Welcome to Round 4 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 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

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

shnedwards - 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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)


Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)
***The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)


Africa
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
***Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
***Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)


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


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Books Out Of Play This Round

Hi all!

We're off and running again. Please remember to check the Passport to the World - Books out of Play thread to make sure that you don't owe any books from past rounds.

This round, all of the *** books need to be replaced.

ETA: I randomized the list so that's why everyone has new spots!

:pm: to shnedwards

Have fun! :D

We are going to be gone from Feb. 11 to Feb. 16 - going to Guatemala to pick up our new son!! :bananadance:

That shouldn't be a problem since I am last but wanted to let everyone know. :D

Wow! Congratulations.

I'll second that! What wonderful news!!!! :dance2:

Triple it! That is fantastic! Give us details! What is his name? How old is he? This is so exciting to have another BO little one!

Eeep! Please could I be bumped down while I get organised? :bash:

:wave: You've got 2 days! :D There's no hurry. I'll PM you but if you don't think that you can check back in within 2 days, I'll bump you down. :)

He is 6 1/2 years old and his name is Trevor. He has an enlarged heart and heart murmur due to severe malnutrition. We visited in June and he is a real sweetie!! We adopted a boy from China - home May 2006 that is 6 months older than Trevor, so they should have fun together. :D

So happy for you!! Tell him all the "bookworm aunties" here say hi!!

Thanks rootmartin! Panic over! :D
I'll just replace
***Quarantine by Jim Crace
with

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal [Immigrant Experiences] [TBR]

(PS. Congratulations to tenneh! Wishing you all every happiness together!)

rootmartin -- if you leave these two in the box and they're still available on my turn, I'll pull them. Of course, if someone else wants to take them before my turn, by all means please do (but then consider rereleasing them here later...)

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***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)

oh sure <_<

PS
:hmm: This is actually the case with huge majority of the books that are in the box at the moment

Msjoanna - I will definitely leave them in...... thanks! It makes my life much easier to replace a smaller number this round.

I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow latest to do my update. Life is crazy right now! :wacko:

Rootmartin - dear me! You put in so many books to get this vbb started that I'd recommend we give you a round of amnesty on half of what you need to replace. I daresay many of those books will be selected soon anyway.

:hug:

:ditto2: :D

:ditto2: :ditto2:

:ditto:

I'll see what I have in my stores. I could probably replace some of yours! :teehee:

I can help you out with a book or two like I did last round, if you like. :D

Thank you all for your kind offers.... :hug:

I actually have plenty of books that fit but I just was looking to avoid increasing my owed TBR pile significantly. But, I won't have a problem at all this round!

And, I'm sorry that I've taken a while updating. It's just been crazy around here and I'm exhausted. :wacko:

So, if you see any huge issues with my update, just let me know!

- Melissa

Passport to the World VBB - Round 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

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

luckaye - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards replaced

***Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)

with

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal [Immigrant Experiences]


rootmartin replaced

***Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
***Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
***A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)

with

I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

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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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)
***The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)


Africa
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)


The Middle East and North Africa
**Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*I, The Divine by Rabih Alamenddine [Lebanon/United States] (eicuthbertson)
**Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
**Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
***Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)


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Books Out Of Play This Round

I am going to pass this round - I need to get caught up on my reading & mailing :blush:

Passport to the World VBB - Round 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

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

geishabird - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards replaced

***Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)

with

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal [Immigrant Experiences]


rootmartin replaced

***Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
***Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
***A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)

with

I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

luckaye skips this round

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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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)
***The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)


Africa
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)


The Middle East and North Africa
**Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*I, The Divine by Rabih Alamenddine [Lebanon/United States] (eicuthbertson)
**Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
**Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
***Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)


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Books Out Of Play This Round

Passport to the World VBB - Round 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

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

teachie - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards replaced

***Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)

with

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal [Immigrant Experiences]


rootmartin replaced

***Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
***Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
***A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)

with

I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

luckaye skips this round

geisha replaces

***The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
with
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd



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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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)


Africa
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)


The Middle East and North Africa
**Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*I, The Divine by Rabih Alamenddine [Lebanon/United States] (eicuthbertson)
**Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
**Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
***Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)

:pm: to teachie

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Books Out Of Play This Round

Thanks for the pm geishabird. I will be back after school to have a look and change my book.

Passport to the World VBB - Round 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

1. shnedwards
2. rootmartin
3. luckaye
4. geishabird
5. teachie
6. zzz
7. veganmedusa8. hobbit
9. sudokugirl
10. ri
11. hendertuckian
12. bibliotreker
13. eicuthbertson
14. msjoanna
15. azuki
16. bartonz
17. dancing-dog
18. morsecode
19. tenneh

Zzz - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards replaced

***Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)

with

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal [Immigrant Experiences]


rootmartin replaced

***Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
***Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
***A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)

with

I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

luckaye skips this round

geisha replaces

***The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
with
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd

teachie replaces
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)

with

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie)



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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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)


Africa
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)


The Middle East and North Africa
**Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*I, The Divine by Rabih Alamenddine [Lebanon/United States] (eicuthbertson)
**Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
**Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
***Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)

:pm: to zzz

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Books Out Of Play This Round

What's that slit-eyed smiley supposed to mean? :whip: :whip:

Just so I don't hold things up, I'll let y'all know that I'm skipping this round (will have to read something for next round).

