Reading Challenge 2022; Book 53: Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

Book 53: Anxious People

Author: Fredrick Backman (Sweden) 🇸🇪

Genre: Novel

Set in: Sweden 🇸🇪

Page 113:

The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.

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Armour

She waited for a knight in the shining armour till the day she learned how to make her own armour and wear it.

- Eisha

Reading Challenge 2022; Book 52: Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

Book 52: Istanbul - Memories and the City

Author: Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) 🇹🇷

Genre: Memoir/Travel/History

Set in: Turkey 🇹🇷

Page 244:

This was my first intimation of the thing that would nag at me in later years, the self-contradiction - a Westerner would call it a paradox - that we only acquire our own identity by imitating others.

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Reading Challenge 2022; Book 51: The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán

Book 51: The House of Ulloa

Author: Emilia Pardo Bazán (Spain) 🇪🇸

Genre: Novel

Set in: Spain 🇪🇸

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Page 192:

Everywhere, it is true, politics is a cloak for self-interest, hypocrisy and lack of principle.

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50 Books 50 Countries; Book 50: Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary

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 50: The Secret Adversary

Author: Agatha Christie (England) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Genre: Fiction/Crime

Set in: United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Page 222:

Conrad snarled impotently, and said sullenly, as the man with the beard swung round upon him:

'He gave the word. How was I to know?'

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50 Books 50 Countries; Book 49: Colin Thubron's To a Mountain in Tibet

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 49: To a Mountain in Tibet

Author: Colin Thubron (England) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Genre: Travel

Set in: Nepal 🇳🇵 Tibet  🏴󠁣󠁮󠀵󠀴󠁿 (the emoji doesn't show up in India)

Page 54:

The value of things no longer belongs to cost or beauty, but only to memory. The chipped and faded teacup is more precious than the silver tray that nobody used.

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