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• mauie

  going for Botswana, Yemen or Smyrna instead of Brazil or Portugal..couldn’t find any Saramago in time for the challenge. ^_^

  # 23 April 2009, 9:08 am

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• Pingback: Jad’s Thoughts » World Book Day: The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya

  [...] at Global Voices are doing a reading challenge where bloggers are challenged to read a book from a country whose [...]

  # 23 April 2009, 11:36 am

  
  
• Pingback: Read Your Way Around the World Challenge: Iceland « BROWN PAPER

  [...] Voices is conducting a book challenge titled “Read your way around the world”  to mark the [...]

  # 23 April 2009, 19:34 pm

  
  
• Pingback: In My Flesh Shall I See God « (Mis)readings

  [...] book, read as part of the Global Voices Book Challenge in commemoration of UNESCO’s World Book Day, in its brief and simple yet gripping rendition [...]

  # 23 April 2009, 21:01 pm

  
  
• Lova RakotomalalaContributor profile »

  Here is my contribution. Thnaks for the idea, I had a lot of fun discovering the author and the book:

  http://rakotomalala.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-book-day-review-book-of-sand-by.html

  can’t wait to read other people’s reviews.

  # 23 April 2009, 23:21 pm

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  [...] be having two entries (the other is Torgny Lindgren’s The Way of a Serpent) for the Global Voices Book Challenge, the condition of which is to read a book from a country whose literature one haven’t read [...]

  # 24 April 2009, 16:10 pm

  
  
• Pingback: Global Voices Online » Read Your Way Around the World: Book Challenge Roundup

  [...] our loyalty to traditional forms of writing, at the end of March the Global Voices team proposed a challenge around UNESCO Word Book Day. We have asked our contributors and readers to pick and read a book [...]

  # 25 April 2009, 4:18 am

  
  
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  [...] things collided here. I wanted to do a book review of The Hakawati which I am reading for Global Voices Book Challenge. Then there was the metaphysical prompt from Read Write Poem plus their random writing tip of five [...]

  # 26 April 2009, 13:47 pm

  
  
• Pingback: Global Voices Book Challenge - #gvbook09 « Sylwia Presley

  [...] am shamelessly late with this one, because the challenge was planned for last week. However I do not want to keep it for myself due to my laziness last [...]

  # 27 April 2009, 20:09 pm

  
  
• Pingback: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck « The Armenian Odar Reads

  [...] 13, 2009 This is the book I was reading for the Global Voices Challenge, but I only finished it last Saturday. This 360 page book took me more than a month to read. Need I [...]

  # 13 May 2009, 5:30 am

  
  

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