Egads! Where has the time gone?
Last year, I started an Around the World Reading challenge for fellow book bloggers. The challenge is simple: to read at least one book from each of the six continents. (I did not include Antarctica, but I was delighted to note that one person did a post on a book about Antarctica anyway.)
I was pleased with the number of people who rose to my challenge. Below, I have compiled a list of all the challenge entries that were linked to my blog. (If you linked a post, and I missed it, please know that it was inadvertent or that your link didn’t work. Let me know, and I will rectify my mistake.)
I have to confess that I have not yet completed my own challenge. (I have neglected my blog for many months, but I’m getting back on the horse, so to speak.) I have entries for North America, Asia, and Africa, but still need some for Europe, Australia/New Zealand, and South America. I still have two more weeks left!
If you have joined the challenge, but haven’t finished yet, either, it’s not too late. There are two more weeks to get er done!
Thanks so much to everybody who participated!
North America
- John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath,
https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/book-challenge-2-the-grapes-of-wrath/ - Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down Bear North
https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/around-the-world-reading-challenge-book-review-bear-down-bear-north-by-melinda-moustakis/ - Sarah Payne Stuart, Perfectly Miserable
https://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/how-to-be-a-concord-new-englander/ - J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
https://just5paragraphs.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/holden-caulfield-would-fail-my-class/ - Liz Moore, Heft
- https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/februarys-wirt-heft/
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
http://abooksreview.com/2015/03/10/a-rational-look-at-life-of-pi/ - Joseph Boyden, The Orenda
http://regroovenating.com/2015/03/the-orenda-can-we-have-more-history.html/
- Jeff Goins,The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do, ARHtistic License http://arhtisticlicense.com/2015/07/01/what-is-my-calling/
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/book-review-the-snow-child/
- C. and Kristin Cast, Marked
https://lifetimediaryproject.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/marked-p-c-kristen-cast/
- Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman
https://notestiedonthesagebrush.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/everythings-not-black-or-white-in-go-set-a-watchman/
- Edith Wharton, Xingu
https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/x-is-for-xingu/
- Andre Alexis, Fifteen Dogs
http://albertsnewyork.com/2015/04/16/book-review-fifteen-dogs/
- L. James, Fifty Shades of Gray
https://ansumani.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/on-the-road-often-travelled-to-the-library/
South/Latin America
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel
http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/08/10/gabriel-garcia-marquez-minus magical-realism/#comment-284
- Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate
https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/book-review-like-water-for-chocolate/
- Pablo Neruda Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
http://regroovenating.com/2015/10/around-the-world-reading-challenge-book-4-the-essential-neruda-selected-poems.html/
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/around-the-world-book-challenge-4-one-hundred-years-of-solitude/
Europe
- S. Lewis, Mere Christianity from ARHtistic License
http://arhtisticlicense.com/2015/12/13/nothing-mere-about-it/ - Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/11/11/glassfuls-of-water-into-a-forest-fire-flight-to-arras/ - Giogio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/around-the-world-reading-challenge-the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis/#respond
- Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
https://suzettastone15.wordpress.com/ - Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan
http://albertsnewyork.com/2015/02/26/book-review-faithful-ruslan-2/ - Tim Moore, You are Awful (But I Like You)
https://amandaafield.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/book-review-you-are-awful-but-i-like-you/ - Anne Morgan, Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer
https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/around-the-world-reading-challenge-reading-the-world-confessions-of-a-literary-explorer/ - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/book-challenge-number-1-brave-new-world/ Patrick Modiano, Missing Person. https://ansumani.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/on-the-road-often-travelled-to-the-library/ - Hannah Berry, Britten & Brulightly
http://abooksreview.com/2015/03/03/britten-brulightly-a-secret-not-to-be-kept/ - Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief
https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/around-the-world-book-challenge-3-the-book-thief/ - Halldor Laxness, The Atom Station
https://inwhichhelen.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/can-you-sell-a-country-the-atom-station-review/ - James Joyce, Ulysses.
https://just5paragraphs.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/ulysses-by-james-joyce-huge-mistake/ - Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
https://lifetimediaryproject.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/limprevedibile-viaggio-di-harold-fry-rachel-joyce/ - Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/book-reviewer-advisory-explicit-admiration/ - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Le Petit Prince
http://regroovenating.com/2015/11/around-the-world-reading-challenge-book-5-le-petit-prince.html/
Asia
- Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan
http://jackieregales.com/2015/02/18/around-the-world-challenge-review-in-the-shadow-of-the-banyan/ - Road To Damascusby Elaine Rippey Imady
https://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/reminds-me-of-bethlehem/ - Haruki Murakami, IQ84
https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/januarys-wirt-1q84 - Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tusukuru Tazaki
https://ansumani.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/on-the-road-often-travelled-to-the-library/ - Sun Tzu, Art of War
https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/around-the-world-book-challenge-5-sun-tzus-the-art-of-war/ - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban.Malala Yousafzai
http://arhtisticlicense.com/2015/09/05/can-your-story-change-the-world/ - Mo Yan, Cambiamenti (This blog is written in Italian, which I do not speak, so I do not know what the English translation of this book is titled.)
https://lifetimediaryproject.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/cambiamenti-mo-yan/ - Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/around-the-world-reading-challenge-snow-country-by-yasunari-kawabata/
Africa
- Nuruddin Farah, Hiding in Plain Sight
https://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/hiding-in-plain-sight-by-nuruddin-farah/
- Nadine Gordimer, July’s People
https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/book-review-julys-people-by-nadine-gordimer/
- We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/we-need-new-names-book-review/
- Alain Mabanckou, Broken Glass
https://inwhichhelen.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/broken-glass-a-review/
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/around-the-world-book-challenge-6-purple-hibiscus/comment-page-1/#comment-676
Australia and New Zealand
- Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect
https://notestiedonthesagebrush.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/the-around-the-world-reading-challenge-2015-the-rosie-effect/ - Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/book-review-picnic-at-hanging-rock/
- David Malouf, Ransom
http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/11/29/ransom/
- Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/around-the-world-reading-challenge-cloudstreet-by-tim-winton/
- Liane Moriarty, The Husband’s Secret
https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/marchs-wirt-the-husbands-secret/
Antarctica
Walter Dean Myers, Antarctica: Journey to the South Pole
https://donnainthesouth.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/around-the-world-antartic
Busy reading Africa at the moment… 🙂
I know it doesn’t count since I wrote no reviews, but I think I read one from all 7 continents this past year! And Antarctica was one of the best – Endurance, about Shackleton’s voyage.
I see it’s not just me who hasn’t got round to reading anything from South America yet! That will be my Christmas reading….
I plan to read something by Clarice Lispector. Never read her before…