Care to share the places your books have taken you to? Book title: optional
Care to share the places your books have taken you to?
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Care to share the places your books have taken you to?
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In a Galaxy Far Far Away ?
Mars, Venus, The Earth’s Core, all over the world, To Infinity and Beyond.
China, North Korea, Istanbul currently
My real life travels include visiting Forks and LaPush (gorgeous beaches) from Twilight when I was in Washington state, as well as Debbie Macomber’s hometown, Port Orchard, and the inspiration for her Cedar Cove series.
Central and South America, all over Europe and Asia, and occasionally far beyond our solar system.
and a bit of Africa also
Savannah, Concord, London
Provence
New Orleans, Tibet, New York, San Franscisco, Australia, all over Europe, Africa, China, Russia, the middle east,…and alot of alternate realities.
Russian, France, Guatemala, China, WWII just to name a few
Hogwarts
I began a “read across America” adventure last year, reading at least one book with a strong sense of place in each state or a book by an author native to the state. Such fun! Must say I was drawn to the western U.S. Thank you, Ivan Doig!
Pre-civil war south.
Cuba, Arizona, Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, every state in the U.S. and so many cities, Greater Kansas City (my home!), on and on . . . . Wow. So many more to list. What a fun prompt, Renee. Though I’ve traveled through books, this particular one has traveled with me to Spain, Andorra, Brazil, Red Bud Indian Reservation, Arizona, California, Mali, and Canada:”Passionate Journey” by Franz Masereel.
Another world. The Talisman
New Orleans : Dave Robicheaux novels by James Lee Burke.
Bangor Maine! Stephen King’s sidewalk! Even though I didn’t catch a glimpse of the “King of Horror”, it was a very surreal experience for me and it was my love of reading that lead me there!
The deep, frighteningly canny south in Swamplandia!
Around the world, across the universe, back in time and far into the future! Reading takes you everywhere!
Mars, Scotland, New Hampshire, France. Love visiting new places!
Hawaii…
.The Wilderness….
Iceland….
The Jungle…
I carry a book with me at all times!!
All over British Isles.
London, Spain, Italy, New York, old time San Francisco, Austria, Germany, Australia, the Moors, New England, Hogwarts, Middle Earth, France, China, Japan. Oh, the list goes on! ??
New Orleans. After reading all The Vampire Chronicles books, I knew my way around the first time I went!!! It was an absolutely amazing experience!!
All over the U.S., France, Germany, Ireland, Haiti, Scotland, England, Spain, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Italy. …. Thanks to Anne Rice, Phillipa Gregory, Neil Gaiman, Leo Tolstoy, James Conroyd Martin, Kara Cooney, Anne Chambers, and really the list of places, authors, and books is much too long.
Tuscany, India- 3 times, Mitford, WWll London, Alabama (whistle stop cafe), New York City, Seattle, Italy/Switzerland, WW|| Germany, Chicago during the Colombian Exposition and these are just the places that come to mind quickly. there are couple dozens more.
Beaches of Normandy
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Africa
Too numerous to list. I am a world traveler and even outer space.
Reading Ben Israel by Arthur Katz right now. I love Israel! This book was published in 1970. I don’t know how many copies of it are around.
A farm in Africa
To the depths of my soul…
New York City in 1779
Savannah GA
Perelandra ( Venus), Mars ( Thulcandra), India, Somalia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran Israel Japan China Congo South Africa England France Spain Canada Denmark Scotland Ireland Belgium Italy Russia Poland Cuba Mexico Haiti Santo Domingo Ecuador Greece New York Oklahoma California Florida Virginia the Carolinas New Mexico Arizona Colorado Nevada Maine Connecticut Georgia Mississippi Germany Illinois Hawaii Vietnam and others I can’t think of right now.
Italy via Call me by your name
New Hampshire, Arizona, Toronto, South Carolina, Brooklyn, New York, Essex, UK, Paris, France, New York City, Texas…..
EVERYWHERE!
Vermont, Savannah, Charleston, Lexington, London, Paris, New York
What books for Savanna and Charleston? I am currently reading “The Sound of Glass” simply bc it is set in beaufort, SC ♡♡♡
@Stefanie the books are written by Karen white. They are a series so start with The House on Tradd Street. Also Mary Kay Andrews books are based in Savannah and tybee island.
