Eurasia

Amy GB

Greece, The Odyssey, and Homer

I am embarrassed to admit this, but I have a Classics degree and prior to this challenge, had never before read The Odyssey. I am...

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Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Khaled Hosseini

All the vague impressions in my mind of Afghanistan being a heartbreaking place of war and misogyny were confirmed in reading this book....

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Tajikistan, Where Does the Water Come From, and Aminjon Shookuhi

My quest to read around the world began in China, so I am reading my way around China's borders: this time, with Tajikistan's National...

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Mongolia, The Green-Eyed Lama, and Oyungerel Tsedevdamba

Reading this book got me all excited because it did exactly what I need this challenge to do: taught me things about a country's...

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Russia, Eugene Onegin, and Alexander Pushkin

Again, never reading things in the order I promised I would in my last post. I ordered my Mongolian book, The Green-Eyed Lama (and...

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China, The Radiant Emperor Duology, and Shelley Parker-Chan

I know, I said my first book in this attempt to read my way around the world was going to be from Afghanistan. But then the concluding...