Oh noes! Shelbi's catching up!

To be precise, the author of a much more readable blog with the same name as mine has just covered Singapore. She did Hwee Hwee Tan's Foreign Bodies, at my suggestion. (Yes, I also suggested Isa Kamari, but that hasn't made it to her library yet. I'm amazed that Foreign Bodies did.)

She reads faster than me and she doesn't have the same rule about reading adjacent countries. Plus, she's actually on a real deadline to cover the world by the end of the year. So she'll probably be in South America and the Caribbean in no time flat.

Pretty soon we'll be neck in neck, and I'll be reading the same things she's been...

(Yes, I know this isn't a contest. But I have weird automatic impulses. And I'm male; I think we're automatically competitive.)