50 Books 50 Countries; Book 31: Calvin & Hobbes Yukon Ho!

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 31: Calvin & Hobbes Yukon Ho!

Author: Bill Watterson (USA) 🇺🇸

Genre: Comic

Set in: USA 🇺🇸

Page 69:

"Nobody had better be sneaking up on me!!"

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50 Books 50 Countries; Book 30: Mitch Albom's The Stranger in the Lifeboat

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 30: The Stranger in the Lifeboat

Author: Mitch Albom (USA) 🇺🇸

Genre: Fiction/Novel

Set in: Montserrat 🇲🇸 USA  🇺🇸 Ireland 🇮🇪

Page 187:

He rumbled toward me, his bloodshot eyes and beard-covered lips and yellowed teeth and purplish tongue--all of it so near I felt he was going to swallow me whole.

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Light, white and black: My four-year-old's composition

My four-year-old son's composition that he has repeated at least 25 times a day all week:

White light, black shadow

There is no black light

When it's dark, it's black

They have not switched on the light.

#logicalreasoning #childhood #DeductiveReasoning

50 Books 50 Countries; Book 29: Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

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 29: Zorba The Greek

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece) 🇬🇷

Genre: Fiction/Novel

Set in: Greece 🇬🇷

Page 129:

'Tis is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition.

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Gems

Turning Survival Inside Out

Humanity has been feeding itself the message that survival is hard, survival is good, survival of the fittest is best. There is also a saying that goes something like, “If you’re only ever given a hammer, then everything else will look like a nail.” When the focus of life is on survival, then everything looks like a competitive struggle.

Life itself is not trying to survive. Life begets life. Life celebrates itself in every subtlety and every overwhelm. Every aspect of life remains open and flexible, available to what might be required for its perpetuation. Even in an environment that seems to be lacking the means, somehow, life finds its way.

Turning Survival Inside Out

50 Books 50 Countries; Book 28: Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer

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 28: Kane & Abel

Author: Jeffrey Archer (England) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Genre: Fiction/Contemporary Classic

Set in: Poland 🇵🇱 Russia 🇷🇺 Turkey 🇹🇷 USA 🇺🇸 UK 🇬🇧 Germany 🇩🇪 France 🇫🇷 

Page 439: 

He read the item again, and couldn't deny that William Kane had risen far higher in the world since they had crossed swords, but so had he.

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50 Books 50 Countries; Book 27: Possum Magic by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas

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 27: Possum Magic

Authors: Mem Fox & Julie Vivas (Australia) 🇦🇺

Genre: Children's Books

Set in: Australia 🇦🇺

"Because she couldn't be seen she could slide down kangaroos."

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Words

Flashback December 27, 2020: My son was sick, the refrigerator wasn't working and I had gone to Chroma to look for an alternative. I returned home in 15 minutes to find the toddler crying hysterically and his grandparents and the cook unsuccessfully trying to pacify him. Tired, anxious and upset I had complained to my husband later in the evening, "Three people in the house and they cannot keep my son for 15 minutes!" The next morning there were only two out of the three left. My father-in-law had passed suddenly in the morning. The fridge was delivered at the time of my father-in-law's funeral. It bears a reminder how fickle human life is.

Two days back, I uttered the same words and stormed out of the house. Similar situation, different people, who couldn't keep a tantrum-throwing preschooler. It took 25 laps of power swimming (in 20 minutes, my fastest record) to calm me down. The words kept ringing in my ears. Words, that haunt me forever.

50 Books 50 Countries; Book 26: Patpong Sisters by Cleo Odzer

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 26: Patpong Sisters - An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World

Author: Cleo Odzer (USA) 🇺🇸

Genre: Non-fiction/Anthropology/Gender Studies

Set in: Thailand 🇹🇭

Page 125:

"I'll show you around. This is not a simple love story. The women of Patpong are expert at making foreign men go ga-ga over them. They collect marriage proposals. That's their business. The men see the beautiful poor girls supporting their families upcountry and, BOOM, they're in love, heroes saving their maidens in distress."

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50 Books 50 Countries, Book 25: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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 25: A Man Called Ove

Author: Fredrik Backman (Sweden) 🇸🇪

Genre: Fiction/Novel

Set in: Sweden 🇸🇪

Page 286:

‘Ove has a heart problem …’ he begins in an anodyne voice, following this up with a series of terms that no human being with less than ten years of medical training or an entirely unhealthy addiction to certain television series could ever be expected to understand.

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