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message 1: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
I am still reading Könige der ersten Nacht Roman by Bernhard Hennen
They besiege Milano...


message 2: by Chana (new)

Chana | 30 comments My character is in a place called "here" because she is missing.


message 3: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
Feodora wrote: "I am still reading Könige der ersten Nacht Roman by Bernhard Hennen
They besiege Milano..."

Now the three knights have arrived in Byzantium, Constantinople or now Istanbul...


message 4: by Nancy (new)

Nancy Brady (minesayn) | 162 comments right now, the book I'm reading the main characters are by the sea...but can't tell exactly where the seaside is (California or the East Coast or maybe even the coast of England)


message 5: by Paula (new)

Paula | 72 comments My main character is in Paradise, Colorado running a candy shop left to her by her Aunt when she died. I'm reading "Candy Apple Dead" Sammi Carter Candy Apple Dead (A Candy Shop Mystery, #1) by Sammi Carter


message 6: by Feodora (last edited Jan 05, 2011 05:27AM) (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
My new character is a woman in her early forties; no longer satisfied with her life. She lives in London.

Mrs Zhivago of Queens Park by Olivia Lichtenstein


message 7: by Paula (new)

Paula | 72 comments My main character is in Massachusetts. She is a professor at Harvard of English. Still Alice by Lisa Genova


message 8: by [deleted user] (last edited Jan 05, 2011 01:25PM) (new)

My main character is in hospital in the north of Italy. He is an American driving ambulances in the first World War and his company has just been bombed.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

(and I must confess that I still can't see why Hemingway is considered a brilliant writer... pretty flat I think)


message 9: by Dorothy (new)

Dorothy  (vilette) | 59 comments Hello..I've just joined this group. In the book I've just finished my main character was in Crosby, Maine.
In the book I am listening to my main character is in Addis Ababa


message 10: by Feodora (last edited Jan 07, 2011 01:44AM) (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
The Character of my just started book is in Israel, working as an Archaeologist in Qumran ( חירבת קומראן‎ )

The second Messiah is originally written in english, but funny enough the german edition is already published but the english will follow only in August this year.
Der zweite Messias: Thriller
Der zweite Messias Thriller by Glenn Meade


message 11: by Chana (new)

Chana | 30 comments My character is in Burgdorf Germany. She is 18 years old and a dwarf. She is German and the year is 1934. The world is heading for disaster.


message 12: by Cathy (new)

Cathy  (cathepsut) My character has just entered a very creepy forrest in Faerie... Before she had that very bad idea, she was in the desert outside of Las Vegas.


message 13: by Cathy (last edited Jan 09, 2011 04:58AM) (new)

Cathy  (cathepsut) Hayes wrote: "I must confess that I still can't see why Hemingway is considered a brilliant writer... pretty flat I think"

Keep going, he'll grow on you (maybe). I like his sparse writing -- nothing froufrou, just straight to the point, clean and direct...


message 14: by [deleted user] (last edited Jan 11, 2011 11:47PM) (new)

On the floor of a barn in Yorkshire. I'm re-reading (for the bazillionth time, although the last must have been 40 years ago) All Creatures Great and Small

Cathy wrote: "Keep going, he'll grow on you (maybe). "

I don't think so :-( I don't like his conversations, repetitive, circular, two pages of "Do you love me? You're a good boy." "I do love you, I really do. You're a wonderful girl." ...


message 15: by Red (new)

Red | 2 comments My character is in a naturist camp in France hunting a killer and trying to clear himself as a suspect.


message 16: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie Tuell (booksloveme) My main character is in Caldwell NY fighting lessers.


message 17: by Paula (new)

Paula | 72 comments My character is in the Burg in New Jersey. I'm reading "Finger Lickin' Fifteen" Janet Evanovich.


message 18: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie Tuell (booksloveme) Love that series.


message 19: by Paula (new)

Paula | 72 comments stephanie wrote: "Love that series.

I love them too Stephanie and I got my husband hooked on them too. LOL



message 20: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie Tuell (booksloveme) I wish I could get my husband hooked on something other than tv.


message 21: by Paula (new)

Paula | 72 comments LOL, mine's either TV or computer but he will read at night.


message 22: by Deborah (new)

Deborah | 2 comments My character's in Amsterdam, talking with his brother, whom he hasn't seen in 60 years. Joop by Richard Lourie


message 23: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
Feodora wrote: "The Character of my just started book is in Israel, working as an Archaeologist in Qumran ( חירבת קומראן‎ )

The second Messiah is originally written in english, but funny enough the german edition..."

