Welcome to Round 5 of the Passport to the World VBB!

Please read the rules carefully as I have modified them to reflect current "standard practices." Please PM me if you have any questions.

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) All books should be mailed out within 6 months. Participants who have owed books for more than 6 months may not remove books from the box except to replace their own books.

(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 moved to the end of the list.

(8) New participants are welcome and can join at any time! They will be added to the end of the list and then randomized into the list the next time the list is mixed up.

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

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

(11) 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 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

Shnedwards - where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves


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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
**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)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)

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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
***Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode)
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)




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Books Out Of Play This Round

:pm: to shnedwards.

Until I updated this, i didn't realize that I'm 2nd! :bananadance: So, I'm off to check out all the books. :drool:

Yay! I'm so ready to travel!

eicuthbertson -- if nobody has picked this by your turn, I'd be happy to do so if you leave it in :)

***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)

Bartonz!!! :whip:

That's a book that I was just looking at!!!!! :rofl:

Well then I guess I'll just have to wait until you put it in again :D

Settling in to wait for my turn...I love this box -- so many great books.

Hello everyone! :wave:

Such a lovely list of books! I will have to be restrained, though. I will take
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl)

and replace it with Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [TBR]

Is it OK to put this in the box again? I know someone else put this in before. Let me know if not and I'll dig out something else.

I'll be back to do the update shortly after I've given the shnedling her eyedrops. Unless someone beats me to it!

It is no problem at all to put in a book that made an appearance before. We just wouldn't want two of the same book in at once.

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

rootmartin - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards takes
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)

shnedwards adds
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
**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)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
***Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode)
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)




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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)

:pm: to rootmartin

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

Luckaye - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards takes
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)

shnedwards adds
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

rootmartin replaces
***Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)

with

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

rootmartin removes
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)

rootmartin adds
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria]
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US]


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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

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)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)




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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)

Hi! I am going to pass this month as I need to catch up on some mailing, not to mention it is birthday/anniversary season here for my family and money is a tad tight! See you all next round :)

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

Geishabird - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards takes
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)

shnedwards adds
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

rootmartin replaces
***Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)

with

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

rootmartin removes
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)

rootmartin adds
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria]
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US]

luckaye skips

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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

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)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)




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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)

Sorry, sorry, forgot all about it... :bash:

I'm going to skip this round; could someone pls update - have to be away from computer @ work this morning - thanks...

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

Teachie - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards takes
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)

shnedwards adds
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

rootmartin replaces
***Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)

with

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

rootmartin removes
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)

rootmartin adds
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria]
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US]

luckaye skips


geishabird skips


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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

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)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)




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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

veganmedusa- Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards takes
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)

shnedwards adds
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

rootmartin replaces
***Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)

with

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

rootmartin removes
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)

rootmartin adds
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria]
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US]

luckaye skips


geishabird skips

teachie replaces
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)

with
Small Island by Andrea Levy (teachie)


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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Small Island by Andrea Levy [Jamaica/UK] (teachie)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

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)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)




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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

Hobbit - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

shnedwards takes
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)

shnedwards adds
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]

rootmartin replaces
***Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (rootmartin)

with

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

rootmartin removes
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson)

rootmartin adds
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria]
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US]

luckaye skips


geishabird skips

teachie replaces
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)

with
Small Island by Andrea Levy (teachie)

VeganMedusa takes out
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

VeganMedusa puts in
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)


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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Small Island by Andrea Levy [Jamaica/UK] (teachie)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)

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)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)





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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz --> VeganMedusa)

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

Sudokogirl - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

luckaye skips
geishabird skips

teachie replaces
***Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody [Iran] (teachie)

with
Small Island by Andrea Levy (teachie)

VeganMedusa takes out
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

VeganMedusa puts in
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)

hobbit removes
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl)

hobbit puts in
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)
Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)


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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Small Island by Andrea Levy [Jamaica/UK] (teachie)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)

Africa
*Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
**A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)





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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz --> VeganMedusa)
*Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl --> hobbit)

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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

Ri - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

VeganMedusa takes out
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

VeganMedusa puts in
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)

hobbit removes
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl)

hobbit puts in
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)
Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)

sudokugirl takes out
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

sudokugirl puts in
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan]
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India/US]

