Welcome to Round 3 of the Passport to the World VBB!

The Rules:

(1) I will post a list of books and the order of the box participants on the first of every other month.

(2) Each person may take as many books out of the box as they want; however, you must put in the same number of books. This means that you may be responsible for shipping the number of books that you have put in. You control how many books you are willing to ship by only taking out/putting in that number of books.

(3) Play may continue perpetually. You can choose to skip your turn by not taking any books out of the box and passing the turn on to the next person.

(4) Books that qualify for this bookbox are fiction, biographies, memoirs and travelogues set in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East or based on the experiences of immigrants from those locations. In essence, this vbb is meant to open doors to new cultural experiences. :D

(5) TBRs are allowed but the books should be mailed out within two months of being chosen (i.e. if a book is chosen September 15th, the book should be mailed out by November 15th).

(6) Any books not taken after 3 rounds will be replaced by the person who put the book in. (Asterisks are used to indicate how many rounds a book has been in the bookbox.)

(7) You have 48 hours from the time the person before you posts their move in the thread to make your move. If you haven't made your move in that amount of time, you will be skipped once. If you don't show up within 48 hours when your turn comes up again, you will be moved to the end of the list. If you don't show up at all for a round, you will be removed from the list for the next round. However, if you want to rejoin at any time, you will be free to do so.

(7) New participants are welcome and can join at any time! If we are in the middle of a round, they will be added to the end of the list. If we are between rounds, they will be randomized into the list like everyone else.

(8) The list of participants will be randomized every three rounds.

(9) Once you have chosen your books, please PM your address to the person whose books you have chosen.

(10) Once you've taken your turn, please PM the next person to let them know it's their turn. If you can't PM them for some reason, please say so when you post your move, so someone else can!

Passport to the World VBB - Round 3

Participant List

1. ri
2. hendertuckian
3. bibliotreker
4. sudokugirl
5. rebeccaljames
7. msjoanna
8. dancing-dog
9. azuki
10. teachie
11. morsecode
12. geishabird
13. shnedwards
14. luckaye
15. eicuthbertson
16. rootmartin
17. bartonz
18. zzz
19. hobbit
20. veganmedusa
21. tenneh


Ri - start us off!! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves



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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
**Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami (eicuthbertson)
**Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros [Mexico/America] (Bartonz)
**Middle Passages by Kamau Brathwaite [Poet from Barbados writing about African roots] (Bartonz)
**The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokogirl)
**Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [China] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
**China Cry: The Nora Lam Story by Nora Lam, Richard H. Schneider [China] (Tribefan)
**Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
**Namma: A Tibetan Love Story by Kate Karko [Tibet] (rootmartin)
**Tenko by Anthony Masters [Japan] (luckaye)
**The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
*The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan [India] (dancing-dog)
**Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
**Rickshaw Boy by Lau Shaw (rootmartin)
*Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord [China] (bibliotreker)
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye)
*The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Embracing the Dragon: A Woman's Journey Along the Great Wall of China by Polly Greeks [China] TBR (VeganMedusa)
*Geisha: The secret history of a vanishing world by Lesley Downer [Japan] (eicuthbertson)

Africa
*Chaka (African Writers Series) by Thomas Mofolo (Lesotho) TBR (Bartonz)
**Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (eicuthbertson)
**Congo by Michael Crichton (rootmartin)
**Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
**Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
**Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo [Caribbean] (eicuthbertson)
*The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
**Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
**The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
*Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
** The Brave Bulls by Tom Lea (rootmartin)
**The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela [Mexico] (rootmartin)
**One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)

The Middle East and North Africa
**A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)
**The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
*Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)
**Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)
*Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
*Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)


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Books Out Of Play This Round

Hi folks! We're up and running again! :dance2:

I'm going to randomize the order after this round so round 4's order will be new.

Also, books from round 2 should be mailed off to the recipient within two months of when it was chosen (so likely by the end of this round of the vbb.) If you've already mailed and/or received books, please post on the books out of play thread if you haven't already.

Thanks! :lol:

Hi

Could I join in? I love books like this. If I'm at the end of the list maybe I can get a couple read before my turn so they won't have to be TBR!! :lol:

Thanks!