From Qumran the left for TelAviv and now they are in Rome.


message 24: by [deleted user] (new)

Sounds interetsing Feodora... Too bad it's not in English.


message 25: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
Hayes wrote: "Sounds interetsing Feodora... Too bad it's not in English."
The release in english will be this summer...


message 26: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
Istarted a new book which I won on a page where they present soon to be published books.
The book will be published soon. Till then I should read it and write an rezension. They promote two books a week. www.vorablesen.de
Die Tortenbäckerin by Brigitte Janson


message 27: by Yvensong (new)

Yvensong | 11 comments My main character is in Caesar Chavez High School in Calif. I just started reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow today.


message 28: by Amy (new)

Amy (bookczuk) | 97 comments I'm reading a LibraryThing Early Reader book that took 6 months to get to me. It's called The Nobodies Album and right now, the setting is in San Francisco. An interesting part of the book includes the main character, an author, writing a book that is a compilation of redos of the final chapters of her other novels. Talk about the ultimate "do-over"! (This is by the woman who wrote Dogs of Babel.)


message 29: by Feodora (last edited Jan 17, 2011 10:38AM) (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
I just switched to a tiny book from a bookbox. A friend gave it to me. So for a short while I was in the Brambly Hedge. How sweet that was and the nice pictures. I was really delighted and I have still some to put inbetween....

Spring Story (Brambly Hedge) by Jill Barklem


message 30: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
Somewhere in London....

What Came Before He Shot Her (Inspector Lynley #14) by Elizabeth George


message 31: by Lucinda (new)

Lucinda (luckaye) | 1 comments My main character lives in Palm Beach, Florida, USA with his wife and a very naughty dog - yes I am reading 'Marley & Me' by John Grogan whilst waiting for pages to load on my computer.


message 32: by Cathy (new)

Cathy  (cathepsut) Miami! In the kitchen of his apartment...

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) by Jeff Lindsay


message 33: by Chana (new)

Chana | 30 comments My main character is in Gravesend, New Hampshire. His name is Johnny Wheelwright and his best friend is Owen Meany. I am reading A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.


message 34: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
Feodora wrote: "Somewhere in London....

What Came Before He Shot Her (Inspector Lynley #14) by Elizabeth George"


As I read a book at home and in Bonn, where I work (weekliy commuting) I started a new one at home.
It takes place in Cologne 1076...

Anno 1076. Die Schatten von Köln. by Jörg Kastner


message 35: by Shannon (new)

Shannon  (shananigansreads) | 17 comments Dark Lover in a small town outside of NYC


message 36: by CynthiaA (last edited Jan 22, 2011 05:46PM) (new)

CynthiaA (bookthia) | 11 comments My character is John James Audobon and he is on a ship outside of Labrador Canada (although it wasn't yet Canada during his lifetime) searching for birds to add to his project to illustrate all the birds of North America. Creation


message 37: by Joana (new)

Joana Gomes (tuanita) | 3 comments My character's name is Harry Potter :-D and he's on Godric's Hollow!


message 38: by Feodora (new)

Feodora | 108 comments Mod
Hard to say, but I would say London, or Guernsey...

Have a look yourself

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer


message 39: by Bookguide (new)

Bookguide | 46 comments The author is in Irian Jaya (the old New Guinea), the other half of the island of Papua New Guinea. He's trying to get to the highest mountain, but keeps being thwarted by bureaucracy and weather.

I'm reading 'Naar het sneeuwgebergte' (To the Snowy Mountains) by Bart Vos.


message 40: by Nancy (new)

Nancy Brady (minesayn) | 162 comments It took me a while to figure out just where my main character is...finally figured it out, for sure, and it is Aberdeen County in New York (state). (The Little Giant of Aberdeen County)


The other novel I'm reading, the main character is in Berkley, California (The Nitrogen Murder).


message 41: by Bookguide (new)

Bookguide | 46 comments I am now a young boy in Tripoli, Libya, under threat by Gaddafi's regime.
Book: In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar. Reading in Dutch ('Niemandsland')


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