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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Small Island by Andrea Levy [Jamaica/UK] (teachie)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India/US] (sudokugirl)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (sudokugirl)

Africa
*Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
**A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)




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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz --> VeganMedusa)
*Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl --> hobbit)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker --> sudokugirl)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin --> sudokugirl)

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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


Bibliotreker - Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

VeganMedusa takes out
***Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi [Iran] (VeganMedusa)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz)

VeganMedusa puts in
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)

hobbit removes
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl)

hobbit puts in
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)
Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)

sudokugirl takes out
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

sudokugirl puts in
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan]
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India/US]

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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Small Island by Andrea Levy [Jamaica/UK] (teachie)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India/US] (sudokugirl)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (sudokugirl)

Africa
*Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
**A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*Qatari Women: Past and Present [Qatar] (hobbit)




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Books Out Of Play This Round
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] (morsecode --> rootmartin)
**Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai [India] (eicuthbertson --> rootmartin)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz --> VeganMedusa)
*Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl --> hobbit)
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker --> sudokugirl)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin --> sudokugirl)

:pm: to bibliotreker

Here goes:

Removing/Replacing: The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes

Adding: Immigrant Voices edited by Gordon Hutner (immigrant experience, various cultures to America)
All That Matters by Wayson Choy (immigrant experience, Chinese-Canadian)

Choosing: Small Island by Andrea Levy (Carribean)
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Africa)

biblioteker

:D

Will e-mail eicuthbertson.

Thanks for bumping me, Root. So sorry for the delay!! :blush: I'll be passing this round since I am trying to deal with finding a new place to live, get our house packed up and then move to a new city! All is falling into place, but it is leaving me little time to be bookobsessed! :rolleyes:

Passport to the World VBB - Round 5

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

Please check the Passport to the World Books out of Play and make sure that it's up to date.

If you have books that have not been mailed from Rounds 1 and 2, please refrain from removing books from the vbb until they are mailed.

Participant List

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


Eicuthbertson- Grab your passport! Where would you like to travel?


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Recent Moves

hobbit removes
***The Confession and Other Stories by Julian Maka'a [Solomon Islands] (hobbit)
*Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World by Ngangur Mbitu, Ranchor Prime (sudokugirl)

hobbit puts in
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)
Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)

sudokugirl takes out
*The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (bibliotreker)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (rootmartin)

sudokugirl puts in
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan]
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India/US]

bibliotreker takes out
***The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes TBR (bibliotreker)
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] (TBR VeganMedusa)

bibliotreker puts in
Immigrant Voices: Twenty-four voices on becoming an American by Gordon Hunter
All That Matters by Wayson Choy

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Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
All That Matters by Wayson Choy (bibliotreker)
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (rootmartin)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna)
*Children of the Pearl by Ching Yun Bezine [China] (dancing-dog)
*Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker)
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (rootmartin)
*The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (sudokugirl)
Immigrant Voices: Twenty-four voices on becoming an American by Gordon Hunter (bibliotreker)
*Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards)
*Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen [China] (dancing-dog)
**Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz)
*Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode)
Small Island by Andrea Levy [Jamaica/UK] (teachie)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin)
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit)
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India/US] (sudokugirl)

Asia/Oceania
*Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill [Laos] (eicuthbertson)
**A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski [Vietnam] (dancing-dog)
*The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim [Singapore] (hendertuckian)
*The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian)
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (dancing-dog)
**First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung [Cambodia] TBR (Bartonz)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna)
*Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl)
*Song of the Cuckoo Bird by Amulya Malladi [India] (eicuthbertson)
*They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel [Samoa] (hendertuckian)
*White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong] (Bartonz)
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [China] (shnedwards) [TBR]
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan [India] (TBR VeganMedusa)
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (sudokugirl)

Africa
*Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (geishabird)
**A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog)
*The Fortunes of Wangrim by Amadou Hampate Ba [Mali] (hobbit)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Nigeria] (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)
*Nest in Cage by Foluke Ogunleye [Swaziland] (Bartonz)

Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival by Esaie Toingar [Chad] (TBR Hobbit)

Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (teachie) Caribbean
*The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada [Honduras] (hendertuckian)
*Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau [Barbados] (hendertuckian)


The Middle East and North Africa
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki)
***Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry Thurston [Egypt] (eicuthbertson)
*