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Shorter Fiction A - Zed

2008-10-05T10:16:00.000-07:00

Beginning October 2008
by author, either short story or novella, under 200 pages

A- Auster, Paul - Augie Wren's Christmas Story (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) US
B- Block, Francesca Lia - Weetzie Bat, 109 pages
C- Cheever, John - Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) US
D- Davies, Robertson - High Spirits (a collection) Canada
E-
F- Ford, Richard - Creche (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) US
G- Gallant, Mavis - The Sunday After Christmas (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Canada
H- Henandez, Juan Jose - For Christmas (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Argentina
I- Ishiguro, Kazou - Nocturnes (5 Stories of Music and Nightfall)
J- Jackson, Shirley - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962
K-
L- Lenz, Siegfried - A Risk for Father Christmas (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Germany
M- MacLeod, Alistair - Winter Dog (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Canada
Mistry, Rohinton - The Scream
N- Nabokov, Vladimir - Christmas (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Russia/US
O- Odrach, Theodore - The Night Before Christmas (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Ukraine
P- Perkins Gilman, Charlotte - The Yellow Wallpaper (dailylit.com)
Q-
R- Ramirez, Sergio - Saint Nikolaus (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Nicaragua
S- Spark, Muriel - The Leaf-Sweeper (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Scotland
T- Trevor, William - Another Christmas (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) Ireland
U-
V- VanLiere, Donna - The Christmas Shoes
W- Winterson, Jeanette - O'Brien's First Christmas (The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories) England
X-
Y- Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen
Z- Zola, Emil - The Death of Olivier Becaille

Reading Around the 50 States

2007-07-22T10:05:00.000-07:00

Bonnie is planning a Reading Around the 50 States Challenge, and since I love to make lists, I'm going to see how this goes. As I read a book from a state, I'll update the map and add the link to the review. The rest of the states and books are just future ideas.
2007: 11 states visited
2008: 7 states visited
2009: 6 state visited
2010: 5 states visited: Indiana, Texas, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin

visited 28 states (56%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

Alabama: Looking for Alaska by John Green 2009
Alaska:
Arizona: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Arkansas: Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris 2007
California (southern): Killer Swell by Jeff Shelby 2007
Colorado: Booked to Die by John Dunning 2008
Connecticut: Sacred Cows by Karen E Olsen 2009
Florida: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate diCamilleo 2009 (no review)
Georgia: Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White 2007
Hawaii: Molokai by Alan Brennert
Illinois: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen 2007
Indiana: She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel 2010
Iowa: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson 2008
Kansas: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 2007
Louisiana: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toule 2007
Maine: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2009
Maryland:
Massachusetts: Mercy by Jodi Picoult 2007
Michigan:
Minnesota: Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Ladvik 2008
Mississippi: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 2008
Missouri:
Montana:
Nebraska: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers 2007
Nevada: The Missing Ink by Karen E Olson 2010
New Hampshire: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 2007
New Jersey: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 2007
New Mexico:
New York: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn 2008
North Carolina: Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B Ross 2007
North Dakota:
Ohio: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Don Robertson 2009
Oregon:
Pennsylvania: Love Walked in by Maria De los Santos
South Carolina: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 2008
South Dakota:
Tennessee: A Death in the Family by James Agee 2009
Texas: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, 2010
Utah:
Vermont:
Washington: Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos 2010
Wisconsin: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink 2010
West Virginia: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 2008
Wyoming:

Ideas:
http://framedbookaroundthestates.blogspot.com/
from Ken Jennings A - Missouri, and Montana - Wyoming

Around the World in 80 Countries

2007-06-10T16:10:00.000-07:00

The goal is to eventually read a book about/from 80 countries in the world. I'm beginning in 2007, when I began blogging about the books I read. Some will be new, some old, some fiction, some nonfiction; something to represent as many countries as I can. Books that have been read are linked to their reviews, and their countries are bolded.

