READ First off, let me just say that I loved the protagonist in Unity Dow’s book, The Heavens May Fall. She’s a young, smart, fierce lawyer working for a nonprofit organization that helps women and children in Mochudi, Botswana. It’s hard for me to not love a character whose inner musings on the first page of the … Continue reading The Booktrekker: Botswana
The Booktrekker: Bangladesh
READ For Bangladesh, I was planning to read Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim. But just as I finished the first few pages, I found out that it was a sequel to Anam’s first novel, A Golden Age. So I stopped reading The Good Muslim (for now), and picked up A Golden Age. The book opens with widow Rehana Haque losing … Continue reading The Booktrekker: Bangladesh
The Booktrekker: Argentina
READ In trying to decide what to read for my blog post on Argentina, how could I not choose a book called The Tango Singer? Many people are aware of the iconic dance, but outside of Argentina, less may be known about the singers whose music helped provide the atmosphere for the tango’s fiery passion. This novel, by Tomás … Continue reading The Booktrekker: Argentina
The Booktrekker: Afghanistan
READ An unintended benefit of this global reading project is that it gave me the nudge I needed to read a book I should have read long before now. I'm probably the only person on the planet who had never read anything by Khaled Hosseini, and after finishing A Thousand Splendid Suns, I know my world view was poorer for … Continue reading The Booktrekker: Afghanistan
The Booktrekker: Introduction
My name is Pam Giarrizzo, and I'm thrilled to have been invited to guest edit this month for Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. I embarked on a project a few years ago to explore the world through reading, cooking, and giving, which means reading a book, cooking a dish, and making a donation to a … Continue reading The Booktrekker: Introduction
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 