posted by soe 1:51 am
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl invites us to share our favorite bookish settings:
- The beach (It’s not enough on it’s own to make me bring a book home, but it’s always enough to make me read the blurb.)
- Christmastime (Ditto. And, actually, it’s usually enough to make me take the book out from the library.)
- London (In pretty much any era.)
- D.C. (Unless they do a terrible job of it. I stopped reading a book once because of the way they described the fountain in Dupont Circle.)
- Victorian England (The setting of many of my favorite cozy detective series.)
- New England (Again, unless they do a terrible job of it. I gave up on a book recently because she used a real Connecticut town in the entirely wrong part of the state.)
- Autumn (Everyone’s just happier in fall.)
- The 1920s (It always seems such a glamorous time…)
- Modern Paris (I’m less interested in it as historic setting, but I’d be delighted to follow cat burglars up the Eiffel Tower or into the Louvre.)
- The 1980s (Many of my school years were in this decade, which means I have a nostalgic fondness novels (particularly y.a./kidlit) sprinkled with banana clips and Trapper Keepers.)
How about you? What places or times immediately make you give a book a second look?
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