Kuvaus:
"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." ---Jean Rhys
This group is for readers who, for whatever reason, endeavor to explore the world through great fiction. We don't exclude nonfiction discussion entirely, but we are primarily a fiction group.
If you are a compulsive literary traveler, you've come to the right place!
Current picture The Blue Marble, courtesy of NASA
This isn't all that we're about, but here are our . . . Current Theme Reads
December - Translation; translated literature January 2010 Sweden February 2010 Jungle/Rainforest March 2010 The Caribbean April 2010 The Ottoman Empire
For more information as to how we work our theme reads see the current theme read thread or the themes you are interested in as the threads become available (as those months get closer).
Previous theme reads include:
2009: November = India * October = Ghouls & Ghosties * September = Portugal * August = Aboriginal/first peoples literature * July = the Polar Regions * June = The Arts * May = Poland * April = Slavery * March = Argentina * February = Africa * January = Japan
2008: December - None * November - Australian Literature * October - Ocean Adventures * September - Iceland/Greenland * August - Myths told & retold * July = Nigeria * June = Voluntary Immigration * May = Countries of the Former Yugoslavia * April = The Many Faces of Muslim Women * March = Haiti
Comments can be still posted to any of these threads.
Avainsanat: reading globally (1), world fiction (1), challenge (1), reading challenge (2), international (2), translations (2), theme reads (3), world literature (3), group reads (3)
