Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

[shadforth]

I was born an illegitimate boy on the Orkney Islands,in 999,then taken to Iceland by my mother,and have just arrived in Greenland saved after our ship was wrecked by my paternal father.

Viking: Odinn's Child by Tim Severin

 

[Deleted member 6550]

"We must get rid of it."

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

 

[saliotthomas]

In the Artic looking for a boat with Inouit art objects.

Jean Echenoz-I'm going

 

[beer good]

Shut into my apartment, smoking way too much opium and possibly staring at a dead woman in my bed.

 

[Landslide]

I'm writing my family history, while my maid Padma tries to convince me to have dinner.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

As a Ranger's apprentice, I'm learning how to ride a pony.

 

[angerball]

I'm in a Canadian prison in the 1850's. A psychiatrist has just stopped by and is asking my thoughts on an apple. :blink:

 

[Anamnesis]

A Russian summer camp

 

[saliotthomas]

In Belgium talking to my music maestro while his wife is hidding under the sheets.

David Mitchell-Cloud atlas.

 

[Robert]

I'm in Newfoundland, trying for a fresh start in life.


The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

 

[Comeflyaway]

I'm in the southern Florida swamp in the early 1910s, desperately trying to find out the truth behind the lynching of my outlaw father.

-- Shadow Country

 

[angerball]

Reliving my life as a maid working in the house, where I was later accused of murdering the housekeeper and my master.

 

[sparkchaser]

Retreating, err, withdrawing from what I think is Rommel's army but it's really Arnim's forces.

 

[angerball]

In a meat locker, sifting through frozen chunks of meat, looking for human remains. :whistling:

 

[saliotthomas]

In Russia,i just killed my husband lover and cut her in two for carrying(i'm a weak woman).

The flood by Evgeni Zamiatine

 

[shadforth]

I'm a Polish immigrant working on London's Underground trying to fathom out who keeps pushing women off platforms!

 

[beer good]

In future Africa, watching chimpanzees take over the continent. Except not, since I'm long extinct.

 

[saliotthomas]

In Leningrad during the siege playing the Three musketeers with Minus 10 c in the theaters,starved and with the clapping of the puplic mufelded by there gloves.But hey,i'm in love.

The story of un unknown man by Andrei makine

 

[twss]

In Paradise California drilling for Oil(!)

 

[Hedwig]

I'm in some lonely bedroom where I have just repaired the electrical device that powers me after it gave me a blind eye and a paralysed arm. (Sounds strange? It IS strange ...)