50 Books 50 Countries, Book 10: One Hundred Days in Samoa by Andy Southall

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews and ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 10: One Hundred Days in Samoa - Another Day in Paradise?

Author: Andy Southall (New Zealand) 🇳🇿

Genre: Non-fiction/Travel

Set in: Samoa 🇼🇸

Page 318:

We didn’t hear the plane land. It must have tiptoed down under cover of the rain. A shape appeared on the other side of the plastic flaps, then a man pushed his way through. Other passengers trickled out after him. Some wheeled only one small bag, barely big enough for a couple of bikinis, while others pushed skyscrapers of belongings, suitcases bulging at the seams and cardboard cartons packed with food.

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50 Books 50 Countries, Book 9: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews and ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 9: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin (Pakistan) 🇵🇰

Genre: Short Stories

Set in: Pakistan 🇵🇰, France 🇫🇷

Page 142:

"You know," she said thoughtfully, "the Seine doesn't divide Paris, it keeps the city together. It's just the right width, not a little stream but a public place in the heart of the city."

Sohail leaned down and kissed her. "That's a great image, the river not dividing Paris."

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50 Books 50 Countries, Book 8: Soulmates by Kanchana Ugbabe

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews and ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 8: Soulmates

Author: Kanchana Ugbabe (Nigeria) 🇳🇬

Genre: Short Stories

Set in: Nigeria 🇳🇬

Page 120: 

I lost on all counts.

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50 Books 50 Countries: Book 7: Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews an ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 7: Shopaholic & Baby

Author: Sophie Kinsella (England, UK) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

Genre: Fiction/ChickLit/Young Adult/Humour

Set in: England, UK  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

Page 173:

I am panting hard as she twists my skin even harder.

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50 Books 50 Countries, Book 6: Fast Cars, Fidgety Feet by Rishad Saam Mehta

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews an ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 6: Fast Cars, Fidgety Feet

Author: Rishad Saam Mehta (India) 🇮🇳

Genre: Non-fiction/Travel

Set in: Mexico 🇲🇽 India 🇮🇳 Germany 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 Italy 🇮🇹 Nepal 🇳🇵Russia 🇷🇺 Ireland 🇮🇪 Czech Republic 🇨🇿 Poland 🇵🇱 Finland 🇫🇮 Latvia 🇱🇻 Lithuania 🇱🇹 Estonia 🇪🇪 New Zealand 🇳🇿 France 🇫🇷

Page 75: 

A day later I was back in Bombay, sweltering in the heat, and it seemed almost unbelievable that just twenty-four hours earlier I had been trudging around knee-deep in snow in the middle of April. 

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50 Books 50 Countries, Book 5: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. Twice a week, I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews an ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 5: A Walk in the Woods - Rediscovering America on the Applachian Trail

Author: Bill Bryson (USA) 🇺🇸

Genre: Non-fiction/Travel

Set in: USA 🇺🇸

Page 141:

In the summer of 1948, Earl V. Shaffer, a young man just out of the army, became the first person to hike the Appalachian Trail from end to end in a single summer. With no tent, and often navigating with nothing better than roadmaps, he walked for 123 days, from April to August, averaging 17 miles a day. Coincidentally, while he was hiking, the Appalachian Trailway News, the journal of the Appalachian Trail Conference, ran a long article by Myron Avery and the magazine’s editor, Jean Stephenson, explaining why an end-to-end hike was probably not possible.

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50 Books 50 Countries, Book 4: The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

Book 4: The Zahir

Author: Paulo Coelho (Brazil) 🇧🇷

Genre: Fiction/Psychological

Set in: France 🇫🇷 Brazil 🇧🇷 Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

Location 3705 on Kindle:

"He dismounts, opens his saddlebag, takes out a knife, and cuts a strip off the sleeve of his shirt, then ties this to one of the branches. His eyes change; he may be feeling the presence beside him, but I prefer not to ask."

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My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews an ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

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50 Books 50 Countries, Book 3: Keigo Higashino's Malice

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews an ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 3: Malice

Author: Keigo Higashino (Japan) 🇯🇵

Genre: Fiction/Crime/Thriller

Set in: Japan 🇯🇵

Page 177: 

"It's really not that outlandish a request. Like I said, it's not a bad deal for you."

"I can't think of a worse deal."

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50 books 50 countries: Book 2: Normal People by Sally Rooney

Book 2: Normal People

Author: Sally Rooney (Ireland) 🇮🇪

Genre: Fiction/Romance/Young Adult/Psychological

Set in: Ireland 🇮🇪

Page 85: 

"You didn't attack me, he says. These things happen."

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. Twice a week, I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews an ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

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50 Books, 50 Countries Challenge - Book 1: Aligarh Muslim University by M Wajihuddin (India)

Book 1: Aligarh Muslim University - The Making of the Modern Indian Muslim

Author: Mohammed Wajihuddin (India)

Genre: Non-fiction

Set in: India

Page 19:

"Sir Syed could have died in anonymity, as he had planned to after the holocaust of 1857, or enjoyed the fruits of his loyalty to the British, since he was offered a huge tract of land confiscated from a rebel nawab. He settled for neither and chose a third path, the path of a fighter who undertook the herculean task of spreading modern education and scientific thinking in his community. He preferred fight to flight."

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. Twice a week, I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews an ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

50 Books 50 Countries Reading Challenge

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews and ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.