Genny's European Literary Travels

I like the idea of this challenge. I've just been looking into Norwegian authors prior to my first ever visit there coming up in the summer, and it will be good to have a focus for broadening my reading horizons to include other parts of Europe which I don't yet know much about.

I may not post frequently here (I'm mainly active in the 75 book challenge group), but will try to remember to record the new reading that is relevant, and maybe back-date it a bit too.

Welcome, Genny, seems like we keep meeting each other on LT.

This map now shows the countries in Europe which I've visited on this literary tour, since beginning of 2010:



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Hello Joey, yes I saw this group on your profile page and went to investigate it.

I'm finally putting some more info on this thread.

Here is my list of European countries, to which I will add details of books when I've read them. I borrowed the list from justjoey, adapting it slightly (to include the constituent nations of the United Kingdom). So far including only books read from beginning of 2010 onwards.

England: many books - first in 2010: Sweet Danger Margery Allingham
Scotland: Exit Music Aug 2010, Wildfire at Midnight Sept 2010
Wales
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Iceland
Denmark
Norway: The Vikings: a short history July 2010; East of the Sun and West of the Moon Aug 2010
Sweden: The girl with the dragon tattoo - Feb 2010
Finland
Estonia
Latvia: The Dogs of Riga - April 2010
Russia
Belarus
Lithuania
Poland: Night - May 2010
Germany
Netherlands: Tulip Fever & Man zoekt vrouw om hem gelukkig te maken - April 2010; My 'Dam Life May 2010
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Andorra
Spain
Portugal
Malta
Italy
Vatican City
San Marino
Switzerland
Liechtenstein
Austria
Czech republic
Slovakia
Hungary
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria
Turkey
Cyprus
Greece
Albania
Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Slovenia

Hi Genny, glad to see you're here again, taking up the brave task of literary conquerring Europe. I've halted my tour for a while as I'm very busy right now, but I'm looking forward to continue where I stopped. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Welcome! We're a small but patient bunch here, making slow but steady progress. (I expect to have covered half of Europe's countries by the end of 2011, and then I'm among the fastest movers here :)

Nice seeing you here. As soon as I start a challenge like this one, I find myself reading books from every other part of the world. I'm on solid Anglo-American reading at the moment, so not colouring in any new countries!