From here to eternity, Heaven to hell, from the depths of the sea to Everest’s summit, many a journey to the center of my mind and the outer reaches of my soul!
Middle Earth, Arrakis, Japan, China, Westeros, Hogwarts, Jarrku, Countless Courtrooms, Egypt, on a train, on a ship, Sweden, London, The wild west, the Mississippi, and on and on the list goes…….
A secret annex, Prince Edward Island, Concord during the Civil War and after, Hogwarts, Panem, outer space in the future, and regency England, to name a few.
What is amazing about books is that I have not traveled much in my adult life, but I feel like I have been to dozens of places around the world and throughout time. Without books, I would be so sheltered from the experiences the rest of the world has to offer.
Venice, Paris, Poland, New York in the 1800’s….
England, Ireland, all across the US….some real places, some only in the imagination of the writer.
Boston Public Garden when I was about 5. Because of Make Way for Ducklings. This trip has been repeated each generation.
I finally saw the ducklings this spring, and then was delighted to see Little Bear and a pail of blueberries in Boothbay Maine!
Right now I am in Finland ?? but was in Russia ?? earlier in the book and this is just from today ? too many to name otherwise
My current read has taken me to Louisiana and just outside the Chicago area .
( I’m reading a Sookie Stackhouse book ) ?
Oh my gosh! I love that series just because I love the setting! The town, the bar, and ESPECIALLY her grandmas house! I felt like I had actually LIVED in that house by the end of it, even knowing where the creaky board in the stairs was! ♡♡♡♡
The books definitely paint a great picture ?
Me too! I’m reading Living Dead in Dallas. Dookie and Bill just arrived in Texas.
I said Sookie but it autocorrect ed
Across the Oregon Trail!
My current book has me in DC and Virginia. I’ve been to the Ozarks, Montana, Paris, Stockholm to name a few. ?
Misselthwaite Manor, Longbourne, Pemberly, The Palace of Versailles, The Tower of London, Ancient Egypt, Mount Olympus, Pern….
Thrity Umrigar has taken me several times to India, love her books!
Right now…Baltimore
Read Michener’s Hawaii in Hawaii!
Alaska, The Great Alone
I just finished the Martian ten minutes ago so Mars.
Panem, Scotland, Southwest VA, Atlanta…better question: where have books NOT taken me? I could not list all the places I have been with good books.
Right now…Manchester, England circa the mid to late 1980’s.
Boulder, Colorado
New York City on 9/11.
Wow! That was an emotional day. I can’t imagine.?
The book is “The Light We Lost.” I’m reading it for a book club. I could not put this book down!
@Natalie thank you for sharing the title! I will add it to my list!
At the moment, 19th century London
Right now- post civil war era
Right now, France in 1941, The Baker’s Secret; New York City, The Goldfinch; and South Carolina lowcountry in The Water is Wide.
The water is wide, one of my favorite by Pat Conroy’s.
@Libby I love his books. The Prince of Tides is my fave of his, so far. I live in Savannah right across the Intracoastal Waterway from Beaufort and Bluffton S.C.. He describes it beautifully and perfectly.
Back in May of 2017 I was in Beaufort and tried to go by his house but it was a gated community. I’ve read all his books. Beach Music 3 times. He was a great cook too.
@Libby I was so sad when he passed away. The language in his books was so lyrical and beautiful. Where are you from?
S.E.GA. waycross
Oh well we’re practically neighbors!
Keep reading
Narnia
Australia, Alabama, I’ve been to New York City many times, Tulsa, Ohio, Washington State.
All the Light We Cannot See inspired a trip to Paris and Saint-Malo France
I am currently visiting Tara waiting for news of the war.
I do not travel without books. Remember reading The Great Gatsby at the Grand Canyon.
Texas!
I’m in Scotland right now – book wise, I mean!❤️?
England, India, China
Just got back from Morocco-Tangerine. Right now, New York/Hollywood – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
How was Tangerine? I have it but haven’t started it
Around the world, to the moon, to Mars…
Brooklyn where the Tree Grew and China where The Good Earth resided.
