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#MOvember #Frozen lots of freezing weather in Swedish crime writer, Henning Mankells books. I think I‘ll revisit one for #readingeurope @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB looking forward to seeing the info on this challenge👍🏻. I‘m thinking of doing 2 book challenges this year Cindy 🥳📚( definitely going to need that Litsy diary ...

Cinfhen

Cinfhen I‘m with you!!!! 5y

JennyM Brrr...I‘m cold just looking at those covers ❄️ (edited) 5y

squirrelbrain I‘m going to do #readingeurope as well as #booked2020! 5y

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Cathythoughts @Cinfhen 👍🏻❤️📚 5y

Cathythoughts @JennyM freezing 🥶💙 5y

Cathythoughts @squirrelbrain Me too Helen ! Exciting 📚🥰.... this will be a fun year 5y

Cathythoughts @squirrelbrain I wonder if a book fits both challenge prompts can you use it for both 🤔or is that cheating ... 5y

squirrelbrain No that‘s not cheating @cathythoughts - lots of people do that. I‘ve already started picking out some books for next year and some of them double up...it‘s the best way! 5y

Cathythoughts @squirrelbrain ok good to know .... my poor brain will be addled 🥴😆 5y

batsy #readingeurope sounds good and #booked2020 too... I'm contemplating 🤩 5y

Cathythoughts @batsy oh brilliant Suba !! I hope you do these too .... 👍🏻❤️ 5y

BarbaraBB We just posted the announcement. So happy we‘re going to read Europe together next year! I hope you‘ll join too @batsy 🙏 5y

erzascarletbookgasm I am tempted #readingeurope but am afraid I might be signing up for too many challenges 🤔 5y

Cathythoughts @batsy @erzascarletbookgasm @BarbaraBB I just dived in 👍🏻signed up & all. 🥳 5y

erzascarletbookgasm 👏 so exciting Cathy! I took a peep at the sign up form. Most likely I won‘t join because I would have difficulty accessing books for some countries. 😔 5y

Cathythoughts @erzascarletbookgasm I‘m aiming to complete #Booked2020 ... I‘m aiming to do my best with the #readingeurope ..... I can help you Jessie , if you want to do it, I could send you books ... I‘d be delighted to ! 5y

Crazeedi How do you keep things organized if your signed up for different challenges? I just seem to get confused and then give up. Ims doing #booked2020 (I think I signed up for it?) Oh my how to keep track!!!! 5y

Cathythoughts @Crazeedi I‘m doing #booked2020 👍🏻 & I‘m going to make an attempt at #readingeurope 🤞🏻. And that‘s it ... and I know I‘ll get confused 🤷🏼‍♀️ but I‘ll give it a go 5y

erzascarletbookgasm That‘s so sweet of you Cathy, but that‘s too much! I can‘t have you do that, the postage costs will kill you! 😅But thank you, my friend. 😘 5y

erzascarletbookgasm How are you planning to read books from all over Europe @batsy if you‘re doing the challenge at all? 5y

batsy @erzascarletbookgasm I'll see if I can get them in print or Kindle, Jessie. I'm counting on having a few on my shelf from a previous #litsypassport challenge that never got off the ground. And if I can't access certain books, I'll just skip those countries. I'm planning a laid back challenge 😘 5y

batsy @erzascarletbookgasm If you're doing the challenge and I have a book that you want to read, I can send it to you too, we can work out a schedule 🙂 5y

erzascarletbookgasm @batsy That‘s a good idea, taking it as a laid back challenge. 👍❤️Hope you find some books from your previous challenge! 5y

Cathythoughts @batsy @erzascarletbookgasm yes! ExActly , a laid back challenge! I have no problem sending on a few books if ye need them 👍🏻❤️ 5y

batsy Thank you for offering Cathy, that's very kind of you ❤️❤️ I'm already doing "research" to see what books to use ... the best part ? 5y

Cathythoughts @batsy 👍🏻❤️❤️ 5y

erzascarletbookgasm @batsy Cathy thanks. I‘ll do some research too this weekend, will see if I have more books on Europe than I think I have. 👍 5y

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LibrarianChels

Land of Love and Ruins | Oddny Eir

bailed

My final #litsypassport book of the year and I bailed. Written in first person with a narrator who rambles and is unclear. I read 50 pages and give up trying to see if an understandable chapter will appear.

