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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (67) - "Definitely Maybe" by #Russia brothers Boris & Arkady Strugatsky and translated by Antonia W Bouis. Sci-Fi tale of academics versus aliens? The universe? The Iron Curtain? (Not sure I was smart enough for this story!) #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (66) - "Pink Slime" by #Uruguay author Fernanda Trias and translated by Heather Cleary. Dystopian story of an inhabitant of fictional coastal town when an unknown plague sets in. Who can she take care of? Where can she go? #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (65) - "Clean" by Alia Trabucco Zerán (translated by Sophie Hughes), set in Santiago #Chile Story told via main character's "interrogation" monolog about being the maid in the house of the señor & señora and what happened to the girl there. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (64) - "Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette), set in #Palestine The 1949 Nirim affair (gang rape/murder of a young Bedouin girl by IDF soldiers) & a present day woman's compulsion to know more. Sparse & haunting. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (63) - "Discontent" by Beatriz Serrano (translated by Mara Faye Lethem), set in Madrid, #Spain Existential crisis of an adrift, unfulfilled 30something advertising manager. Wonderful words. Excellent expressions. Irresistibly irreverent. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (62) - "I Must Betray You" by Ruta Sepetys, set in Bucharest, #Romania Teenaged Cristian is "recruited" by the secret police to be an informer. Who else is informing? Who can he trust? Set in the waning months of Ceaușescu's reign and fall. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (61) - "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)" by Rabih Alameddine, set in #Lebanon The story of Raja, his mom, and their relationship set against the backdrop of Beirut's tumult thru the decades. Felt genuine, good read. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (60) - "These Letters End in Tears" by Musih Tedji Xaviere, set in #Cameroon Bess and Fati, a Christian and a Muslim fall in love where it is lethal to be gay. Bess tells their story, present and past, while searching for Fati. What happened? #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (59) - "The Country of Toó" by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, set in #Guatemala Cobra is the central character in this story of redemption, rebellion & relative morality. Political corruption & corporate greed vs indigenous people... who will Cobra follow? #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (58) - "In the Time of Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez, about the Mirabal sisters during the Trujillo dictatorship in the #DominicanRepublic Lives of the 3 assassinated sisters & the 1 that lived. Well-fleshed out, gripping, infuriating, sad. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (57) - "Ayiti" by Roxanne Gay, a collection of short stories about #Haiti and Hatian people there and elsewhere. Deep characters and biting commentary, resilient people and nuanced observations, short stories and big implications. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (56) - "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" by Sidney Poitier, which included his formative years on Cat Island and Nassau #TheBahamas Enjoyed learning about how growing up in a remote setting & early experiences formed the man. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge (55) I read "Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop" by Hwang Boreum, set in Seoul #SouthKorea Gentle read about bookish lady who opens a book shop & the people who go there. Good insights on reading. Not much happens, but that is the point. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Book Censor's Library: A Novel" by Buthaina Al Eissa, from #Kuwait Dystopian future where imagination is expunged, meaning is surface level & books are the enemy. Like 1984. Censor works against government, suffers consequences. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis set on Crete #Greece Verbose telling of the friendship between a younger intellectual guy and an older grab life by the balls guy. One expresses with words, one with dance. Much misogyny. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez set in fictional Macondo #Colombia Magical realism isn't my favorite genre, so if I am going to read one I am glad to have read the quintessential example. What a crazy ride! #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Misinterpretation" by Ledia Xhoga set partially in #Albania Part good thriller and part odd, about an Albanian immigrant interpreter dealing with marriage, familial, and professional intrigue and drama. Parts were great, some were not. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "On A Woman's Madness" by Astrid Roemer set in #Suriname Complex story told in fragments about a young woman and her path towards survival and freedom. A look at womanhood, family ties, societal pressures, racism, sexism, patriarchy... #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Celebration" by DAMIR KARAKAŠ set in #Croatia Mijo, an Ustaša fighter, comes home from WWII. One review - physically light, psychologically heavy - so accurate. 4 moments in time described. Atmospheric, Unsettling. Recommend audio. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "It Would Be Night in Caracas" by Karina Sainz Borgo set in #Venezuela Survival. Set in a crumbling Caracas, the main character focuses on survival. Corruption, crime, loss ... personal, a way of life, a country's soul. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Eurotrash" by Christian Kracht set in #Switzerland Circular road trip in a taxi, w/a man, his 80+ year old mom, her money, her colostomy bag & lots of dredging of past. Liked the core & point of the story, but many references beyond me. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Crooked Plow" by Itamar Vieira Junior set in the rural hinterlands of Bahia #Brazil Magical realism narrated by 2 sisters linked by tragedy. Exploited black laborers work the land... racism, injustice. Spiritual faith keep them rooted. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Museum Detective" by Maha Kahn Phillips set in #Pakistan Mummies, mystery, missing persons. Dr Gul works with her found family to investigate a newly discovered mummy. Who can she trust? Fun mystery with some twists and turns. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Blue Book of Nebo" by Manon Steffan Ros set in post-nuclear #Wales A mother and her son somehow survive "The End" alone. Their perspectives are told, written passages in a book about their village. Made a statement, made one think. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Fever Dream" by Samantha Schweblin set in rural #Argentina Unsettling. Creepy AF. Short, packs a punch. Definitely a 'what did I just read?!' moment. Real? Hallucination? 🤷‍♀️ Not usually fan of psychological terror-y, but this was good. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Sweethand" by N.G. Peltier set in Trinidad #TrinidadandTobago Rivals to lovers contemporary fiction told against the backdrop of a wedding. The maid-of-honor and the best man cannot stand each other... or can they? Fun, spicy! #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld challenge, I have completed 42 countries... #TrinidadandTobago the most recent.

