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Although I still have some reading to do this week, I think I‘ve finished all I‘m going to fit in for #ReadingTheAmericas2023. I completed at least 15 books and experienced more countries through them. 7 of these books are also on the #1001books list. This challenge was a great way to continue to broaden my reading, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

#ReadingTheWorld #ReadTheWorld #2023Stats

An update on my #ReadingTheAmericas2023 Challenge.

Still got :
5 South American Countries to get
4 Central American Countries (reading a Panama book at the moment)
And quite a few islands!

Thanks to @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle for hosting these great challenges and setting them up on StoryGraph which is a good way to track them.

I enjoyed reading about Levison Wood walking across Central America. I recognized many places from when I traveled those countries myself in the 90s (by bus, not walking 😉). The book is more about the traveling than the visited places though.

Ticking off many prompts for #ReadingTheAmericas23: #Mexico #Belize #Guatemala #Honduras #CostaRica #Panama #Colombia 🇲🇽 🇧🇿 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇨🇷 🇵🇦 🇨🇴

(Photo: Serralunga, Piemonte, Italy)

I enjoyed this, but it didn‘t quite live up to expectations. I expected more little details about places along the way. For example, we continuously hear how difficult the Darrien Gap is going to be, but they get completely through it in a couple of 20 minute audio chapters. The friendship between Lev and Alberto was fantastic.

#audiobook #nonfiction #ReadingTheAmericas
#Mexico #Belize #Guatemala #Honduras #Nicaragua #CostaRica #Panama #Colombia

Very interesting journey through Central America and the Darien Gap.

I enjoyed this a lot more than Walking The Nile, possibly because I listened to it rather than reading it, and I think travelogues do work better on audio.

I particularly enjoyed Lev‘s relationship with his friend Alberto in this one, and of course it works for *many* countries for #readingtheamericas23.

#mexico #belize #guatemala #honduras #nicaragua #costarica #panama

I LOVE traveling with Lev. He‘s a natural at describing the places he‘s exploring using vivid descriptions and offering a great dose of historical context. I can always picture the locations & get a true sense of the environment. Lev always attempts the off-beaten path & this one did not disappoint! Plus I checked off a bunch of countries from my list😜 🇲🇽 🇨🇷🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇭🇳
#ReadingTheAmericas23

Halfway through and I‘m LOVING my time with Lev - I‘m having a different experience than @Megabooks
I‘m finding his trek from #Mexico to #Columbia vivid, colorful and engaging. Lev has a knack for bringing every place he visits to life. #ReadingTheAmericas23 #Hoopla so far #Mexico #Belize #Guatemala #Honduras

I may have gone in with too high expectations, but this was a #GoodNotGreat unmemorable memoir where the author and a friend WALK from Mexico to Columbia. I like travelogues more when the author interacts with local people and really gives me a sense of what it‘s like to be there. (See Erika Fatland‘s books) This was more about the actual trek and being a modern-day explorer. Might be a good choice if that‘s what your after. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wood walks Central America with a Mexican friend he made when he lived in Merida, #Mexico. Not as rigorous as his walking the Nile, except for their passage through the Darien Gap, an impenetrable jungle that has stopped most explorers. It was quite the struggle, but oddly took up little space in the book. What was unique to this adventure was Wood's encounters with internationals trekking to enter the US illegally and gang-plagued countries ⬇

I have identified all the countries the author walks through to count them for #readingtheAmericas and here they are:

#Mexico, #Belize, #Guatemala, #Honduras, #ElSalvador, #CostaRica, #Panama, #Colombia

Three hours to go I‘m this audiobook

I can‘t believe a narrator was chosen for the Americas who has no idea how to say “taco” or “agua.” I‘ve been managing listening to him say taco as if it were pronounced tacko (like “whacko”), but now that the author has entered Nicaragua, I can barely manage to listen to him pronounce “agua” with four syllables. Arrrrrrrggggghhhh!!!

#readingtheamericas

I just finished Walking the Nile by the same author and decided this is the perfect next book. I‘ll get started on it tomorrow since I‘m driving on a business trip. Wood walks through 8 countries from #Mexico to #Colombia so it should help me cover a nice chunk of countries for #readingtheamericas

After liking Walking The Nile I decided to search out some more of Lev Wood‘s books. In this one he walks from Mexico to Colombia. I really like his books but I‘m starting to think it‘s weird that his world is filled with men. #FoodAndLit #Colombia

Great book. A bit simplistic in some ways and clearly written from a vantage point of a person with privilege. Nice story telling though and inspirational.

Hey lady! You are my #whiterabbitswap! Have to work but should be sending some stuff out Tuesday!! I‘ll let you know when it ships:))) So excited!!

Reminds me of Blackadder. 😁

If you like travel books, this one is really interesting. He walks through 8 countries, from Mexico to Colombia, 1800 miles.

Had a little jaunt to Nantwich, Cheshire on this lovely sunny day. A coffee shop and bookshop in a building from 1583. Yes please. Book for me, and book for Mr Oryx.

I requested this #nonfiction from the library after seeing something about it on Shelf Awareness. I'm about a quarter in and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, especially since he hasn't even started the journey yet. Has anyone read his other books?

Buster was not interested in posing with the book. He was also not interested in staying awake while I took the photo. 😂 #dogsoflitsy #pugsoflitsy