June's Read the World group met earlier this week and we visited India this time - even the weather joined in with a mini monsoon storm in the middle of the meeting! As ever we all picked different books and authors but even so we found some common themes and had a great time talking about them and the books. Very few of the books this month were actually in translation which was interesting too. Our next meeting is on Bastille Day and so we're reading France for that!
In my own journey around the world, apart from Paraguay, the only new countries I visited were Burundi and Jordan but other locations included Japan, Korea (North & South), and Russia.
Looking back at the books I did read very few novels were stand outs but I did enjoy If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation by Daniel Hahn and Wild Pavements: Exploring Britain's Cities with an Urban Naturalist by Amanda Tuke.
June should be a book filled month - the next round of one of my reading projects starts and I have a beach holiday to look forward to!
