Now that it’s 2021, like all bookish nerds, I have a list of reading goals for the year. This includes reading more tomes, and doing some rereading. However, my main reading project is the Invisible Cities project which I’m hosting with some book bloggers and booktubers. This is a reading project to encourage reading around the world. Each month we have three different counties to focus on and participants are encouraged to engage with one or all the countries culture by reading a book, watching a film, eating their food or any other way. Our hosts are divided into the three counties to help provide content. For example, in January we are looking at Argentina, Japan and Morocco and I’ll be one of the hosts for Argentina.
We hope to give people plenty of time to plan their reading, and I need to announce the countries for March, which are Iraq, Mexico and Libya. For those who don’t know, February’s countries were China, Colombia and Egypt (the country I’ll be hosting). I am looking forward to March, because I will be a host for Libya and I’m not sure if I’ve read anything from this country.
As always I’m going into the reading project with no books planned, I read on a whim but it does make it difficult to promote the reading project. For example, in January I’m focusing on Argentina and I have so many options I want to read. I think I plan to read Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarac (translated by Megan McDowell) & Dead Girls by Selva Almada (translated by Annie McDermott). I’m very excited about this project and would love to see more people involved, there is a Discord for this project, so people can connect and talk about the project.
Hi, I found out about your Invisible Cities project from a couple of other bloggers. I just tried to join via the Discord link but it’s not playing ball. Can you tell me what I need to do?
I’m not sure what issues you’re having, I tested the link again and it seems to be valid. What is happening for you?
Yesterday I entered my user name, clicked the accept terms and conditions but when I pressed ‘continue’ nothing happened. Tried several times with no luck. Just tried it again and it worked first time. Must have been having an off day yesterday – I know the feeling.
So I’m in, and now about to explore.
See you in the chat area probably Michael,
Karen (Bookertalk)
Glad it worked today
What a terrific reading project, enjoy the journey around the world.
It’s been fun so far, excuse to read world literature as well as watch films and eat food from those countries too