Passport to the World VBB - Round 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

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

Hobbit - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards replaced

***Quarantine by Jim Crace (shnedwards)

with

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal [Immigrant Experiences]


rootmartin replaced

***Elegy for a Revolutionary by CJ Driver (rootmartin)
***Gabriela Mistral: a reader by Isabel Allende (rootmartin)
***A Traveler on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell (rootmartin)

with

I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

luckaye skips this round

geisha replaces

***The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)
with
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd

teachie replaces
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)

with

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie)

Veganmedusa skips this round.


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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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)


Africa
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)


The Middle East and North Africa
**Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*I, The Divine by Rabih Alamenddine [Lebanon/United States] (eicuthbertson)
**Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
**Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
***Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)

:pm: to hobbit

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Books Out Of Play This Round

Replace
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)

with
The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)


Take
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)

Add
Two Lands, New Visions edited by Janice Kulyk Keefer & Solomea Pavlychko [Ukraine+immigrant experiences] (hobbit)
The Orphan Calf and the Magical Cheetah by children of Namibia [Namibia] (hobbit)


(eta)

I've PMed sudokugirl.

Also, I recognize that my two adds could be considered borderline and I'm happy to replace them with tbrs if there are objections to considering Ukraine in Asia, or to including a book written largely by children which includes stories (fiction) but also art & essays.

Passport to the World VBB - Round 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

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

Ri - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

geisha replaces
***The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [India] (geishabird)

with
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd


teachie replaces
***Chinese Stories from the fifties by E.Guijun [China] (teachie)

with

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie)


Veganmedusa skips


hobbit replaces/takes:
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)

and puts in:
The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
Two Lands, New Visions edited by Janice Kulyk Keefer & Solomea Pavlychko [Ukraine+immigrant experiences] (hobbit)
The Orphan Calf and the Magical Cheetah by children of Namibia [Namibia] (hobbit)


sudokugirl replaces/takes:
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)

and puts in:
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan [Immigrant Experiences]
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan]
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan]
Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime [Africa]

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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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
Two Lands, New Visions edited by Janice Kulyk Keefer & Solomea Pavlychko [Ukraine+immigrant experiences] (hobbit)

Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl)
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)

Africa
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl)
The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
The Orphan Calf and the Magical Cheetah by children of Namibia [Namibia] (hobbit)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
**Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*I, The Divine by Rabih Alamenddine [Lebanon/United States] (eicuthbertson)
**Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
**Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
***Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)

:pm: to ri

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Books Out Of Play This Round
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker ---> hobbit)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin ---> hobbit)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards ---> sudokugirl)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet] (teachie ---> sudokugirl)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz ---> sudokugirl)

There, I hope I didn't mess anything up :)

Also, I don't see how Ukraine could be considered an Asian country, but it's obviously up to rootmartin to decide on the criteria (maybe immigrant experiences in general are accepted into the box?).

Thanks to everyone for putting in such interesting titles, I'm very happy with the selection :)

Excellent job, sudokugirl! Thanks for doing the update.

I have to agree with you that I wouldn't put Ukraine in the Asian category. I'll PM hobbit on it. And, I do like the immigrant experiences to be immigrants from the countries who fit the other criteria for the box.

:blush: I completely forgot about this one. Sorry :blush:

(whee! I didn't know I could use my mother tongue to communicate with sudokugirl :flip: )

:blush:
Yeah, sorry about Ukraine - I rechecked the rules only after I'd offered it. Please ignore that and we'll use ...

Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)

So many good ones in here, but I promised myself not to offer tbrs in vbbs... :blush:

I'll pass until next round.

No one mentioned PMing hendertuckian to let her know it's her turn, so I've just done that.

Hi all!

Thanks for keeping this running while I was away for the weekend and wasn't on the computer as much. :grouphug:

Passport to the World VBB - Round 4

All books with *** need to be replaced on the player's turn in this round.

Participant List

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

Hendertuckian - Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves


hobbit replaces/takes:
***One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Columbia] (hobbit)
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin)

and puts in:
The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)
The Orphan Calf and the Magical Cheetah by children of Namibia [Namibia] (hobbit)


sudokugirl replaces/takes:
***The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan [China] (sudokugirl)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet](teachie)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz)

and puts in:
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan [Immigrant Experiences]
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan]
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan]
Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime [Africa]

ri skips

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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)
*Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [India/US] (geishabird)
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)


Asia/Oceania
*A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*A Son of the Circusby John Irving (azuki)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya [India] (Tribefan)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye)
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)
*Out by Natsuo Kirino [Japan] (azuki)
**The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl)
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)

Africa
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
*A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl)
The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
*July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird)
*Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh)
*Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh)
The Orphan Calf and the Magical Cheetah by children of Namibia [Namibia] (hobbit)
***Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies [Zimbabwe] (morsecode)
**Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
***Tsotsi: a novel by Athol Fugard (rootmartin)
*When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head[Botswana] TBR (tenneh)

Latin America and the Caribbean
**Running the Amazon by Joe Kane [Brazil] (rootmartin)
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
**The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
**Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*I, The Divine by Rabih Alamenddine [Lebanon/United States] (eicuthbertson)
**Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
**Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
**Snow by Orhan Pamuk [Turkey] (hobbit)
***The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua (rootmartin)
***Whirlwind by James Clavell (hendertuckian)
Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)

:pm: to hendertuckian

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Books Out Of Play This Round
***Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal [China] (Bibliotreker ---> hobbit)
I, Rigoberta Menchu edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray [Guatemala] (rootmartin ---> hobbit)
*Karma Cola by Gita Mehta [India] [TBR] (shnedwards ---> sudokugirl)
*Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet] (teachie ---> sudokugirl)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (zzz ---> sudokugirl)