2007: 23 countries visited
2008: 17 new countries visited
2009: 15 new countries visited: Mongolia, Channel Islands, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Egypt, Brazil, Lebanon, Indonesia, Hungary, Myanmar, Ghana, Tibet, North Korea, Cyprus
2010: Finland, Ethiopia
2011: Austria

Here's a link to all the countries: http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html

visited 55 states (24.4%)
Create your own visited map of The World

AFRICA 11/55

Algeria The Plague - Albert Camus 2008

Angola
Benin
Botswana The Kalihari School of Typing for Men - Alexander McCall Smith 2008

Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo Brazzaville
Congo Kinshasa
Djibouti

Egypt - Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively 2009
The Yacoubian Building

Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 2010

Gabon
Gambia
Ghana - Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey 2009
Guinea-Bissau
Guinee Conakry
Ivory Coast
Kenya The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton 2008
Lesotho
Liberia

Libya In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar 2008

Madagascar
Malawi
Mali Monique and the Mango Rains - Kris Holloway (NF, suggested by shana)
Footprints in the Sand - Sarah Challis
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco This Blinding Absence of Light - Ben Jelloun, Tahar 2008

Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2007
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 2008

Reunion
Rwanda Shaking Hands with the Devil - Romeo Dollaire
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Bael 2008

Somalia
South Africa The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee 2008

Sudan The Translator - Leila Aboulela 2007

Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

AMERICAS 8/51
Canada Cloud of Bone - Bernice Morgan 2007

Greenland
United States A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 2007

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Barbados
Bahamas
Belize
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Costa Rica

Cuba Dancing to Almendra - Mayra Montero 2009

Dominica - Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Grenada
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Mexico Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo 2007

Monserrat
Netherlands Antilles
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Turks and Caicos Islands
Trinidad and Tobago
Virgin Islands

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil - December Heat - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza 2009

Chile - Daughter of Fortune - Isabelle Allande 2009

Colombia - Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2009

Ecuador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay

Peru Who Killed Palomino Molero? - Mario Vargas Llosa 2008
Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thorton Wilder

Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

ASIA 13/45 +Tibet
Afghanistan The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra 2007

Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia

China Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See 2008

East Timor
India
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 2007
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga 2008

Indonesia Map of the Invisible World - Tash Aw 2009

Iran
Persepolis 1 and 2 - Marjane Satrapi 2008
Reading Lolita in Tehran -Azar Nafisi 2008

Iraq
Israel
A Woman in Jerusalem;
Literary Murder: A Critical Case - Batya Gur

Japan Shadow Family - Miyuki Miyabe (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter) 2008

Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon - De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage 2009

Malaysia - The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
Maldives
Mongolia Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale (ancient Mongolia, fairy tale) 2009

Myanmar - The Lizard Cage - Karen Connelly 2009

Nepal
North Korea - Pyongyang -Guy Delisle 2009
Oman
Palestinian Authority
Pakistan A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammad Hanif 2008

Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka Reef - Romesh Gunesekera 2007

South Korea
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tibet - Sky Burial - Xinran 2009
Turkey
Istanbul: Memories and the City - Orhan Pamuk 2007
Other Colors - Orhan Pamuk 2007

Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC 3/24
American Samoa
Australia
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zukas 2007
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz 2008

Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia, Federated States of
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand The Bone People - Keri Hulme 2007

Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones 2008

Pitcairn Islands
Rarotonga & the Cook Islands
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Western Samoa

EUROPE 18 /51
Albania
Andorra
Armenia

Austria - The Little Book - Seldon Edwards

Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zlata's Diary 2007
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway 2008

Bulgaria
Channel Islands The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - MaryAnn Shaffer 2009
Croatia

Cyprus - Small Wars - Sadie Jones 2009

Czech republic Ignorance - Milan Kundera 2007

Denmark
Estonia
FaroeIslands
Finland - Snow Angels - James Thompson 2010

France The Stranger - Albert Camus 2007

Georgia
Germany Night - Elie Weisel 2007

Gibraltar
Greece

Hungary The Rebels - Sandor Marai 2009

Iceland Silence of the Grave - Araldur Indridason 2008

Ireland Irish Stories for Christmas - John B Keane 2007

Italy
The Shape of Water - Andrea Camilleri (translated by Stephen Sartarelli) 2007
The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino ( translated by Archibald Colquhoun) 2007

Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Monaco
Netherlands On the Water - HM van den Brink 2007

Norway Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson 2008

Poland
Portugal Alentejo Blue - Monica Ali 2007

Romania
Russia House of Meeting - Martin Amis 2008
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith 2008

San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coehlo 2007

Spain The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2006)
Sweden The Princess of Burundi - Kjell Eriksson 2007

Switzerland Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner 2008

Ukraine
United Kingdom
England: Arthur & George - Julian Barnes 2007
Scotland: One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson 2007
Wales:
Vatican City