

#ArtfulAugust Day 22: This definitely counts as #ForeignIntrigue - looking forward to reading my copy soonest.
#ArtfulAugust Day 22: This definitely counts as #ForeignIntrigue - looking forward to reading my copy soonest.
#rememberingjenny
I saw her talk about this on IG and am reading it in her memory! She gave it 5 stars.
May her memory be for a blessing.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/22225628-remembering-jenny-memorial-wall
Up next...I‘m curious to learn about these countries I know nothing about. I‘m using it for the North Asia prompt in my Memoir Around The World Challenge.
#bookspinbingo
#almostachunksterchallenge
โThe Stans are at a crossroads. Should they forge closer links with Russia or China, or look to the West? Which interpretation of their own history should they trust?โ
#Turkmenistan #Kazakhstan #Tajikistan #Kyrgyzstan #Uzbekistan
Squid Game keeps distracting me but I did finally finish this book ๐ฆ
Lack of democracy, struggling economies, suppressed ethnic conflicts: there are similarities between the Central Asian โStan‘ countries but many differences too. Fatland shares her experiences while traveling through them along with historical information. I will definitely read it again if I ever go there myself.
I use this book for #Tajikistan in #ReadingAsia2021 ๐น๐ฏ
#WeeklyForecast 40/21
I am still having The Leavers in progress (not too engaging since it takes so long to finish it) and have just started Bewilderment. I hope to read Summerwater and Sovietistan too this week!
Thank you Rachel @rockpools โค๏ธ๐ป
Sorry for the late posting but these arrived last Friday. Thank you for your lovely card. It must be very beautiful living in a coastal town ๐. For now, I‘ll have to be content with being an armchair traveller. And more bookmarks to add to my collection, thanks! ๐.
#bookmail
#litsylove
๐ธ๐๐ธThank you Helen! ๐ธ๐๐ธ
The sparkly parcel with squirrels on was definitely from you - thank you so much! I‘m definitely going to get through (some of) the #stanbacklog this month - but I might be glad I didn‘t go down the 600-pages of The Border route!
And who knew that Percy Pig ๐ทhad globetrotting friends? (Obviously not me, because I live in weird small-town-with-no-m&s-ville!) I just finished the Percy‘s this weekend (thanks @TrishB )
Continuing my travels #ReadingAsia21 l I‘ve left #Kyrgyzstan ๐ฐ๐ฌ and I‘m halfway through #Uzbekistan ๐บ๐ฟ This book continually informs and entertains. Im learning so much. Highly recommend as both a travelogue and history book.
Look what‘s just arrived @Cinfhen - you bad book-enabler, you! ๐คฃ
#blameitonlitsy
#blameitoncindy