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I read it last year when I was doing a somewhat similar challenge (but I also allowed travel books and non-fiction--and then rather wished I hadn't). It surprised me that some of my favorites were contempory detective novels; I think it was because they weren't self-consciously arty or analytical, but very matter of fact about everyday life, as you'd expect. |
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10-16-2013, 02:55 PM | #63 |
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I think I've got a good variety in my book list so far. I think I'll skip keeping it a secret.
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Canada Thomson Highway, Rez Sisters United States John Steinbeck, The Pearl Mexico Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz Cuba Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Havana Blue Belize Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb Guatemala Rodrigo Rey Rosa; The Beggar's Knife El Salvador Manlio Argueta, One Day of Life Peru Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio Chile Maria Luisa Bombal, House of Mist Bolivia Edmundo Paz Soldan, Turing's Dilemma Argentina Adolpho Bioy-Casares, The Invention of Morel Nigeria Ben Okri, The Famished Road Uruguay Eduardo Galeano, Genesis Brazil Patricia Melo, In Praise of Lies Venezuela Romulo Gallegos, Dona Barbara Angola Jose Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons Zambia Gaile Parkin, Baking Cakes in Kigali Zimbabwe Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly Mozambique Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences South Africa J M Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year Australia David Malouf, Remembering Babylon Indonesia Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops Malaysia Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day Vietnam Lihn Dihn, Blood and Soap China Mo Yan, Reg Sorghum South Korea Young-ha Kim, Your Republic is Calling You Japan Haruki Murakami, Hard Boiled Wonderland Russia Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic Kazakhstan Mukhamet Shayakhmetov, The Silent Steppe Uzbekistan Hamid Ismailov, The Railway Afghanistan Atiq Rahimi, Earth and Ashes Pakistan Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke India Tabish Khair, The Bus Stopped Kenya Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Nairobi Heat Ethiopia Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze Sudan Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley Egypt Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building Turkey Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red Bulgaria Georgi Gospodinov, Natural Novel Romania Ilie Nastase, Break Point Hungary Theodora Goss, In the Forest of Forgetting Ukraine Nella Bieski, The Year is '42 Poland Stanislaw Lem, Return From the Stars Lithuania Linia Zilionyte, Born for Freedom Sweden Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Finland Maria Peura, At the Edge of Light Norway Matte Newth, The Transformation Germany Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation Switzerland Johanna Spyri - Heidi; Peter Stamm Italy Donato Carrisi - The Lost Girls of Rome Albania Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in Stone Libya Hishmam Matar, In the Country of Men Last edited by HomeInMyShoes; 10-17-2013 at 09:56 AM. |
10-16-2013, 08:42 PM | #64 |
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Thanks for sharing your list -- it's always great to see what others are planning on reading, especially when they've come to their lists through such interesting means!
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10-16-2013, 10:51 PM | #65 |
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It's bound to change a little, but I think it's probably an 80% accuracy list. I'm still going to hunt up other countries and there's a few countries I've found that I am skipping for brevity. Iceland falls into that category this time around. Ireland and the United Kingdom fall into the read it more than its fair share. I could skip the United States by going Canada to Iceland/Ireland to Mexico, but I've got Steinbeck on my shelf here so it gets the nod as something that I have available. I purchased my Indonesia title today and I'll be trying to get the books lined up for the journey except the library loans prior to December.
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10-17-2013, 09:20 AM | #66 |
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Some more statistics for those interested. According to some listing of countries by continent that I picked out of some less-than-trustworty Internet site, I am covering the following (percentage of countries visited):
30.44% of North America 58.33% of South America 7.14% of Oceania 20.37% of Africa 29.55% of Asia 27.66% of Europe |
10-17-2013, 10:00 AM | #67 |
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Because you've got such an interesting list there, I'm expecting a "book report" after each. Just a couple of paragraphs will do. Your compliance is appreciated.
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No book reports.
I already went through directed readings in post-grad school, that was enough for me. I will probably write a little more than usual about each book over in my challenge thread on GoodReads, but no formal reviews. I'm looking for a decent political map of the world. Something of a decent, but not too large size (say 2 or 3 feet across) and up to date. I wouldn't mind an land form/elevation map that has the countries listed on it. I'd also like it to be up to date. I need South Sudan on it for instance. |
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create your own visited country map This one is just the one I have used before and doesn't appear to have a BBCode output option, but it is easy to convert. I am also not clear on how easy it is to update, you may need to re-enter each country every time you update which would be annoying. Here are a bunch more sites that provide options. The first from that list is a little more updated (includes South Sudan), but I am not sure if the output will work on MR. An "Indiana Jones" style travel map showing the "route" you took would be really cool, but I don't see one in a quick search. |
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Nice. I'd like to do something like that too. Right now I'm focusing on a map for my wall that I could draw on with a grease pencil to show the route. I could take photos of that map every now and then to post as a low-tech solution.
Not easily embedded, but this is what my map would look like when done if all goes according to plan: TravelTips for HomeInMyShoes |
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Oh hey, check out my GoodReads, it's from Big Huge Labs and I'm willing to advertise them because they make some pretty fun stuff for flickr as well.
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Wow this is all very impressive with the maps and everything Are you going to make some kind of passport too?
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10-17-2013, 03:07 PM | #74 |
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Oh great, now a passport. I love little books and I think I might pick something out to record my reading travels in some manner, although the GoodReads discussion thread is probably just as good. I might create a blog for this as well, especially if I am going to end up extending this challenge to try to finish off the world at some point.
Oh good grief, I just found one for Absurdistan. 128 pages is a little short, but two countries a page would probably work. I think I really need to blog this in some way. Maybe the discussion thread over on Goodreads would be good enough, but I might want to include other things and it would probably be better organized on a blog. I can create a map image in some manner of where I am, I'm thinking of zoomed in photos of a real physical map with the, as suggested, Indiana Jones kind of line drawing over it showing the route. |
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Don't forget the entry stamp when you start a book for a given country, and then the exit stamp when you've finished it
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