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Joy D's Tourist Plus 2025
Country #1: PolandRegion: Europe
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk - 1/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #2: CanadaRegion: North America
In Winter I Get Up at Night by Jane Urquhart - 1/4/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #3: RussiaRegion: Asia (the novel is set in Kamchatka)
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips - 1/6/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #6: United StatesRegion: North America
Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework - 1/15/25 - 4* - My Review
Thank you Joy for the review on The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable. I seem to be on a Historical Fiction kick lately. I added the book to my Want to Read list. I just started back on Goodreads today since 2019!
Karen wrote: "Thank you Joy for the review on The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable. I seem to be on a Historical Fiction kick lately. I added the book to my Want to Read list. I just started back on Goodread..."My pleasure. Hope you enjoy it, Karen!
Country #9: UgandaRegion: Africa
All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Sullivan - 1/22/25 - 5* - My Review
Country #10: MicronesiaRegion: Oceania
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara - 1/23/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #12: TongaRegion: Oceania
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides - 1/27/25 - 5* - My Review
Country #14: South KoreaRegion: Asia
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum - 1/29/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #1 Chile A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Karen, I think you may have put your comment above in the wrong thread.
It appears your are right. Where do I put this?
You can create your own topic, and add comments to track your books.Go to "ATW in 80 Books World Challenge" - you can click on the link above - then look at the upper right and you will see "new topic" - click on that and then add your tracking topic.
Country #17: NigeriaRegion: Africa
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 2/4/25 - 3* - My Review
Country #18: GreeceRegion: Europe
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor - 2/5/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #19: EcuadorRegion: South America / Latin America
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf - 2/9/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #20: EgyptRegion: Africa
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick - 2/10/25 - 4.5 - My Review
Country #21: IcelandRegion: Europe
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May - 2/11/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #24: UkraineRegion: Europe
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - 2/20/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #25: South AfricaRegion: Africa
Mbaqanga Nights by Leonora Meriel - 2/21/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #26: Japan
Region: Asia
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley - 2/25/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #27: MexicoRegion: North America
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - 3/9/25 - 3* - My Review
Country #29: IndiaRegion: Asia
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - 3/20/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #33: LebanonRegion: Middle East
The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré - 3/29/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Country #34: ArgentinaRegion: South America
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell - 4/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #36: IraqRegion: Middle East
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer - 4/12/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #39: PhilippinesRegion: Asia
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe - 4/19/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Country #40: IranRegion: Middle East
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - 4/20/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #41: UK (Scotland)Region: Europe
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick MacRae by Graeme Macrae Burnet - 4/21/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #42: BoliviaRegion: South America
Exile Music: A Novel by Jennifer Steil - 4/24/25 - 4* - My Review
Country #44: AustriaRegion: Europe
The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler - 4/30/25 - 3* - My Review
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