Loved both those books
Loved The Good Earth. I’ve read it 3 times over the years.
Prince Edward Island
To the edges of the galaxy and beyond… Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, frank Herbert, C.J. Cherryh, Andre Norton, Madeleine L’Engle….
I’me out in the old West helping to break horses in ( The heart of a horse ) by Molly Glass.
Hogwarts
Me too
I tend to read several books at once. Does anyone else do this? My late husband could not figure out how I kept them straight and switched gears from one to the other. To me it’s similar to taking several different classes in school. The book is the classroom. When you open the book, you enter the classroom and your brain adjusts to address the new subject. I’ve done this all my life. I always thought it was normal.
So do I. It’s like seeing friends at school and other friends at church. And then there are the cousins at the family reunion. You can keep every one straight and pick up where you left off with each group.
I do this too. But it is becoming more difficult as I am getting older. ??
I do the same. They are usually two entirely different subjects.
I’m always reading multiple books at once, usually in different formats (audiobook, Kindle, one on my phone, occasionally a physical book). It’s a good way to get in extra reading whenever I have a few spare minutes.
All the time!! ?
I do this too. Right now I’m reading five at once, though separated by three different formats.
Physical books:
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence
“Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
E-books:
“Barchester Towers” by Anthony Trollope
“The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century” by Peter Watson
Audiobook:
“Moby-Dick, or The Whale” by Herman Melville (LibriVox audiobook read by Stewart Wills)
Personally, I don’t see how I could possibly get any of these confused. Aside from the fact that one is nonfiction, it’s also the case that they all take place in circumstances far removed from each other. I’d have to forget that Barchester is a 19th century English cathedral city rather than the deck of a ship and expect someone to pop up and harpoon the conniving Mr. Slope to get “Barchester Towers” confused with “Moby-Dick” and I’d have to think that an 18th century French viscount had been jolted out of his place and rapidly descended the economic ladder to become a groundskeeper working under a pseudonym in order to confuse “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” with “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”. I think people would only be at risk of confusing plot lines if they only read books that were substantially similar.
Me too. Have three going now.
Good analogy! I’ve always juggled several books at once and never considered it unusual. Your analogy describes the phenomenon perfectly!
Probably my most exotic destination has been the Norse communities in 14th-century Greenland. Also Botswana, Siberia and Earthsea.
England, Minnesota, China, Japan, Isla Nublar, Narnia.
Dublin
Scotland, twice. Thank you, Diana Gabaldon, and “Outlander”.
Africa, India, Argentina and many many other places both in time and on a planet far, far away!
The bottom of the ocean
The prehistoric period and I couldn’t get enough! Transport yourself when reading The Clan of the Cave Bear series, NOT to be confused with the horrible movie by that title! I’ve read five of the books more than once and can’t wait to reread the whole series again. ?
Really enjoying Scotland at the moment.
Almost everywhere on the planet.
And off the planet, too!
Japan, Norway, Scotland, England, Paris…
Tuscany; Provence,; Lancaster, PA; Seattle, WA; Rome, Venice
The amazon
Oz
Scotland, Ireland, England, Poland, France, Italy, Botswana, South Africa, China, Iran, Israel, India, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Sudan.
The Citadel.
Paris during WWII.
Our Book Club has read many books from that era that have been wonderful and one month we all chose different biographies of Coco Chanel thinking she was a double agent spying on Nazis…..not really and the truth was so shocking. Guess we were extremely naive!
New York City to visit The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge.
Bhutan, China, Nepal, Italy, Middle Earth…
Hobbiton, Rivendell, Rohan, Minas Tirith and Gondor!
Japan, Shogun Series by James Clavell
Middle Earth
Westeros
Many times to Paris!
Streets of nyc… loading docks for fish in Chinatown.. Oklahoma country hills..
A better question would be where a book hasn’t taken you. You can go places you can never visit in real life.
Mauritius
Currently, 18th century Paris and the outlying country areas (“Les Liaisons Dangereuses”), an English country estate (“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”), the cathedral city of Barchester and its outlying districts (“Barchester Towers”), all over early 20th century Europe and America, especially Vienna, Paris, and New York (“The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century”), and New Bedford, Nantucket, and the open sea (“Moby Dick”).
