Yikes! I almost forgot about this! Back to school has changed my computer habits and reading habits and sleeping and, well, you get the picture. We had the remains of one of those hurricanes blow by us and we got a dump of rain. Lots of basements and streets flooded. It's the first time I can remember we've had roads washed out here. Crazy weather for sure. I hope everyone along the eastern seaboard survived the weather events this last week and stayed relatively dry.
Reading wise, I am visiting with some mates in a pub in London and we are about to deliver our friend's ashes as per his last wishes. It's Last Orders often at our favorite pub in Graham Swift's Booker winning novel.
Where is reading taking you this week?
This is a fun idea.
ReplyDeleteI am somewhere in Western Australia, I have not found out exactly where yet. I believe surfing is going to be involved at some point.
Africa (Nigeria--Half of a Yellow Sun). Although I just got there. Previously I was in Italy, India, and Indonesia learning to Eat, Pray, and Love.
ReplyDeleteI am STILL in London with Pip (Great expectations). I am listening to it, so I don;t get to move forward in the story very much.
ReplyDeleteI am also in Outback Australia. I have just gone back after a long absence (Diamond Dove by Adrian Hyland).
Finally, I am in Rome trying to infiltrate the vampires (Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason)
My dogs were wrestling in the living room and knocked Last Orders off the shelf, reminding me that I haven't read it, and should soon! I'm in Guernsey with the letter writers, and on audio - inside the head of Daniel Tammet an autistic savant who has written, Born on a Blue Day.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Massachusetts witnessing the Salem Witch Trials.
ReplyDeleteI'm an orphan in Paris in the mid eighteenth century.
ReplyDeleteHope the rain didn't cause you any damage.
Mine is up and I am in Tokyo
ReplyDeleteI'm in Warsaw in 1935 learning how Jan and Antonina Zabinski came to be the zookeepers there.
ReplyDeleteI just started The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman this morning.
I'm in current day Cleveland, OH trying to track down 'The Book of Lies' by Brad Meltzer.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the countryside of England (Dorset) meeting up with such creatures as ghosts and boggarts. (Tamsin by Peter Beagle)
ReplyDeleteWell, it looks like a few of us are in England. Where am I exactly and with whom? Look here.
ReplyDeleteI am still in Kentucky. I did some sketches of scenes from the book look here. http://confuzzledbooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-tuesday-where-are-you_09.html
ReplyDeleteI'm in England, having given up trying to eat the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, I'm searching for dogs (I'm a cat) to help me rescue my unloving family (Varjak Paw)
ReplyDeleteI don't seem to be anywhere happy this week...on a disturbingly creepy island in The Island of Dr. Moreau, in a ballroom full of witches in The Witches, and in a hospital room in the short story "The Blue Lenses". May next week find somewhere a bit more pleasant.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....I'm going back and forth between London, fighting Vampires (When Twilight Burns) and heading towards North Umbrage in New England with The Good Thief!
ReplyDeleteVery cool idea!
ReplyDeleteI am in a slave cabin at the moment(The Known World) but just before that,I was in NYC,living out post-geisha days (Memoirs of a Geisha)
I'm in Manhattan starting up my own business that assists upscale New Yorkers in enrolling their wonderful little preschool children into the best kindergarten possible; this after loosing my job, finding my husband in the bathtub with another woman, and having to downsize my life after the divorce. (The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn) Diane
ReplyDeleteWow, there's definitely a London fog rolling in. I'm there as well. It's 2003. (Ian McEwan's Saturday)
ReplyDeleteI really need to get more organized and remember to do this on the right day. :) My only excuse this week is I'm stuck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean waiting for some seriously bad weather to hit (Tsunami by Gordon Gumpertz)and having a hard time putting the dang book down!
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