(P.S. Bjork is quoted on the cover as saying this author “can best express the female psyche of now.” The narrator is so confusing and unstable, and I hope to hell she‘s wrong.)

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LibrarianChels

Bitter Grounds: A Novel | Sandra Benitez

bailed

I can‘t get into this after 100 pages and there‘s no way I‘ll make it to 445. I like the storyline in theory, but there‘s almost too much detail and it‘s slowing down the rhythm. Second #litsypassport fail for me.

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Lcsmcat

Beyond Sleep | Willem Frederik Hermans

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I finished this amazing book during a #hurricaneparty with my daughter and her crew. (Pictured is grand-kitten Rick the Chick.) I really liked this Dutch novel and would never have known about it if not for #litsypassport!

LittleBug I‘m not even familiar with this book and I‘m Dutch🤣 6y

Lreads Rick the Chick! 😊 6y

Lcsmcat @LittleBug It was written in 1966, but not translated into English until 2006. 6y

LittleBug All the more reason I should have known it. 🙈 Sounds like something we would‘ve read in school... 6y

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LibrarianChels

Miss Ulysses from Puka-puka: The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter | Florence Frisbie

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It‘s incredible to think she wrote this as barely a teen. I guess beautiful storytelling comes naturally when you have a literary father and a Puka-Pukan mother. “Goodnight, Mama! O. K., Mama!” #litsypassport #CookIslands

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LibrarianChels

The Girl Who Fell to Earth | Sophia Al-Maria

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I grabbed this book for my #litsypassport July read, which featured Qatar. I had hoped for more cultural elements, but the book was too inside the author‘s head to get a solid feel for life there.

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Lcsmcat

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic

Ice on my bum knee, cat in my lap, and a new book to start. Perfect evening. #catsoflitsy #litsypassport

kspenmoll Sounds wonderful except that bum knee! 7y

Suzze Hope your knee improves! My knees always hurt, but you‘re right, a cat and a Book always help! 7y

Lcsmcat @kspenmoll @Suzze It‘s bothered me off and on since I did something stupid as a teenager some 40 years ago, so it‘ll be ok soon. 7y

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Literary_Siren Hope your knee gets better soon! I read this book in elementary school. I might have to reread it to refresh my memory. 7y

CouronneDhiver Oh, the bum knee club. Yep. I hear ya! 7y

Lcsmcat @Literary_Siren Thanks! I‘m so much older than you that I was watching the news of this war while nursing my first child. I wonder what difference that makes in the way I read it. 7y

Lcsmcat @CouronneDhiver It‘s a large club. 😀 7y

Literary_Siren You‘ll have to let us know! 7y

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LibrarianChels

Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival | Sara Tuvel Bernstein

“One of the American soldiers was carrying me. I closed my eyes again. ‘Is it raining again?‘ I thought. ‘No, we‘re inside now where it would not rain.‘ Then I realized that the soldier carrying me was crying, his tears falling on my face.” #feels #litsypassport

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BookishMe

Gingerbread | Robert Dinsdale

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Finally finished this atmospheric tale set in the dark #woods the day I returned home. Slow pace leads to a suspenseful climax. #CoolBooks #overdrive #librarybooks
A tale of surviving one's dark past, surviving grief and making a life in the deep forest. When the forest consumes family, the wild boy has to decide - keep his promise or leave the world of aspen, birch and nettles?
#LitWorld2018GB Belarus #LitsyPassport
#Booked2018 set outdoors

Cinfhen Congrats on all the boxes completed ✅ 7y

BookishMe @Cinfhen ermmm, Actually this is my first prompt completed for this quarter. So much to catch up with! 🙄😌😓 7y

Cinfhen No, I meant this book filled a lot of prompts!!! No worries for #booked2018 😘I bet you read books that might work without even realizing 😉 7y

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BookishMe @Cinfhen oh thanks! I had no clue this fit more than one prompt. Actually this wasn't even my choice for the environment until I read further into the story. While it is efficient to read a book for multiple prompts, I prefer the slow way of one book for each prompt - my goal is to read as many as possible ;D 7y

Linsy Sounds intriguing! 🌲 7y

BookishMe @Linsy it certainly is! The forest has never been so menacing yet nurturing 7y

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LibrarianChels

Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival | Sara Tuvel Bernstein

I‘ve picked some difficult books for #litsypassport, but this one might make me tear up.

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