Outer space
2001 and 2010 Space Odyssey.
Space
Edinburgh
Fitzroy square, London
On a road trip through the United States.
The French Revolution (Tale of Two Cities)
All over the Universe.
USA…..and other countries + outer space
The Moors, seaside castles, caves, on a riverboat, on a fire escape ♥️ I’ve been all over!! LOVE my books!!
While reading, I have gotten to travel back in time, into the future, to Hogwarts, across the US (New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and many more), to England, Ireland, France, Italy, Russia, China, India, Afghanistan, Australia, China, and currently Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Civil War: Gone With The Wind
Bhutan
Scotland
Europe, Africa and the South Pacific during WWII, as well as the home front during the same time. London thanks to Dickens, and my favorite, Prince Edward Island with Anne. Even went to see Green Gables, it was wonderful.
Never read more than 1 book at a time!
Quebec City- Bury Your Dead Louise Penny tour- amazing!
South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Antartica, China, pretty much every continent, country, era, and outer space. Even the corners of the human heart and soul. There’s no place a book cannot take you.
Australia and New Guinea.
South Africa
Inside a peach.
England (James Herriot), California (John Steinbeck), New Zealand, Spain, Gibralter, Mexico, Western Canada, Eastern Canada, Florida, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and many more. Whenever I read a book, the setting/locale always makes me want to see that place.
Norway, Sweden, all over the US
Thru Stonehedge.
I usually have a couple going at the same time. Depends on my mood and how much time I have to read.
Medieval and Renaissance UK ( The geographics are hard to explain)
All over Great Britain
The Banda Islands
Prince Edward Island, England (past & present), Narnia and Africa, just to name a few ☺️
Marruecos
Australia, Greece, France, England, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Prince Edward Island, states in the US, Germany, Austria, Russia, Poland, Mexico, the islands of the Caribbean, the northern countries of Africa (with Mrs Pollifax). Probably more….
I named my daughter for a character in Philippa Carr’s “Witch From the Sea”, set in Cornwall. My daughter is Tamsyn.
Currently, Trenton, NJ – Hardcore Twenty-Four, Janet Evanovich
Mordor
Botswana
Stirling and Doune, Scotland. To be fair, I went to Scotland before the books were written, read Outlander and fell more in love with Scotland, then went to Stirling and Doune because of the TV show filming locations based on book.
The easiest answer is everywhere I have never been, including walking in the shoes of others!
Tara, Savannah, Ga. Texas, Ireland, Washington, Montana. Are a few.
The Eight – all over the world !
Hogwarts, Over the rainbow, Great Britain and Ireland, Egypt, Europe, down under, wonderland, fionvar, a WWII concentration camp, Prince Edward Island, a little house in the prairie and across the US…..
18th century Scotland ???????
1742 ???????
1776 ??
1558 ??
Lol!!!!!!!!!
Hogwarts
A dump in Cambodia post Khmer Rouge
Nepal, India, Alaska, All of the American west!
Recently I’ve been to Gion, Hogwarts, a train and Manderly.
Culloden
Right now I’m on Mars and in London.
.. Sichuan, China .. (Soul Mountain)
Currently in the middle of the ocean.
Tarawa, Kiribati in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Downton Abbey, Tara, The White House, Buckingham Palace….
India, Alaska,British Isles,Russia,Argentina, Mexico,Egypt,Germany,Virginia,Italy,Greece,New Zealand, Australia, Rhodesia,Israel, France and Sweden.
Malaysia, Hong Kong, The Middle East, Provence, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Newfoundland, South Africa, Mississppi, Hawaii….. oh heck just put on Jonny Cash. I’ve been everywhere, man. I’ve been everywhere, man…
I think the book with the setting that most impacted me was Ethiopia in Cutting for Stone.
I forgot about Ethiopia. I loved being there.
Lots of England, Australia, Africa, China, the moon, Mars, many other planets, many eras.
‘oh the places you will go’
Away. ❤️?❤️
England,Africa,Inwdia,Australia,South American,Egypt,Scotland…
Bangor, Maine
Cornwall-and I eventually got there in person!
