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October 12, 2021


top ten favorite bookish settings
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:

  1. 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.)
  2. Christmastime (Ditto. And, actually, it’s usually enough to make me take the book out from the library.)
  3. London (In pretty much any era.)
  4. 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.)
  5. Victorian England (The setting of many of my favorite cozy detective series.)
  6. 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.)
  7. Autumn (Everyone’s just happier in fall.)
  8. The 1920s (It always seems such a glamorous time…)
  9. 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.)
  10. 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?

Category: books. There is/are 6 Comments.



Victorian England was on our list, too.

Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.

Comment by Astilbe 10.12.21 @ 6:24 am

I agree! Autumn is a wonderful season to read about.

My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-favourite-book-settings/

Comment by Lydia 10.12.21 @ 8:53 am

Do you remember the Georgetown Metro stop in the movie No Way Out? Infuriating. 🙂

Lori
https://fiftytwo.blog/2021/10/11/ttt-favorite-book-settings/

Comment by Lori Piper 10.12.21 @ 10:43 am

Yes to Victorian England! Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/ten-more-books-about-books/

Comment by Stefani 10.12.21 @ 2:18 pm


I had Paris and London on my list this week too. I also really love autumnal settings, they’re so pretty with the changing leaves. And yes to the 1920s, everyone does seem to be having a ball!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/top-ten-tuesday-337/

Comment by Jo 10.12.21 @ 5:29 pm