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message 1: by Cheryl (new)

Cheryl (bookaddict4real) | 14 comments I believe this challenge is from the dreadlock girl's blog originally . You are supposed to read
8 books from authors who come from 8 different countries. I have did Ethiopia and reading a Russian
author. so anyone with suggeastions for fiction
books from people of different countries I am game!
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message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

I signed up for Orbis Terrarum. I haven't really worked on it. I need to go see what's up on my blog. The Boy Next Door would fit. It takes place in Africa. Oh, I've got to go get organized again.


message 3: by Hazel (new)

Hazel | 191 comments Literary fiction from Trinidad and Tobago: try Earl Lovelace, Derek Walcott, . Romance novelist Simona Taylor writes literary novels as Roslyn Carrington. The author of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle was born in Trinidad.


message 4: by Cheryl (new)

Cheryl (bookaddict4real) | 14 comments Dont feel bad about not being organized I've misplaced
my book by the Russian writer I have a book from a German writer that was translated into English that will have to count and Hazel thank you for the suggestions I had read "underneath the Lion's gaze"
but that was befor the challenge started so thanks for
sharing those


message 5: by jo (new)

jo | 1031 comments Call Me by Your Name: jewish egyptian author, set in italy.


message 6: by Cheryl (new)

Cheryl (bookaddict4real) | 14 comments thanks Jo and I did find my russian book It's the day in the life of ivan desonivich


message 7: by jo (new)

jo | 1031 comments ivan denisovich is a good one, cheryl!


message 8: by Cheryl (new)

Cheryl (bookaddict4real) | 14 comments Yeah I am glad i started the challenge with him it really made me think about that period of time in a different way


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