Comments on: ASIA – Reading The World http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/ reading a good book with a furchild by my side Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:51:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Caribousmom http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-13356 Caribousmom Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:10:49 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-13356 Mome Rath: You have some interesting recommendations - thank you so much! Mome Rath: You have some interesting recommendations – thank you so much!

]]> By: Mome Rath http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-12980 Mome Rath Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:53:58 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-12980 Awesome Asia list! I can highly, highly recommend Toer's This Earth of Mankind. I just finished it, and am ready to hunt down Child of All Nations. Since you've read Midnight's Children, I guess you can add Rushdie to India. Thoughts for other books would be Colin Cotterill's The Coroner's Lunch, an odd but fun mystery set in 1970's Laos; Orhan Pamuk's Snow or My Name is Red for Turkey; and Murakami's Kafka on the Shore for Japan. Your list has given me ideas for other books I need to be getting to this year! Awesome Asia list! I can highly, highly recommend Toer’s This Earth of Mankind. I just finished it, and am ready to hunt down Child of All Nations. Since you’ve read Midnight’s Children, I guess you can add Rushdie to India. Thoughts for other books would be Colin Cotterill’s The Coroner’s Lunch, an odd but fun mystery set in 1970’s Laos; Orhan Pamuk’s Snow or My Name is Red for Turkey; and Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore for Japan. Your list has given me ideas for other books I need to be getting to this year!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-683 Anonymous Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:00:39 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-683 Penny, Thank you for your wonderful suggestions! I will add them to the list of possibles :) Penny, Thank you for your wonderful suggestions! I will add them to the list of possibles :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-682 Anonymous Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:10:20 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-682 I can suggest one for the Philippines: Tess Uriza Holthe, _When the Elephants Dance_ (Penguin 2003) Oh, and Sri Lanka: Karen Roberts, _The Flower Boy_ (Random House 2000). I read the Holthe and liked it very much. The Roberts is on my TBR shelf--it's pretty though! I can suggest one for the Philippines:
Tess Uriza Holthe, _When the Elephants Dance_ (Penguin 2003)
Oh, and Sri Lanka:
Karen Roberts, _The Flower Boy_ (Random House 2000).
I read the Holthe and liked it very much. The Roberts is on my TBR shelf–it’s pretty though!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Anonymous Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:44:47 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-681 Thanks for stopping by! I'm excited to read from this list :) Thanks for stopping by! I’m excited to read from this list :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Anonymous Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:27:11 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-680 Terrific challenge, Wendy. Many of those titles sound so intriguing. I look forward to reading your thoughts about the ones you choose to read. Terrific challenge, Wendy. Many of those titles sound
so intriguing. I look forward to reading your thoughts about the ones you choose to read.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Anonymous Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:29:12 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-679 Whether you want to call it an endeavor or a challenge, it is definitely fun to do, Trish! Thanks for the recommendation on an Indian read :) Whether you want to call it an endeavor or a challenge, it is definitely fun to do, Trish! Thanks for the recommendation on an Indian read :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Anonymous Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:22:09 +0000 http://www.caribousmom.com/2007/07/27/asia-reading-the-world/#comment-678 So I just quickly browsed through this list. About a year ago my then 12yo brother in law stayed with hubby and I for a week or two and we put up maps of the US and world as we were "teaching" him. Anyway, I was reading a lot of world literature then and really wanted to put pins into the cities where I was "visiting." I never did, but this challenge makes me think of that. It would be great to keep track, but I'm not sure if I would call mine a challenge (maybe just an endeavor). Anyway, great book for India is "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. Good luck! So I just quickly browsed through this list. About a year ago my then 12yo brother in law stayed with hubby and I for a week or two and we put up maps of the US and world as we were “teaching” him. Anyway, I was reading a lot of world literature then and really wanted to put pins into the cities where I was “visiting.” I never did, but this challenge makes me think of that. It would be great to keep track, but I’m not sure if I would call mine a challenge (maybe just an endeavor).
Anyway, great book for India is “Midnight’s Children” by Salman Rushdie.
Good luck!

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