Global Exploring One Book at a Time
It is the end of the semester. I have to suppress a sigh every time a student appears at my door. And yet, I am still very much on the clock and they need me to be more, not less, responsive. Or, as one suggested, "You could just give us all A's and be done." Sigh. In a search for some inspiration to lighten my mood, I came across the story of British freelance writer and sub-editor Ann Morgan , who took it upon herself to read a book from each of 197 countries (all of the UN-recognized countries plus Palestine and Taiwan.) In her project -- My Year of Reading the World, Morgan set out to answer one question in particular: "Can a person in London access all of world literature?" Morgan started her " book packing " project in 2012. She read 4 books a week and blogged about it here . The Anglophone world press got excited about her challenge and the wonderful, strange things that it made happen in the world and shared her story her