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Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 7:00 pm
by SonjaMarie
[quote=""Leo62""]Eh??? Am I missing something?[/quote]

Maybe I'm reading Boswell's restriction wrong, my bad, just ignore me :)

SM

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 7:01 pm
by Vanessa
I think SM thinks the theme is a Russian based book. I think she may have misread it.

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 7:05 pm
by Michy
Isn't Shogun set in Japan? Not Russia?

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 7:06 pm
by boswellbaxter
Sorry for any confusion, folks. Books set primarily in the European portion of Russia should NOT be nominated. So Shogun and the rest are fine.

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 8:15 pm
by Vanessa
[quote=""Michy""]Isn't Shogun set in Japan? Not Russia?[/quote]

Yes. Nothing to do with Russia.

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 9:32 pm
by Leo62
[quote=""SonjaMarie""] just ignore me :)

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Absolutely not! :D

I wondered if I'd got the wrong end of the stick too...

So to choose from I guess we have: Central and South America, Africa, the Near, Middle and Far East, Russia east of the Volga, India, Australia...hope I haven't missed a continent somewhere... :D

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 9:50 pm
by boswellbaxter
Canada and Mexico are fine too.

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 10:12 pm
by Misfit
I've already nominated, but does the Crimea qualify? There might be some interesting options there.

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 10:38 pm
by Ludmilla
I don't know if a book written in the 50s that takes place in the 20s qualifies, but since I know it's somewhere in the hidden recesses of my home, I'll nominate John Hersey's "A Single Pebble" about an engineer traveling the Yangtze looking for a suitable dam site. Last I checked it was still in print.

If that doesn't qualify, I'll nominate one of those niggling classics I haven't read: Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".

Posted: Fri August 13th, 2010, 11:13 pm
by boswellbaxter
Geography wasn't my strong point in school, folks. If it's here, it qualifies unless someone protests.