/21
🌹Amanda (#16): 8/8
🌹Kristin (#27): 12/10
🌹Catka (#25): 33/30 (21/21 tasks)
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Challenge Stats
**Books Read/Pledged** **Finished/Participants**
15 Apr: 72/390 books (18.5%). 0/38 challenges done (0%)
30 Apr: 175/443 books (39.5%). 4/40 challenges done (10%)
16 May: 253/455 books (55.6%), 6/40 challenges done (15%)
31 May: 336/479 books (70.1%), 9/40 challenges done (22.5%): Unique destinations: 126
15 Jun: 413/479 books (86.2%); 13/40 challenges done (32.5%): Unique destinations: 143
30 Jun: 498/477 books (104.4%); 24/40 challenges done (60%); Unique destinations: 154
(Updated on June 30 through post #483)