Reading the World discussion

This challenge will also earn points. Feel free to post now if you want to start planning. However, when you start tracking points please keep that at the top of your post/comment.

For this challenge you will read books set in capital cities around the world. You will need to tell us book title and the city to get points. However, sharing one thing you learned about the place will earn you an additional point. It will be tracked on this thread and will look like this:

Example Person's Thread:

1. Book Title - City Name = 1 point
2. I learned .... = 1 point
3. Book Title - City Name = 1 point
4. I learned ... = 1 point
RUNNING TOTAL as of xx/xx/2020 = 4 points

List of World Capitals:

https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

1. Book Title - City Name = 1 point
I learned .... = 1 point

2. Book Title - City Name = 1 point
I learned ... = 1 point

1. Please Look After Mom - Seoul = 1
I learned a bit about the food, the cost of living, even what homes looked like. Also some of the religious traditions surrounding the dead. = 1
2. Snow - Ankara = 1

Total = 3

Capitals Challenge

1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Edinburgh, Scotland (1 point)
I learned that the Cannongate area was a slum in the 1930s.(1 point)

2. The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus (1 point)
I learned that it was a bad idea to be a noble Roman during these years, since you were likely to be betrayed or murdered. (1 point)

3. Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds by Aristophanes Athens, Greece (1)
I learned that there were only male actors on stage and the leading actors played multiple roles, wearing masks.(1)

4. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff London, England (1)

5. The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1)
I learned that the wooden building survived the earthquake. (1)

6. La tía Julia y el escribidor by Mario Vargas Llosa (1) Lima, Peru

7. Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland by 9.Matthew Brzezinski Warsaw, Poland
I learned that Warsaw was one of the most heavily damaged of all the cities in World War Two. (2)

8. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Moscow, Russia (1)

9. Beyond Hitler's Grasp by Michael Bar-Zohar Sofia, Bulgaria
The Jewish people in Bulgaria were Sephardic and spoke Ladino. 2 points

10. The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye Muscat, Oman 1 point

11. The Time of the Goats by Luan Starova Skopje, Northern Macedonia 1 point

12. The Successor by Ismail Kadare Tirana, Albania 1 point

13. The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley Pristina, Kosovo 1 point

14. Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina 1 point

15. The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergović Dubrovnik, Croatia 1 point

Total: 21 points

Points earned:

1. A Ballad for Georg Henig - Sofia (Bulgaria) = 1 point
2. Forever a Stranger and Other Stories- Jakarta (Formerly Batavia) (Indonesia). I learned that until fairly recent history the Dutch had control of Indonesia- I knew it had colonial history but I was pretty ignorant of which colonial power had usurped it and how long it remained that way. = 2 points.
3. The Female Quixote- London (UK) = 1 point
4. The History of the Siege of Lisbon- Lisbon (Portugal) = 1 point
5. The Man Who Loved Children- Washington D.C (U.S.A) =1 point
6. The Flamethrowers- Rome (Italy)- 1 point
7. Three Trapped Tigers- Havana (Cuba)- 1 point
8. The Untouchable-Moscow (Russia: this book takes place between the UK/Russia/France and breifly the US)- 1 point
9. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey- Managua (Nicaraugua)- 1 point
10. Celestial Bodies- Muscat (Oman)- 1 point
11. A Heart So White- Madrid (Spain) -1 point
12. Nowhere Man- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)-1 point
13. Smilla's Sense of Snow- Copenhagen (Denmark) - 1 point
14. The Roots of HeavenN'Djamena- (Chad). I learned that the city used to be called Fort Lamy when it was established in French Colonial times. (2 points)
15. Promise at Dawn-Vilnius (Lithuania). I leanred at the time (pre-WWII) it was called Vilna and was actually a Polish speaking part of the Russian Empire (2 points)
16. The Girl Who Fell to Earth- Doha (Qatar). (1 point)
17. The Monk of Mokha- Sana'a (Yemen) (1 point)
18. Spring Snow- Tokyo (Japan) (1 point)
19. Austerlitz- Prague (Czech Republic) (1 point)
20. Midaq Alley - Cairo (Egypt) (1 point)
21. The Stone Diaries-Ottawa (Canada) (1 point)
22. None But The Brave -Vienna (Austria) (1 point)

total = 25 points