I have been posting my bookgroup's annual reading slate here since 2013, the year after I began this blog. Last year it was nearly the only thing that I posted. This year it will be the first of, at least, monthly posts. Or so is my intention.
In all those past posts, I think I have pointed out and praised every attribute of the Foreign Authors Bookgroup, this diverse group of women who are brought together by our love of reading and our interest in the wide world around us. We do not exclusively read foreign authors, but our focus is on foreign lands and cultures. Our November meeting is dedicated to nominating books, either fiction or non-fiction, current or classic, which we will then vote on for the year to come. We now have a limit of two nominations each, and I always aspire to read at least some of those which did not make the list.
I am now on the third book of the year, Magdalena, River of Dreams by Wade Davis, an exploration of the river that runs through Columbia, the land, its people and its history. It's an information-dense book that I doubt you would pick up on a whim, but I'm finding it quite interesting. At this age, I have finally come to accept that there are many places where I will never set foot, Columbia being one of them. Yet here I am, traveling both in time and space down this mighty foreign river, all the while comfortably tucked in bed, thanks to the written word.
