One of the things I’ve always loved about books and reading is how you can explore places you’ll never actually visit; you can travel the world without leaving your favorite chair.
On my Facebook author page, I asked this question: If you were transported to the setting of the book you’re currently reading, where would you be?
I just love the range of responses! Don’t you?
- I would be wildfire fighting on the West Coast…I am currently reading “Fire” by Sebastian Junger.
- Toes in the sand in Maui.
- In space, in our solar system, somewhere. If I’m the exact last place I left off, on a stolen Martian space ship.
- 1930s London!
- An island in Maine, Manhattan, Berlin.
- The beaches at Normandy.
- Canals in Cambridge
- Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Washington, DC, 2017-2019
- In the hospital
- The English countryside and Manhattan around the turn of the 20th century.
- Provincetown, The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
- North Carolina
- The seediest joints in Old Hollywood.
- Oxford England (Jeannette winterson memoir)
- Rural England, 1905
- Late 1980s: Miami, LA, and NYC (so far)
- In several places at once, as usual. Vienna, New York, London.
- The Troubador in LA
- Vermont late 1850’s
- 16 c Holland
- 1400s to 1940s Germany with the gypsies.
- Marietta, Ohio, in 1787. It was the first settlement of the Northwest Territory in the United States. “The Pioneers”, David McCullough.
- Barcelona (The Labyrinth of Spirits).
- Corfu. In the mid to late 1930s.
- Seattle
- Dublin
- Halifax, England, 1832
- Singapore
- Montana
- N. Korea
- 1920 Paris
- Beirut
- Seattle
- Maine.
- Chicago
- Rural Texas
Read on, everybody! If you’d like to add your current location, feel free, either over on Facebook or in the comments below!!