This is me
Hello everybody, my name is Tove. I’m an avid reader and a bibliophile. I have read thousands of books, and now it is time for me to take on a new challenge; I plan on reading a book or two from every single country on our planet, in alphabetical order. The author has to be…
The List of Books
Afghanistan: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (headliner) and Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep by Siba Shakib (support, author Iranian) Albania: The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare Algeria: So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar Andorra: The Phaeton report: (Noah’s secret diary) by Albert Salvado and Andorra by Peter Cameron (author American) Angola: A…
Saudi Arabia: Modern Girls in a Traditional World
I had high expectations regarding this book, for some reason. The Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea is a book about four rich Saudi twentysomethings, young women living their lives, dreaming about other lives. In many ways it is a typical tradition versus modern type of a book, because women are dressed in black head…
