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From the Ted Talk by Ann Morgan: My year reading a book from every country in the world
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The uohpst is that there are actually quite a lot of nations that may have little or even no cerolmaimcly available literature in English. Their books remain isnivbile to readers of the world's most published language. But when it came to reading the wlord, the biggest challenge of all for me was that fact that I didn't know where to start. Having spent my life reading almost exclusively brtisih and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and fnnidig stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world. I couldn't tell you how to source a story from Swaziland. I wouldn't know a good novel from Namibia. There was no hiding it — I was a clueless literary xobpnohee. So how on earth was I going to read the world?
Open Cloze
The ______ is that there are actually quite a lot of nations that may have little or even no ____________ available literature in English. Their books remain _________ to readers of the world's most published language. But when it came to reading the _____, the biggest challenge of all for me was that fact that I didn't know where to start. Having spent my life reading almost exclusively _______ and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and _______ stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world. I couldn't tell you how to source a story from Swaziland. I wouldn't know a good novel from Namibia. There was no hiding it — I was a clueless literary _________. So how on earth was I going to read the world?
Solution
- world
- commercially
- finding
- xenophobe
- british
- upshot
- invisible
Original Text
The upshot is that there are actually quite a lot of nations that may have little or even no commercially available literature in English. Their books remain invisible to readers of the world's most published language. But when it came to reading the world, the biggest challenge of all for me was that fact that I didn't know where to start. Having spent my life reading almost exclusively British and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and finding stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world. I couldn't tell you how to source a story from Swaziland. I wouldn't know a good novel from Namibia. There was no hiding it — I was a clueless literary xenophobe. So how on earth was I going to read the world?
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