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Report the books you have read for this challenge here.

Beyond the Mexique Bay by Aldous Huxley


Theme:
4 points- set in Latin America
2 points - site is mentioned on p. 139 in the first section about Chichicastenango
1 point - focuses on some aspect of Mayan history or customs

Author:
4 points - first and last initials found in Chichen Itza (Aldous Huxley)

Title and Cover:
No points (plain cover)

Length:
2 points - 200 to 300 pages

Total:
13 points

Zeccharia Sitchin, Caucas born, Azeri I think.
The title of the book is "The Lost Kingdoms" of Latin America.
Author‚s thesis is connection with Sumerian civilsation, of which he writes in previous books (not read), basing it on sculptures and some other fact.
One of the chapters, about 20 pages, is dedicated to our topic.
Interesting - two teams playing simiral to modern football, but captain of losing is decapitated at the end of the match!

Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest by Mary Jo McConahay


THEME/CONTENT
4 points: Book is set anywhere in Central America or the Caribbean (Guatemala)
1 Point: Book focuses on some aspect of Mayan history or customs

AUTHOR
3 Points: Author is female

TITLE
5 Points: Book title contains two words (not including subtitle)
4 Points: Title is in block lettering

COVER (must post picture)
4 Points: Has an image of a Mayan artifact
3 Points: Contains all of the colors of the rainbow


BOOK LENGTH
2 Points: 201-300 pages


Total Points: 26

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

THEME/CONTENT
5 points: Book is set in Mexico
1 Point: Book focuses on some aspect of Mayan history or customs. I think so, the characters and part of setting are from Mayan mythology

AUTHOR
5 Points: Written by a an author from Mexico (born there, now lives in Canada).
3 Points: Author is female

TITLE
4 Points: Title is in block lettering
3 Points: Title takes up most of cover

COVER
4 Points: Has an image of a Mayan artifact
1 Point: Has a snake or serpent
Although there is a drawing of Mayan pyramid on the cover, may not be Chichen Itza

BOOK LENGTH
3 Points: 301- 400 pages: 338

Total: 29 (or 28 if mythology doesn't count as customs)

Pretty good adventure quest about a adolescent girl mixed with mythology figures, maybe this is a YA novel

Samy, if we follow the same rules as in the previous months, I think you can add 4 points for a "book set anywhere in Central America or the Caribbean". By the way, I'm usually not into fantasy, but Gods of Jade and Shadow sounds fun!

The Maya: Life, Myth And Art by Timothy Laughton

THEME/CONTENT
5 points: Book is set in Mexico
4 points: Book is set anywhere in Central America or the Caribbean
3 Points: Book is set between 600-900 AD
2 Points: Book specifically mentions the site (several occurrences in the book, but more specifically from page 132 to page 135).
1 Point: Book focuses on some aspect of Mayan history or customs.

TITLE
5 Points: Book title contains two words (not including subtitle)
4 Points: Title is in block lettering

COVER
4 Points: Has an image of a Mayan artifact
1 Point: Has a snake or serpent (the hieroglyph on the right above the picture shows a snake)

BOOK LENGTH
1 Point: 100-200 pages

Total : 30 points

±áé±ôè²Ô±ð, yes, it was definitely a fun read, not very demanding, but enjoyable. Also, thank you for the suggestion, but Mexico is part of North America, not Central America, so I didn't count it for that one. The points aren't so important to me, but it's quite fun to try to fit the different categories and I discover interesting books that way as well as seeing what books other people discover...so I will leave it as is.

Oops, my mistake, sorry about that! Since the book I read is also set in Guatemala, I will count the 4 points for "a book set in Central America", even if you're right, the points aren't the most important in this challenge!

Mex is in Central America which is part of continent of North America.
There is lot of such dualities in geography, like Turkey and Russia over here in Europe, but mostly in Asia.
Similary in strictly geographical sense Europe isn‚t continent but peninsula of Asia. Right?

Yes Jovan, you’re right. It reminds me of a conversation I recently had with my son: he’d heard me incidentally say that Russia is a European country, and was almost shocked by it: for him, Russia is "obviously" in Asia. And it's better not even to talk about Greenland...

In the Around the World challenges folder, their is a link to a list of countries that can belong to more than one region, and Mexico is one of them.

The Well of Sacrifice by Chris Eboch.

Theme/Content
4 points: set in Central America (Guatemala)
3 points: set between 600-900 AD (9th Century)
1 point: focuses on aspect of Mayan history and customs

Author
4 points: author's first and last initials are in Chicken Itza
3 points: author is female

Title
4 points: title is block lettering

Cover
4 points: image of Mayan artifact: headdresses, pedestal, pyramids
3 points: has all the colors of the rainbow
2 points: has patterned Mexican textiles (patterned, Mayan, perhaps not Mexican)

Length
2 points: 201-300 pages

Total
30 points