The Sunday Salon: Around the World in 80 hours

Since I'm still fairly incapacitated, hand-wise, this will be an ultra short SS post today. I'm getting lots of good reading done, on a bit of a global whirlwind:

• Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria/Biafra)
• Mudbound (US - Mississippi)
  
• Weaving a Way Home (all over the map)
  
• An Artist of the Floating World (Japan)
• The Story of Lucy Gault (Ireland)
• The World Without Us (Planet Earth, sans humans) - still reading

Hmm, where to next? Perhaps Italy -The Leopard - or Canada - The Blind Assassin - or maybe a trip Down Under - Oscar and Lucinda.




My actual right hand (the left one looks similar). No pretty maps, just pretty stitches and bruises. Read More!

Reading globally

I got curious about how many countries I've visited in my reading. So I made this map.


Only 35 countries (that I can remember). I have a lot of gaps in Africa and, surprisingly, in Europe. I'll keep track of this in '08 but not in a reading challenge sort of way - more a curiosity for now. Maybe '09 will find me trying to read around the world and turn more of the map red. Read More!