The European Reading Challenge
January 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015
January 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015
COMPLETED!
This is my wrap-up post.
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The gist: The idea is to read books by European authors or books set in European countries (no matter where the author comes from). The books can be anything – novels, short stories, memoirs, travel guides, cookbooks, biography, poetry, or any other genre. You can participate at different levels, but each book must be by a different author and set in a different country – it's supposed to be a tour.
I host this challenge, so I signed up at the highest level, the Five Star (Deluxe Entourage) level, to read at least five books by different European authors or books set in different European countries. I read a total of eight books, but I didn't review many of them. I was pretty busy starting my own law firm this year, so didn't have the time or attention to review many of the books I read. I barely had time to read them!
MY BOOKS
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (Norway)
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy (Greece; reviewed here)
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn (France; reviewed here)
Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes (United Kingdom; discussed here)
Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell (Italy; Ancient Rome, really, but . . .)
Prague by Arthur Phillips (Hungary, despite its title)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (Czechoslovakia)
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Holland)