Africa, China, Japan, Australia, Eastern Europe, The Middle East, South America, 13th Century Europe. This is how I travel in my mind to places I will never actually see.
The Un-United Kingdom
Too many to name
Today I went to Chile, with Isabelle Allende
Too many to name. At present, l am on Cape Cod trying to ” solve a murder” !
I like Appalachia
I love visiting Ireland and England through Maeve Binchy!
Pre-Civil War south, post war Virginia and Ohio. Also, Hitler’s Germany, France, to name a few.
Japan: Memoirs of a Geigha
New Almaden Mine, 19th Century.
Christy
Russia, Germany, England, France, Italy, the Phillipines, Hawaii, California, Virginia, New Mexico, under the ocean, and up in the sky (all in a two book series). Of course, it involved going back in time (Herman Wolk, Winds of War, War and Rememberance)
Savannah – “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”
Hogwarts! (still waiting for my letter)
Guernsey Island. I liked it there and the people were noce
Devon-God is an Englishman, Yorkshire-All Things Bright and Beautiful, Paris-Les Miserables, London-Oliver Twist, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Middle Earth-The Lord of the Rings, the Dust Bowl-the Grapes of Wrath, Arkansas-A Painted House, Southern Alabama-A Redbird Christmas
Everywhere, real or imaginary: Narnia!
Atlanta, Williamsburg, Bronte Parsonage in England, Monet’s Home, Seattle, Austin
Since these are some of my favorite places I have to ask what the book is
Hogwarts, Maycomb, up to Heaven with Suzie Salmon. Into Narnia, alchemy, Where The Red Fern Grows, and into a cupboard with a certain Indian.
I’ve learned from a chocolatier, dove into Stephen King both for chills and fear. Read Nicholas Sparks when my notebook was empty. Read and cried through Love Story when my reading got too heavy.
I’ve partied with Gatsby. Watched the sun also rise with Jake. Cried for Gus with Hazel Grace.
I had to give props to The Hate U Give. I spent my Tuesdays With Morrie and often go back again and again.
Angela’s Ashes showed me that, no matter how many lashes or how much strife a soul may take, finding the story in a life can set a reader free.
I don’t know what I’ll read next. All I know is: Reading is for me!
*Grin.*
Looks like you have a flair for writing yourself?
I do try. Tell that to the agents I’m seeking. LOL
HOGWARTS, Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley, (HP locations are probably my favorite) London, Paris, Italian countryside, all of the USA. Space. (I’m sure there are more)
In my dreams: Rivendell, & the Undying Lands
India, Australia,Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Japan, China Iran ,Iraq Holland…
….Camelot, London, Paris, golden age Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Africa, colonial America, Rivendell, Hogwarts, Russia, China, Japan, and so many places in between….and all without polluting the environment! Fly books; they’re less expensive…and better for the planet! : )
Moscow, with a Gentleman.
I was a really, really pale child who could tolerate about 15 minutes in the sun before burning. I was a rural child on a red clay road. I traveled the world in my mind from a swing on the front porch. We didn’t have money for books but we had a library card. Books and television where there to take me everywhere, even to Mars. I
Damar – The Blue Sword. India – The Far Pavilions
Love McKinley. The Blue Sword is a favorite for sure.
Loved the Far Pavilions
Siddhartha – India; To whom the bell tolls – Spain
Siberia
Colombia, all of Garcia Marquez books, Peru, Abril Rojo (red April)
Every continent
I think I’ve been everywhere…past, present and future. Historical fiction is my favorite at the moment. Hated history in school.
I did too ! If only they had taught history with stories !
Hated geography but now thanks to books I know and love the world better.
sailed on sea voyages with amazing captains, was a slave down south during slavery, visited other dimensions, and planets alike, Ive herded ranches out west, been a millionaire and a pauper. Ive been the US president, a Geisha in Japan, a student in the wizarding world, a child, a mother, a Grandfather. Ive been everywhere, and done everything-all with my nose planted firmly in a book !
Mostly, to the past and occasionally the future.. currently my book has taken me to Ceylon.
Pern
All over
Check out Renee’s Reading Club for great book recommendations ?
India…