:erm: I'm so behind with my reading. (I've sent one; two to go) I'll do my best to read/ship them ASAP but I can't promise. Also I've been warned to avoid sending in Dec because of Holidays post craziness (I'm not using this as an excuse).

No problem! Glad that you're joining in. :dance:

I added you at the end of the list.

No worries.... I am just starting tonight the book that I owe you from the Asian swap so I know how the TBR pile can get. :wacko:

For this vbb, I'm just aiming for everyone to make a good effort so that we don't end up in a situation where there are books owed from 10 rounds ago. :unsure:

I know that I'm always tempted to remove tons of books :giggle: but have to restrain myself as I know that I can't necessarily read all of them at the speed that would be necessary considering other books in my TBR. That said, I'll likely be doing lots of speed reading anyways as I'll have a number of books to replace this round. :blink: :lol:

I am just about finished 'The Red Queen' so I will probably sent within the next couple of days to catch Azuki whilst she is in Hong Kong - cheaper to send to there than USA! LOL

I would like to drop out of this box for the time being. I may join again when life slows down a little bit.

did Ri get a PM? It might be a good idea to add a message to the bottom of the round 2 thread (or books out of play) that rounnd 3 has started

I'm just noticing that there are lots of great books in this box that have to be replaced this time around. I, at least, would love to see many of these same unclaimed books resurface in later rounds even if they're cycled out now. In other words, just because your book didn't get picked right away, I don't think you should decide never to offer it again...

There have just been so many good books in this box that I can't pull all of the interesting ones every time...

You are so right! It was always a hard choice, I would have taken a lot more books if I didn't have to keep check of how many I can read and how much I can afford to ship out.

:ditto:

There are probably about 10-12 books currently in the box that I would love to read but simply can't choose at this time; alas, one must restrain oneself! :P Everyone has contributed a wonderful variety of books.

Maybe we ought to raise it to 3 round before books need to be replaced? :shrug:

Yep, I PMed her when I made the list. Since it's been two days, I'll move on to the next person in line and drop Ri down to the bottom. I hope she's doing fine.

I'll put a note on the Books out of play thread, too.

Since there is some interest in this, let's go ahead and try it with 3 rounds. If it turns out that too many books are languishing in the vbb for too long, I reserve the right to switch it back to two rounds. I will edit the rules to reflect the 3 round approach now.

And, each participant can replace their own books on their turn at any time. I will likely replace a couple of my books this round that I don't think will be chosen.

Thanks all for engaging in this discussion. :rolleyes:

Passport to the World VBB - Round 3

Participant List

2. hendertuckian
3. bibliotreker
4. sudokugirl
7. msjoanna
8. dancing-dog
9. azuki
10. teachie
11. morsecode
12. geishabird
13. shnedwards
14. luckaye
15. eicuthbertson
16. rootmartin
17. bartonz
18. zzz
19. hobbit
20. veganmedusa
21. tenneh
1. ri


Hendertuckian - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves



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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
**Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami (eicuthbertson)
**Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros [Mexico/America] (Bartonz)
**Middle Passages by Kamau Brathwaite [Poet from Barbados writing about African roots] (Bartonz)
**The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokogirl)
**Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [China] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
**China Cry: The Nora Lam Story by Nora Lam, Richard H. Schneider [China] (Tribefan)
**Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
**Namma: A Tibetan Love Story by Kate Karko [Tibet] (rootmartin)
**Tenko by Anthony Masters [Japan] (luckaye)
**The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
*The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan [India] (dancing-dog)
**Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
**Rickshaw Boy by Lau Shaw (rootmartin)
*Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord [China] (bibliotreker)
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye)
*The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Embracing the Dragon: A Woman's Journey Along the Great Wall of China by Polly Greeks [China] TBR (VeganMedusa)
*Geisha: The secret history of a vanishing world by Lesley Downer [Japan] (eicuthbertson)

Africa
*Chaka (African Writers Series) by Thomas Mofolo (Lesotho) TBR (Bartonz)
**Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (eicuthbertson)
**Congo by Michael Crichton (rootmartin)
**Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
**Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
**Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo [Caribbean] (eicuthbertson)
*The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
**Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
**The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
*Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
** The Brave Bulls by Tom Lea (rootmartin)
**The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela [Mexico] (rootmartin)
**One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)

The Middle East and North Africa
**A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)
**The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
*Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)
**Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)
*Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
*Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)


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Books Out Of Play This Round

Hope you can join us again soon. Please be sure to mark on the books out of the play thread when you mail the books that you owe from the last round. Thanks! :)

Hey RootMartin - if it's still on the list when it gets to you, keep **Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [China] (rootmartin) for me :giggle:

Will do! :wink:

I'd like to pass this round. It just too busy right now with the holidays.