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld challenge, I have completed 41 countries... #Austria the most recent.

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Café with no Name" by Robert Seethaler set in Vienna #Austria Slice of life novel set in 1960s Vienna where the café and it's regulars were the gentle story. Conveyed the sense of change and passage of time subtly. Pleasant read. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "A Fort of Nine Towers" by Qais Akbar Omar mostly in Kabul #Afghhanistan Personal memoir of young Afghan from 1992-2001 during Civil War & rise of Taliban. Horrific but humble. Love of country, family, god. Infuriating beyond words. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Revolution Sunday" by Wendy Guerra set in Havana #Cuba Challenging read; mixes poetry w/story of a Cuban poet/author living under the authoritarian regime and learning her own history. Interesting but felt like I was missing something. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Broughtupsy" by Christina Cooke set in Kingston #Jamaica Akúa comes back to Jamaica 10 years after her mom's death to deal with the death of her younger brother & to confront her older sister who stayed. Themes of belonging & identity. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Island of Forgetting" by Jasmine Sealy set mainly in #Barbados Generational saga with family ties, mental illness, trauma, all without being too saga-y. My reaction was fairly mid. Worthwhile but not wow. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "You're Invited" by Amanda Jayatissa set in Columbo #SriLanka Loved this delicious thriller set during a wealthy wedding with revenge, agendas, and a who done it of sorts. Delightful storytelling. Excellent Read. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "A General Theory of Oblivion" by José Eduardo Agualusa set in Luanda #Angola Set during & post Angolan independence, Luda walls herself in her pent.apt & stays solitarily, for decades. Othr stories are intertwined & wrapped up w/a bow 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Age of Vice" by Deepti Kapoor set mostly in New Dehli #India Early 2000s. Ajai is a poor kid who grows to serve rich guy Sunny who gets involved with Neda. It's Dallas or Dynasty but in India. Entertaining but could have been shorter. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World" by Elif Shafakset in Istanbul #Turkey Tequila Leila is dead in a dumpster in 1990. Over the next 10+ minutes she reflects on events/friends of her 40 year life. Excellent read. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "A Girl is a Body of Water" by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi set in #Uganda Feminism, female relationships, and family thru young Kirabo's life during the '70s. Excellent read. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Jawbone" by Monica Ojeda set in Guayaquil #Ecuador Disturbing. Psychologically Traumatic & Dramatic. Bit Psycho, bit Cruel Intentions but amped way up. Private school girls in cult-ish of their own making, teacher w/mom issues. Creepy. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Bullet Train" by Kotaro Isaka set in a Shinkansen travelling from Tokyo to Morioka #Japan Fun, intertwined assassin stories confined mostly to a high speed train. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Greta & Valdin" by Rebecca K Reilly set in Auckland #NewZealand Title siblings are 20somethings in a large, chaotic family where love means many things & they are navigating the world & themselves to figure it out. Really enjoyed! 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Afterlives" by Abdulrazak Gurnah set in what's now #Tanzania A generational opus set during colonization era. I'd have liked to dwell more on each time frame instead of such a sweeping saga. Just as I got into a tale, we were off. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvior set in Paris #France 3 stories about middle-aged women absolutely going thru it. Was a lot, but prickled my brain in a good way. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Straight from the Horse's Mouth" by Meryem Alaoui set in Casablanca #Morocco Comedic yet cynical story about a sex worker navigating life and the characters around her. Liked it, but don't know if it was supposed to be so cynical? 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club" by Faith Hogan set in fictional Ballycove #Ireland Story of three women at different life-stages forming bonds and roots in a costal village. Gentle, comforting with lovely characters. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Visitation" by Jenny Erpenbeck set outside Berlin #Germany The story of the last century as snippets of the families who inhabited a home. Wars, holocaust, reconciliation, reparations, the horrors & the every days. Elegantly told. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Discrete Hero" by Mario Vargas Llosa set in Piura & Lima #Peru Two soapy stories become one; enjoyable plot. Did some skim-reading as author was wordy. Overall meh. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Lion Women of Tehran" by Marjan Kamali set largely in Tehran #Iran Enjoyable read about friendship, womanhood & freedom. And fighting for those things. And those things enduring patriarchy, extremism, oppression, colonization... 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "Devil on the Cross" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o set mainly in Nairobi & Ilmorog #Kenya Critique of colonialism, capitalism, exploitation, etc wrapped in a story with many truisms, addages & tales. Challenging, insightful read. Sadly circular. #booksky 💜📚

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Tina! 💜 @mteeheaded.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

For my #readaroundtheworld #bookchallenge I read "The Boy in the Suitcase" by Agnete Friis & Lene Kaaberbøl set mainly in Copenhagen #Denmark Excellent thriller/mystery/crime novel. Compelling story & characters. Fulfilling read. 👍 #booksky 💜📚

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