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🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thurs 2 May 2024
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RE: 🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thurs 2 May 2024
Planning to be there at this stage.
Not sure I can make May as I'll be flying out either that day or the following one but will try!
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666 for 2024 - an around the world reading challenge [with bonus fictional world option]
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RE: #23 Dominican Republic
meganh and I just read Clap When You Land too and loved it!
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#14 France
#14 France
Entre Deux Mondes (Between Two Worlds) by Olivier Norek
(copy given to me by my Mum years ago)
A crime novel and a bestseller in France about the Calais Jungle and the problem of illegal immigrants trying …
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#13 Haiti
#13 Haiti
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
(library book)
Wow. This book is so raw and difficult to read in places, but considering the current situation in Haiti probably quite realistic. Possibly the best book I have …
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#10-12 - Vietnam, Dominican Republic, India
#10 Vietnam
On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
(library book)
Set in the US but grounded in Vietnam, with memories, recollections and a visit there towards the end of the book. A letter from the author to…
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🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thurs 7 March 2024
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RE: 🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thurs 7 March 2024
kkslibrary and I are planning (NOT playing!) to be there
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#8 Pakistan and #9 Oakbury Flats Death Park
Pakistan: The Long Road from Kandahar by Sara McDonald
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17120734/
Oakbury Flats Death Park: Five Minds by Guy Morpuss (library book)
This is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic…
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🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thurs 7 March 2024
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RE: 🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thurs 7 March 2024
kkslibrary and I are playing to be there at this stage.
Bump!
Excellente nouvelle !
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#4 Netherlands, #5 Solomon Islands, #6 Ireland, #7 French Guyana
#4 Netherlands
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16390052/
#5 Solomon Islands
One Blood by G. W. Kent
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14528408/
#6 Ireland
The Green Road …
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RE: 7/36 - Asia - Iran
Persepolis is one of my favorite novels of all time! It was also made into an animated movie, which is excellent too. Agree with your recommendation!
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RE: Tanzania, Australia: A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Maybe you mean Tasmania, the state island in the South of Australia? Tanzania is an African country.
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#1 UK #2 US #3 Australia
#1 UK - The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15856906/
#2 US - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17102558/
#3 Australia - Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher (…
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🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thursday 1 February 2024
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RE: RE: 🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thursday 1 February 2024
1 train and 2 buses apparently - last one I have to board at the Park and Ride, which will be a first for me! And thanks Megan for the offer (and good news for the negative test!) - if you can drop me off at a train stat…
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🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thursday 1 February 2024
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RE: 🇦🇺 Templestowe meetup Thursday 1 February 2024
Planning to be there via public transport!
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666 for 2024 - an around the world reading challenge [with bonus fictional world option]
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RE: RE: RE: RE: French Polynesia and French Guyana
Thanks kiwiinengland that's really useful. Maybe I need to chill out and go with the flow! And thanks for looking after this thread, am very excited to be joining this challenge for the first time.
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RE: RE: French Polynesia and French Guyana
Thanks meganh and 6to8 for your input. I guess they'd be the French equivalent of the Falklands Islands for Britain...not called colonies anymore but 'dependencies' or 'administrative provinces' etc.... I just don't want…
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French Polynesia and French Guyana
Technical question - where would books set in those above locations, respectively located in Pacific and South America regions, but technically not countries but administrative parts of France, be counted? Or would they …
Indeed!
Actually that looks like a fake account?
