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This science fiction story takes place in the United States and Nigeria.
4/10 countries for #ReadTheWorld2025

Thank you @GatheringBooks !

#Nigeria

I haven‘t been keeping up with sharing my progress on #ReadTheWorld2025 !
This nonfiction book takes place in and around the Cambridgeshire Fens in England.
3/10 countries

Thank you @GatheringBooks !

#England

#JuneSpecials Day 24: #Canada is one of the countries featured in the #ReadTheWorld2025 challenge with @PaperbackPirate ‘s review of tagged book. I have actually posted a half yearly progress round up of participants‘ sharing on GatheringBooks here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rsI - tagging @BarbaraBB @Kristy_K - everyone is welcome to join us - we still have (barely) half a year left to read more of the world. Let‘s do it! 📚📚📚🌍✈️🚢🚞

What did I just read? I think this is about hair-made balls, tennis (or a game similar?), sex, and the colonization of Mexico by Cortés. But honestly there was so much going on and switching of stories that (I think) were supposed to be interconnected. I would have DNF‘d but I was using this for multiple reading challenges and was also trying to keep an open mind.

#ReadtheWorld2025 #Mexico #sortof

Cindy sent me this book. Forty stories about people who were attacked by Hamas on October 7 2023.
Some survived, some not or have been taken captive. Their stories are told by their family.
It‘s horrible what happened on that day, it‘s very hard to read. People dancing on a festival one minute and entering a nightmare the next one. The stories do feel a bit too propaganda for me though.⬇️

#ReadTheWorld2025 book 19 #Israel

Wonderfully written novel that reads like a coming of age memoir.

#ReadtheWorld2025 #spain

I liked Zelu‘s story much more than the book-in-the-book, the SF novel. And I didn‘t get the ending of that SF novel. But it doesn‘t matter, this book is quite an experience and a perfect book to discuss around the fire during #CampLitsy25 in July!

#ReadTheWorld2025 book 18 #Nigeria

Short book of essays focusing on Dangarembga‘s life experiences, race, and feminism in Zimbabwe and a little in England. I know little to nothing about Zimbabwe, so this was an interesting and enlightening first look.

#ReadtheWorld2025 #Zimbabwe

A nanny kidnaps the little girl she takes care of. It takes a while before their disappearance is noticed because the girl‘s mother has a career and much going on. In this story the intertwined stories of mother and nanny highlight the societal expectations placed on women and the consequences. A very surprising read! Thanks for the rec @Lesliereadsalot

#ReadTheWorld2025 book 17 #Brazil

? Last pic from the weekend in San Sebastián, Spain

As with all short story compilations, I enjoyed some more than others, but each one was unique. Each took place 100 years after the US and British invasion and it was eye-opening and thought-provoking to see how each author processed this and chose to represent the future — some shining light on the after effects of the war through speculative fiction while others leaned heavily into science fiction.

3⭐️

#Iraq #ReadtheWorld2025