#wondrouswednesday
Thanks to @Eggs @eeclayton
1. I did OK on my (loose) goals:
Participate in all #FoodandLit challenges: I read a book for every month ✔, but I sometimes cheated a bit on the home cooking front
Read books set in the Creuse department of France: ✔
I am happy with my progress w/ my Global Challenge (https://www.librarything.com/topic/338585): I added a few countries to the list, and reached the 5-book goal for some ✔
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Loved it - 1 of November's highlights. Utterly charmed. I just wish the translator (I read it in French) had used footnotes to explain points of culture/habits/preconceptions/mythology, etc. Knowing that some of the nuances, connotations and inferences passed me by is frustrating...
Scenery from Pyhätunturi in Pyhä-Luosto Nationalpark in Finland from Jaro Larnos via Wikimedia
Have started Fishing for the Little Pike, set in Finnish Eastern Lapland. Elina needs to catch the last surviving pike in what's left of the lake at the end of summer, when it has turned into marshes. The descriptions of marshes, mosquitoes and horseflies are giving me nightmares. Contrary supernatural beings are starting to appear. This should be fun 😏
Picture of Hietasaari, Lake Saimaa by Timo Saarinen, via Wikimedia Commons
Fishing for the Little Pike | 
3. Looking forward to starting Homegoing for Food and Lit's Ghanaian month.