BookObsessed

It looks like I can skip, so I'll message the next person.

Hi, everyone. I am away from home (in England) and can't participate in this round. Sorry. I'll be back next time.
Diane / eicuthbertson

eicuthbertson wrote:Hi, everyone. I am away from home (in England) and can't participate in this round. Sorry. I'll be back next time.
Diane / eicuthbertson

eicuthbertson, you have a couple to replace. When you get back home could you do that, please?

Please skip me, thanks.
(Don't forget, if you don't like the books I have in the box, I'm happy for you to choose something else from my AVL or TBR shelves.)

Time to set out on new adventures!

Books that qualify for this bookbox are fiction, biographies, memoirs and travelogues set in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East or based on the experiences of immigrants from those locations. Or set in North America, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand with a focus on indigenous or minority cultures. In essence, this vbb is meant to open doors to new cultural experiences.

Anyone who is interested in joining us, let me know.

You must replace any books that have been in the box for three rounds and are marked with three *** on your turn.
If no response is received within 48 hours of the beginning of your turn, you will be placed at the bottom of the list and the next participant will be notified to take their turn.

Those who owe books from more than six months ago are marked with an asterisk (*). Please refrain from playing (except to replace books) until you are caught up. Also players who have books that should have been replaced before this round may not take books from the box until they have replaced the overdue books. Overdue books have been placed in quarantine.

Participants were reordered last round.

Participant List

1.veganmedusa
2. itpdx
4. dancing-dog
5. therubycanary
7. eicuthbertson
9. shnedwards
10. tsjara
3. azuki
8. zzz

azuki, what is your next destination?

Recent Moves:

eicuthbertson will hopefully replace books when she returns from her RL travels.

therubycanary skips

dancing-dog

bibliotreker says good-bye

itpdx removes:
***The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh [India] (itpdx)
***Little Bee by Chris Cleave [Nigeria/UK] (itpdx)
***My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad [Iran] (itpdx)

and puts in:
Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay by LLyn De Danaan [Native American US] (itpdx)
The Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [India/US] (itpdx)
Partitions by Amit Majmudar [India and Pakistan] (itpdx)

shnedwards skips

Tsjara takes out:
***Empress of the Splendid Seasons by Oscar Hijuelos [Cuba/USA] (tbr) (Tsjara)
***White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway [Hong Kong/USA](Tsjara)
***Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra [Afghanistan] (tbr) (Tsjara)

Tsjara replaces them with:
What Is the What by Dave Eggers [Sudan] (tbr) (Tsjara)
To the Navel of the World: Yaks and Unheroic Travels in Nepal and Tibet by Peter Somerville-Large [Nepal/Tibet] (tbr) (Tsjara)
Monkey King by Timothy Mo [Hong Kong] (tbr) (Tsjara)



Books Currently In the Box

Immigrant Experiences
*Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti/US] (itpdx)
***Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee [China/Canada] (eicuthbertson)
*Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar [Middle East-South Asian / USA] (eicuthbertson)
**Honour by Elif Shafak [Turkey/UK] (shnedwards)
**The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros [Hispanic/Latino American] (tbr) (Tsjara)
**Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber [Jordan/US] (rubycanary)
**Mister Foreigner by Matthew Kneale [UK/Japan] (tbr) (Tsjara)
**Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton [England/Japan] (itpdx)
*The Sari Shop Widow by Shobhan Bantwal [India/US] (azuki)
The Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [India/US] (itpdx)
**Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan [China/US] (eicutbertson)



Asia/Oceania
*After Dark by Haruki Murakami [Japan] (tsjara)
**The Cave of the Yellow Dog by Byambasuren Davaa, Lisa Reisch [Mongolia] (azuki)
**The Chequebook & the Cruise-Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy by Arundhati Roy, David Barsamian [India] (VeganMedusa)
***China Road by Rob Gifford [China] (azuki)
**The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng [Malaysia] **(shnedwards)
***The Lord of Death by Eliot Pattison [Tibet] (eicuthbertson)
**The Love Queen of Malabar by Merrily Weisbord [India] (eicutbertson)
Monkey King by Timothy Mo [Hong Kong] (tbr) (Tsjara)
**Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong [Vietnam] (therubycanary)
Partitions by Amit Majmudar [India and Pakistan] (itpdx)
*River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler [China] (zzz)
*The Setting Sun by by Osamu Dazai [Japan] (eicuthbertson)
**Sky Burial by Xinran [Tibet] (itpdx)
To the Navel of the World: Yaks and Unheroic Travels in Nepal and Tibet by Peter Somerville-Large [Nepal/Tibet] (tbr)(Tsjara)


Africa
**The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton [Kenya] (VeganMedusa)
*Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee [South Africa] (itpdx)
*Fadimatu by Jennifer Mitton [Nigeria] (eicuthbertson)
What Is the What by Dave Eggers [Sudan] (tbr) (Tsjara)


Latin America and the Caribbean
*The Postman by Antonia Skarmeta [Chile] (itpdx)


The Middle East and North Africa
*The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani [Iran] (tsjara)
*Rooftops Of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji [Iran] (azuki)
**The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg [Afghanistan] (rubycanary)

Indigenous and Minority Cultures Elsewhere
Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay by LLyn De Danaan [Native American US] (itpdx)


World Wide


Quarantine
Supertalya has 2 books to replace from a prior rounds
Sailorarby has 1 book to replace from a prior round
Ri has 1 book to replace from a prior round
Gategypsy has 1 book to replace
MsJoanna has 2 books to replace from prior rounds
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Books out of play this round: