1troyschwab
A topic where you can post your global reading maps and talk about where you're excited to read next!
Below are steps for how to generate a map and for anyone new that does not know how to post images or include an image in their post:
1. Make your chart on this website: https://www.mapchart.net/world.html
You don't have to use that website, but if you do be aware the map will not automatically be saved. It should be easy to click countries to color them in, and right click them if you want to remove the color.
2. Download or screenshot your chart so you have an image file
3. Upload your image file to your gallery, as shown below. There will be a drop down of "To Where?" in that menu. If you want that image in your main gallery or in the "Junk Drawer" you can choose there. "Junk Drawer" is if you want to post the image without having it appear on your profile or in your image gallery. The "Junk Drawer" is NOT visible to other users, and images in it are only visible if you provide a link.
4. Once uploaded, you should be able to see your image. You can right click it and select "Copy Image Address". When you paste, you will paste the desired link. It will look something like this: https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/04/98/0498d2653b1956b63747a473367426...
5. To embed this image in a post here, you use the below text, but surround it with a less than and a greater than symbol. This process is also described here:
img src="the_link_you_have_from_step_4"
If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask!
Below are steps for how to generate a map and for anyone new that does not know how to post images or include an image in their post:
1. Make your chart on this website: https://www.mapchart.net/world.html
You don't have to use that website, but if you do be aware the map will not automatically be saved. It should be easy to click countries to color them in, and right click them if you want to remove the color.
2. Download or screenshot your chart so you have an image file
3. Upload your image file to your gallery, as shown below. There will be a drop down of "To Where?" in that menu. If you want that image in your main gallery or in the "Junk Drawer" you can choose there. "Junk Drawer" is if you want to post the image without having it appear on your profile or in your image gallery. The "Junk Drawer" is NOT visible to other users, and images in it are only visible if you provide a link.
4. Once uploaded, you should be able to see your image. You can right click it and select "Copy Image Address". When you paste, you will paste the desired link. It will look something like this: https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/04/98/0498d2653b1956b63747a473367426...
5. To embed this image in a post here, you use the below text, but surround it with a less than and a greater than symbol. This process is also described here:
img src="the_link_you_have_from_step_4"
If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask!
2troyschwab
I am only counting new reads starting in 2021 when I decided to focus on global lit! So far I am happy to have:
US (Carver, Tartt, ETC)
Canada (Carson)
Colombia (Marquez)
England (Blake)
France (Voltaire)
Italy (Calvino)
Austria (Rilke)
Nigeria (Tutuola)
Russia (Tolstoy)
Japan (Mishima)
I think next I want to get some broader sense of time with the Pirkei Avot for Israel. Gibran's The Prophet also sticks out in my mind for Lebanon. Other than that I'm kind of just thinking about trying to fill in major gaps. Probably India or China, then another African and South American country. Rough idea right now is
Bhagavad Gita or maybe R. K. Narayan's Guide for India
Maybe Sun Tzu's Art of War (although I did recently hear about Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian) for China. I'd like something more contemporary but I haven't spent much time looking for the right book.
For Africa I'm sort of torn between Kenya with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (maybe The River Between) and Senegal with Mariama Bâ (So Long a Letter).
South America I think Bolaño's 2666 would be fun with Chile or maybe Borges's Collected Fictions for Argentina. I really want to read more Marquez or Lispector. I keep Bolaño's Antwerp in the back of my head though because of how short it would be and how highly it is regarded in his bibliography.
Australia for some reason isn't that pressing for me.. but I heard The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems by Les Murray is good.
US (Carver, Tartt, ETC)
Canada (Carson)
Colombia (Marquez)
England (Blake)
France (Voltaire)
Italy (Calvino)
Austria (Rilke)
Nigeria (Tutuola)
Russia (Tolstoy)
Japan (Mishima)
I think next I want to get some broader sense of time with the Pirkei Avot for Israel. Gibran's The Prophet also sticks out in my mind for Lebanon. Other than that I'm kind of just thinking about trying to fill in major gaps. Probably India or China, then another African and South American country. Rough idea right now is
Bhagavad Gita or maybe R. K. Narayan's Guide for India
Maybe Sun Tzu's Art of War (although I did recently hear about Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian) for China. I'd like something more contemporary but I haven't spent much time looking for the right book.
For Africa I'm sort of torn between Kenya with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (maybe The River Between) and Senegal with Mariama Bâ (So Long a Letter).
South America I think Bolaño's 2666 would be fun with Chile or maybe Borges's Collected Fictions for Argentina. I really want to read more Marquez or Lispector. I keep Bolaño's Antwerp in the back of my head though because of how short it would be and how highly it is regarded in his bibliography.
Australia for some reason isn't that pressing for me.. but I heard The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems by Les Murray is good.
3labfs39
Another group you might enjoy is The Global Challenge. There, some of us track our reading from every country, and you will find many reading maps, as people try to read one or more books from every country.
