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?
Victorian England was on our list, too.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Comment by Astilbe 10.12.21 @ 6:24 amI 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 amDo you remember the Georgetown Metro stop in the movie No Way Out? Infuriating. 🙂
Lori
https://fiftytwo.blog/2021/10/11/ttt-favorite-book-settings/
Yes to Victorian England! Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/ten-more-books-about-books/
Comment by Stefani 10.12.21 @ 2:18 pmGreat list!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/autumn-vibes-books-whos-cover-has-autumn-feels/
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/