Travel the World in Books

Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge. Explore new countries and cultures and broaden your reading horizons. It's my goal to read 50 books from different countries in 5 years. You choose your own travel adventure in this challenge, where will your travel around the world in books take you?
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My Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge Goals and Books Read

Reading challenges are a fantastic way to broaden your reading horizons, learn and read more than you do now. I have lots of reading challenge ideas but the Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge is the one I created to explore new cultures and countries from the comfort of some amazing books.   I…

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The Yard by Aliyyah Eniath – a Dark Family Saga set in Trinidad

Blurb: The Yard by Aliyyah Eniath is a dark family saga set in Trinidad surrounding an Indian Muslim family living in a familial complex. Living in such close proximity means family relationships are tested, secrets are hard to keep and forgiveness is even harder to earn. Can forbidden love endure through the duty that culture, faith and family…

Author of Forty Rooms, Olga Grushin recommends the Moomin series of children's books during 30Authors event. Olga says "these stories celebrate the best things in life – family, friendship, openness to new things and new people, love of beauty and nature – and they do so with much subtle humor and effortless charm."
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Author Olga Grushin Recommends The Moomin Series of Children’s Books

  #30Authors has been going on all month long on book blogs around the Internet bringing you authors’ favorite recent reads. Have you been following along and adding all these gems to your to-read stack? I was happy to host Vanessa Hua who introduces us to Grace, a poignant historical fiction about slavery from debut author Natashia…

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A Perfumer’s Secret by Adria J. Cimino

Blurb: 3* – I LIKED IT! – I have a soft spot for books set in France and enjoyed learning about the talent and artistry of perfumers in creating memorable scents in A Perfumer’s Secret by Adria Cimino.   Synopsis from Goodreads: “The quest for a stolen perfume formula awakens passion, rivalry and family secrets in…