Country 39 “I was on a quest for women, women’s scents, sweat, lips, breasts, and I was thinking of buying a color television set in order to look at their warm flesh.”
Read The World – The House of Jasmine by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (Egypt)
The Art of Staying Dead by Joel Hames
Fast paced, lots of things going on, lots of action, but I just didn't really enjoy this, I didn’t enjoy the London part so much, the Africa part was much more interesting and engaging, even though I just couldn't get into Sam’s character, but at least he has a sense of humour, or any of... Continue Reading →
Read The World – Wild Swans by Jung Chang (China)
Country 38 “I grew up taking hierarchy and privilege for granted”
Read The World -The Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis (Germany)
Country 37 “Three years later, the Wall fell. And I, in one way or another, grew up”.
Read The World – The Last Friend by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco)
Country 36 “In prison, I saw Mamed, who was almost unrecognizable. He had lost weight, and his head had been shaved. We were among a hundred or so students who had been arrested for "crimes against state security."
Read The World – Girl at War by Sara Nović (Croatia)
Country 35 ”It was not anxiety or excitement now, but real fear. I felt dizzy, as if someone had tied a rope around my middle and squeezed out all my air. Somewhere behind us our teacher was shouting instructions for us to go home. Still everyone who’d emerged from the shelter moved as one toward the explosion. “
Read The World – The Grimoire of Kensington Market – Lauren B Davis (Canada)
Country 34 “At that moment, downstairs in the shop, a small golden light flashes and a book appears on the desk. The book is blue, the colour of the centre of an iceberg. On the cover are the words The Grimoire of Kensington Market”.
Read The World – Human Acts – Han Kang (South Korea)
Country 33 “After you died I couldn’t hold a funeral, So these eyes that once beheld you became a shrine. These ears that once heard your voice became a shrine. These lungs that once inhaled your breath became a shrine.”
Read The World – Friend – Paek Nam Nyong (North Korea)
Country 32 “How much longer do you need to work on your new machine?” “Just a little bit more,” he replied. Shaking her head, she muttered, “It’s always the same answer. You said that two months ago, last year, and the year before that.”
Read The World – The Cost of Sugar – Cynthia McLeod (Suriname)
Country 31 “They just wanted their freedom. Freedom to live there in the bush. They wanted nothing from the planters or the government: just freedom. “
Read the World – The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco (Italy)
Country 30 “And he answered that it is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools”
Read the World – Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado (Brazil)
Country 29 “I wasn't born for this life, Cat said repeating a phrase he had heard from a travelling salesman once in a bar in Aracaju”.
Read the World Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell (Belize)
Country 28 “We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation.”
Read The World -Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (Palestine)
Country 27 “The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn”
Read The World – The River’s Song by Suchen Christine Lim (Singapore)
Country 26 “Change is inevitable”.
Read The World – Mema by Daniel M. Mengara (Gabon)
Country 25 ‘Today’s children,’ she continued, ‘today’s children are funny. Nowadays children think that they are cleverer than their elders. So they boast publicly about their intelligence and their sharp tongues. Of course, my son who has just spoken has shown that he comes from a good family, and a good village. His people should be proud of him because he is of the race of people who are born to lead others. Yet, he is only a child in the eyes of someone like me who has wiped the buttocks of many children and grandchildren. So I will not blame him for being clever.’
Read The World – Night by Elie Wiesel (Romania)
Country 24 “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
Read The World – The Murder of Roger Ackryod by Agatha Christie (UK)
Country 23 “You should employ your little grey cells”
Read The World – Antes Que Anochezca by Reinaldo Arenas
Country 22 "I arrived, doing some complicated mathematical calculations, to the conviction that, at least, I had made love with about five thousand men."
Read The World – The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden (Bhutan)
Country 21 ‘I am so glad you have come. I don’t like being with all these old people. They are no fun,’ she whispered.’
Read The World – The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
Country 20 “Nina couldn’t help wondering if the lives of other people were really as simple as they looked. As simple, and as happy.”
Read The World – The Book Of Memory by Petina Gappah
Country 19 “I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when I thought of all the other people who seemed to have had harder lives than mine. I disappeared completely to occupy the world of whatever book I was reading.”
Read the World – Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
Country 18 “She’s Tamil. That’s enough. They take our land, our jobs. If we let them they will take the whole country.”
Read the World – Mother by Maxim Gorky
Country 17 “When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
Read the World – The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
Country 16 “Those who don't know how to make love, make war.”
Read The World – Life on a Rock by K.A. Albury
Country 15 “As the seaplane charter glided into the harbor, Peter and I glanced at each other with unspoken words. I prayed everything would go according to plan.“
Read The World – Augustown by Kei Miller
Country 14 “To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt – the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.”
