So how to win? Comment on this post telling me your favorite book set in a different country, and a second entry if you blog about it and link back here. US & Canada only please, and this contest ends on Sunday, Nov. 23 at 11:59 PM. I'll announce the winner on Monday, so make sure I have a way to get in touch with you.
36 comments:
Wow my favorite book set in another country...hmmm...there are many...how about Douglas Abrams' Lost Diary of Don Juan, which is a recent read for me....or an old read...Crime and Punishment.
I've got a list of them.
I'd love to be entered and will post your contest in the sidebar.
I have to go with Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake -- and I hope it counts, because it's only partially set in India! :) But it's one of my favorite books of all time. I need to read it again!
I'd love to be entered! My e-mail is writing.meg [at] gmail [dot] com. Thank you!
Wow, hard question! I definitely agree with writemeg that's a good one! I'm looking through the books I read this year and a lot of them take place in England! This is a totally lame answer but I think I have to go with Harry Potter, it's another country and another world! Love it!
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Most recently, I enjoyed both of Khaled Hosseini's books, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner.
Thanks for the chance to win this book!
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I absolutely loved Lisa See's SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN. Thanks for this giveaway -- the book sounds really good!
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I'd love to read this book. It sounds interesting and informative and I always enjoy learning while I'm reading. One of my favorite books set in another country is The Persian Bride by James Buchan. Such a wonderful story and yet so sad.
My favorite book set in another country is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
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I'm going with an older book that made me laugh when I re-read it a couple months ago - Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.
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I blogged about this in my right sidebar here:
http://janelsjumble.blogspot.com
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What fun! All of my favorite books are set in another country. Although I usually prefer fiction, I recently read Tears of the Desert and it is absolutely fabulous. Read it if you haven't.
Throw my name in the hat too. My favorite book set in another country was Under a Tuscan Sun. I went as far as to read other books she had written on Italy-loved it.
My favorite would have to be The Book Thief which is set in Germany during WWII...
Thanks for the entry :)
My favourite was easy to pick: Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres, which is set in Greece. I love that book to bits.
-- Memory
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My favorite book set in another country will have to be Light of the Moon by Luanne Rice
It's location was in France.
I would like to be entered in your contest. Thanks,
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My favorite was the Kite Runner. It was the first book for my goal of getting out of my usual stuff.
This one looks like a good read.
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One of my favorite books set in a country outside the US is "The Reader"....Germany, and I'll never forget that book!
Thanks so much for this giveaway!
Darby
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I have to say The Kite Runner. It was an eye-opening read. I really enjoyed your review--it sounds like an interesting read about the interaction between sisters. I only have brothers, so I like to read about sisters sometimes!
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I cute book that I really enjoyed was "13 little blue envelopes" the main character was from the u.s. but most of the story was set in england and she also traveled to other countries in europe. I also like "the undomestic Godess" which was set in england also. I really like british authors! thanks for entering me.
I recently finished a book set in India and it is on my all time favorite list-- What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin. Here is my review: http://beastmomma.squarespace.com/from-shelf-to-hand/2008/11/15/what-the-body-remembers.html
Great giveaway! I'd have to say my favorite recently has been Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. I dearly love that book.
This is a great question - and a hard one! My favorite would have to be the Harry Potter series but the most recent read that I really enjoyed is the The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society set in England and the island of Guernsey. It was such a good book. Thank you for your contest and I'm adding this to my blog.
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awesome giveaway! Dnt enter me though!
I have two that are on my best books of the year list The Seamstress set in Brazil and The Street of a Thousand Blossoms seet in Japan. Both were sooooo good!
I will post a link at my blog
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My favorites are High Rhyms and Misdemeanors
by Diana Killian a cozy mystery set in the Lake District in England and can't forget The Thorn Birds that wonderful book about Austraila and M. C. Beaton's mysteries set in Scotland. I have to many....
Theresa N
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It is hard to choose just one book that takes place in another country...so I will give you two. My favorites are The Good Earth and Memoirs of a Geisha.
I have also posted your contest on my sidebar.
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My favorite book set in a different country (for the moment at least... it changes all the time) is The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I just couldn't put it down!
I blogged about your contest at
http://betweenpages.wordpress.com
-Jessica
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My favorite book set in another country was Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding. I love a good laugh!
My favorite book set in another country is Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding. I love a good laugh!
Gina
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That would be The Tea Rose set in 19th century England.
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Hello.
Thank you for the giveaway.
It is very hard to pick a favorite. So..eeny meeny miney mo... The Autobiography of Henry VIII... ( coming a close second is Angela's Ashes).
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I blogged about it here:
http://athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekly-giveaway-roundup.html
my favorite book set in a different country would have to be The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig. Thanks for entering me.
Oh man, just one book? Ok, here's one that isn't necessarily my all-time fave, but I loved it and no one has mentioned it yet! A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle.
This book sounds interesting. I would love to be entered. Some of my favorite books set in other countries are in Africa. One of my all-time favorite books is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. And I also really enjoy Alexander McCall Smith's #1 Ladies Detective Agency series also set in Africa.
Off to post on my blog....
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Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
My latest favorite was People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, set in several countries, but mainly Sarajevo. Thanks for the entry!
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That's weird - I was going to say the same exact thing as the commenter above me: People of the Book. I like The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, though, too. :)
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