I'm trying to get through Mount TBR for Olympic Challenge so I two will pass.

Passport to the World VBB - Round 3

Participant List

2. hendertuckian
3. bibliotreker
4. sudokugirl
7. msjoanna
8. dancing-dog
9. azuki
10. teachie
11. morsecode
12. geishabird
13. shnedwards
14. luckaye
15. eicuthbertson
16. rootmartin
17. bartonz
18. zzz
19. hobbit
20. veganmedusa
21. tenneh
1. ri


Sudokugirl - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves



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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
**Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami (eicuthbertson)
**Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros [Mexico/America] (Bartonz)
**Middle Passages by Kamau Brathwaite [Poet from Barbados writing about African roots] (Bartonz)
**The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokogirl)
**Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [China] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
**China Cry: The Nora Lam Story by Nora Lam, Richard H. Schneider [China] (Tribefan)
**Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
**Namma: A Tibetan Love Story by Kate Karko [Tibet] (rootmartin)
**Tenko by Anthony Masters [Japan] (luckaye)
**The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
*The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan [India] (dancing-dog)
**Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
**Rickshaw Boy by Lau Shaw (rootmartin)
*Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord [China] (bibliotreker)
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye)
*The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Embracing the Dragon: A Woman's Journey Along the Great Wall of China by Polly Greeks [China] TBR (VeganMedusa)
*Geisha: The secret history of a vanishing world by Lesley Downer [Japan] (eicuthbertson)

Africa
*Chaka (African Writers Series) by Thomas Mofolo (Lesotho) TBR (Bartonz)
**Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (eicuthbertson)
**Congo by Michael Crichton (rootmartin)
**Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
**Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
**Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo [Caribbean] (eicuthbertson)
*The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
**Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
**The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
*Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
** The Brave Bulls by Tom Lea (rootmartin)
**The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela [Mexico] (rootmartin)
**One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)

The Middle East and North Africa
**A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)
**The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
*Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)
**Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)
*Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
*Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)


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Books Out Of Play This Round

:pm: to sudokugirl

Passport to the World VBB - Round 3

Participant List

2. hendertuckian
3. bibliotreker
4. sudokugirl
7. msjoanna
8. dancing-dog
9. azuki
10. teachie
11. morsecode
12. geishabird
13. shnedwards
14. luckaye
15. eicuthbertson
16. rootmartin
17. bartonz
18. zzz
19. hobbit
20. veganmedusa
21. tenneh
1. ri


msjoanna - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

sudokugirl takes out:
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye)
**Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (eicuthbertson)

sudokugirl puts in:
The Scissor Man by Jean Arnold
The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India]



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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
**Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami (eicuthbertson)
**Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros [Mexico/America] (Bartonz)
**Middle Passages by Kamau Brathwaite [Poet from Barbados writing about African roots] (Bartonz)
**The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
**Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [China] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
**China Cry: The Nora Lam Story by Nora Lam, Richard H. Schneider [China] (Tribefan)
**Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
**Namma: A Tibetan Love Story by Kate Karko [Tibet] (rootmartin)
**Tenko by Anthony Masters [Japan] (luckaye)
**The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
*The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan [India] (dancing-dog)
**Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
**Rickshaw Boy by Lau Shaw (rootmartin)
*Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord [China] (bibliotreker)
*The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Embracing the Dragon: A Woman's Journey Along the Great Wall of China by Polly Greeks [China] TBR (VeganMedusa)
*Geisha: The secret history of a vanishing world by Lesley Downer [Japan] (eicuthbertson)
The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)

Africa
*Chaka (African Writers Series) by Thomas Mofolo (Lesotho) TBR (Bartonz)
**Congo by Michael Crichton (rootmartin)
**Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
**Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
**Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo [Caribbean] (eicuthbertson)
*The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
**Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
**The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
*Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
** The Brave Bulls by Tom Lea (rootmartin)
**The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela [Mexico] (rootmartin)
**One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
The Scissor Man by Jean Arnold (sudokugirl)

The Middle East and North Africa
**A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)
**The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
*Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)
**Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)
*Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
*Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)


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Books Out Of Play This Round
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye ---> sudokugirl)
**Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (eicuthbertson ---> sudokugirl)

:pm: to msjoanna.