Read the World – Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Country 13 "I came to Comala because they told me that my father, a certain Pedro Páramo, lived here. My mother told me. And I promised her that I would come see him as soon as she died. I squeezed her hands as a sign that I would, because she was about to die and I was in a plan to promise everything. "
Read The World – The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
Country 12 “One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.”
Read The World – Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Country 11 ”The plain is beautiful and terrible at the same time; in it fit, comfortably, beautiful life and atrocious death "
Read The World – Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Country 10 “I wanted to tell him that you do not light a fire under a fruit-bearing tree, but these young people think they invented knowledge so I ignored him”
Cold Nips and Frosty Bits by Tracie Podger
Blurb from goodreads.com. Please scroll down for my review. Living between Scotland and Kent with the dashing Scot, Ronan, and a collie called Max, Lizzie can finally settle into a relationship with someone who gets her…most of the time.Drama llamas and fainting goats aren’t all that Lizzie falls in love with, though. There’s the caravan... Continue Reading →
Read The World – Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Country 9 “Even as a boy he'd known that his father's soul had touched him on the way up. He knew that meant something big and quiet and scary as hell”
Read The World – The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
Country 8 “Some cities you go to because you want to; some cities you go to because they want you to.”
Read The World – Tierra del Fuego by Sylvia Iparraguire
Country 7 “Power generates bastards who abuse the homeless in all parts of the planet.”
Read The World – The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale by Gerard Reve
Country 6 “The dog accompanied the two of them down the stairs, but halfway there Walter grabbed the animal by the scruff of the neck, placed his shoe on the tip of its tail and stepped on it hard. The dog gave a yelp, which turned into a long howl.”
Read The World – Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country 5 “This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.”
Read The World – The Sand Fish by Maha Gargash
Country 4 “An unfulfilled dream is like spilled milk on dry earth. It sinks instantly and leaves a useless patch to re- mind you that you can never taste it.”
Read The World – Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason
Country 3 “It always seems to be the bloody perverts who seem happiest of all. Smile at the world as if there's never anything gnawing away at their bloody consciences.”
Read the World – Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza (Ecuador)
Country 2 “The Indians cling with blind and morbid love to that piece of land that is lent to them for the work they give to the hacienda. What's more, in the midst of their ignorance, they believe it to be their property "
Read The World – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Japan
Country 1 Japan “Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
The Gift of Death (Nick Sullivan 4) by Karla Forbes
When Nick Sullivan is sent to Uganda for a routine assignment, he doesn’t expect trouble but news of his arrival has preceded him and someone wants him dead. His enemies are powerful people and in a country where life is cheap, he is soon fighting to survive. He doggedly battles on, refusing to acknowledge the... Continue Reading →
Quick Questions with Colette Kebell
First of all I would like to thank Colette for taking part in this Q & A on our Facebook group THE Book Club Audible Listeners. Colette is the author of The Retail Therapist, Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or So Mother Says), Confessions from the Cotton Fields, Arbitrage. A bit about Colette.Colette... Continue Reading →
The Sufferings of a Young Woman by Zakir Hossain
blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. We don't know what is going to happen in our lives in the next moment... A long-awaited tour turned a young woman's life into a nightmare. My Review A sad and unforgetting story, I wasn't keen on the subject, or the writing style but these subjects... Continue Reading →
Sniper (Nick Sullivan #3) by Karla Forbes
Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Flynn was one of the elite, a highly trained sniper in the British army who was proud of his skills and lived by a strict moral code. But even the best can crack when the stress becomes unbearable and now he’s on the rampage bearing a... Continue Reading →
Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or So Mother Says) by Colette Kebell
blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. GiGi (well, Griselda Griswald actually, but everybody calls her GiGi) is a woman with a mission: to help people improve the way they look, increase their self-esteem, and eventually, make them happier people. Being a personal shopper is a dark art, with few tangible rewards. Spread... Continue Reading →
The Retail Therapist by Colette Kebell
blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Window shopping! Don’t you just hate the term?It is like going into a sweet shop and not being able to buy anything, or not knowing what to buy first. That is exactly my line of business, helping people make the right choice.I’m one of those fashion... Continue Reading →
The Third Wave (Nick Sullivan #2) by Karla Forbes
blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Charles Morgan is small operator in the vast computer technology industry but he's ambitious. He borrows heavily from the Mafia to finance his dreams of becoming a big player but when he fails to make the expected profit, they are quick to demand their money back.... Continue Reading →
Fallout (Nick Sullivan #1) by Karla Forbes
Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. The British Government is being blackmailed by criminals who have got their hands on a quantity of plutonium left over from the cold war. Only one man knows their identity and can prevent a catastrophe but he is on the run for a murder he didn't... Continue Reading →
Limp Dicks and Saggy Tits by Tracie Podger
Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. What to do when your husband runs off and leaves you single—when being single is not your thing? Lizzie has decided that single life does not suit her. From castles in Scotland to barns in Kent, via apartments in London, she embarks on a journey of... Continue Reading →
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