I am in Iceland, where a body has been found at the body of a draining lake. There seems to be some connection between the body and the cold war activity during the 1960s. (The Draining Lake, Arnaldur Indridason)
Don't forget that we are voting here tomorrow on the latest Bookword in our game after taking suggestions at Sueys.
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Interesting.... I'm in London. It's 1940 and bombs are falling.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Nebraska, coming home for my father's funeral and thinking about my mother, who disappeared during a tornado many years ago. Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos.
ReplyDeleteOooh, I'd never heard of that book, but it sounds intriguing.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Zimbabwe (House of Stone). Or I guess I should say I'm in Rhodesia, because it's only 1970.
I don't know my exact location:
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sounds like an interesting trip! Me, I'm in western Pennsylvania, with a very good debut novel by Philipp Meyers.
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I'm in the American West in 1845. I'm on a wagon train heading for Oregon. Find me here:
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Just left Oxfordshire where I'd been spending weekends at a large country manor with old college friends. The group dynamic was very emotionally charged and things will never be the same again. (The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse)
ReplyDeleteI'm somewhere in Latin America, my wife can see the future and has just given birth to twins and found her mother's decapitated head. (House of Spirits, Allende)
ReplyDeleteI am just about to leave an ancient Greece world... (historical fantasy, so not totally fact-based) in Black Ships... I am actually sitting here trying to decide where I want to visit next!
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I have never heard of The Draining Lake - sounds ineresting.
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I'm in Parma, Italy, cheering on the Panthers who just won the Super Bowl for the first time with the help of American quarterback Rick Dockery.
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I'm in Quebec, mid 1900s. (The Appenticeship of Duddy Kravitz).
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I am in Amsterdam in the 17th century. The whole city has gone tulip mad and basking in the wealth that the flower trade has bought to the city. (Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach).
ReplyDeleteI am also in the Tri city area of Washington State. I am a mechanic who seems to be getting very involved with the werewolves, vampires and fae who live in the area (Moon Called by Patricia Briggs)
I just got off a slave ship from Africa and landed in England. On the road traveling to my new home (The Book of Negroes)
ReplyDeleteAlso going from one place in the USA to the next to learn more about what happens to body after death (Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers).
I'm a little late, but I was with Kevin Smith as he made Clerks II and helped his good friend, Jason Mewes, kick his drug habit.
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This week I was in France (Bonjour Tristesse), then Russia (The Death of Ivan Ilyich).
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