Sorry I was MIA, everyone! I wasn't around this weekend - work and travel. Then earlier this week I was trying to get all of my holiday errands done before the snow storm hit last night! We are snowed in now so I can catch up and bake up a storm for our holiday Open House! Sorry for making everyone wait! :blush:

Much as I hate to do it, I think I should skip this round. I still have a book outstanding from the last round and a fairly large stack of owed TBRs.

I'll PM dancing-dog.

Got the PM - will decide in the next hour or so :D

:giggle: you'll play before she does (rootmartin is behind you on the list)

Passport to the World VBB - Round 3

Participant List

2. hendertuckian
3. bibliotreker
4. sudokugirl
7. msjoanna
8. dancing-dog
9. azuki
10. teachie
11. morsecode
12. geishabird
13. shnedwards
14. luckaye
15. eicuthbertson
16. rootmartin
17. bartonz
18. zzz
19. hobbit
20. veganmedusa
21. tenneh
1. ri


azuki - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

sudokugirl takes out:
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye)
**Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (eicuthbertson)

sudokugirl puts in:
The Scissor Man by Jean Arnold
The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India]

missjoanna reluctantly skips

dancing-dog takes out:
**Tenko by Anthony Masters [Japan] (luckaye)
*Geisha: The secret history of a vanishing world by Lesley Downer [Japan] (eicuthbertson)

dancing-dog puts in:
A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)


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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
**Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami (eicuthbertson)
**Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros [Mexico/America] (Bartonz)
**Middle Passages by Kamau Brathwaite [Poet from Barbados writing about African roots] (Bartonz)
**The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
**Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [China] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
**China Cry: The Nora Lam Story by Nora Lam, Richard H. Schneider [China] (Tribefan)
**Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
**Namma: A Tibetan Love Story by Kate Karko [Tibet] (rootmartin)
**The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
*The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan [India] (dancing-dog)
**Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
**Rickshaw Boy by Lau Shaw (rootmartin)
*Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord [China] (bibliotreker)
*The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Embracing the Dragon: A Woman's Journey Along the Great Wall of China by Polly Greeks [China] TBR (VeganMedusa)
The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)

Africa
A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*Chaka (African Writers Series) by Thomas Mofolo (Lesotho) TBR (Bartonz)
**Congo by Michael Crichton (rootmartin)
**Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
**Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
**Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo [Caribbean] (eicuthbertson)
*The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
**Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
**The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
*Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
** The Brave Bulls by Tom Lea (rootmartin)
**The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela [Mexico] (rootmartin)
**One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
The Scissor Man by Jean Arnold (sudokugirl)

The Middle East and North Africa
**A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)
**The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
*Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)
**Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)
*Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
*Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)


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Books Out Of Play This Round
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye ---> sudokugirl)
**Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (eicuthbertson ---> sudokugirl)
**Tenko by Anthony Masters [Japan] (luckaye --> dancing-dog)
*Geisha: The secret history of a vanishing world by Lesley Downer [Japan] (eicuthbertson --> dancing-dog)

It was a hard choice - there are a lot of great books.

:pm: to azuki

Books need to be replaced after 3 rounds, right?

Just wanted to double-check since I have a ** one in there right now :)

Yep - we decided to extend it to 3 rounds so you're good this round. :D

Ok :)

16. rootmartin
17. bartonz

uh... I always thought 16 came before 17 :whistle:

OK I'm an idiot ... officially :blink: (should I start worrying for my metal health :erm:)

I would worry more for your mental health .... :giggle:

:rofl: , you're ok zzz, it's just that busy time of year.

Today I told the lady at the sandwich shop that she hadn't given me my lemonade while I was holding it in my hand!! Now that's a little embarassing *slinks away*

Morning all, I will be back after school. There are a few books I fancy so it doesn't matter which azuki takes, I will still be happy with my choice. :wink: