Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme was:
Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit (whether fictional or real)
Most of the books I read are set in fictional places that you DO NOT want to visit, but here are a few with incredible ones I’d definitely like to see.
Fictional:
Cabeswater (The Raven Cycle books by Maggie Stiefvater)
Diagon Alley (Harry Potter series by JK Rowling) – and now I can (sort of) go! Hope to go to Orlando next year. 🙂
Mercy Falls (The Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater)
Neverland (duh. Peter Pan by JM Barrie)
Gotham (Yeah, it’d be a little crazy, but Batman. And Robin. Lots and lots of authors)
Real:
Amazingly and fortunately and luckily, number one here is a place I’ve actually been: Scotland (The Inspector Rebus series by Ian Rankin)
Paris (several books, but mostly significantly Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins)
Pittsburg (The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky) – I’ve actually been there, but it was for a baseball game. I want to ride under that bridge like Charlie, Sam, and Patrick do.
Alaska (several books, but most recently Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid)
Japan (A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki)
What about you? Where have books made you want to go? Link me up to your TTT!
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Prince Edward Island is on my bucket list thanks to Anne of Green Gables. I remember a Michael Smith lecture in Literature of the South in which he discussed the way Southern writers could depict a landscape better than those of many other regions. And while I agree that that ability is unique to the South, I also remember thinking that this Canadian, L.M. Montgomery, had done as good a job as anyone I had ever read.
I don’t know if I necessarily agree, but I do think that Montgomery did a wonderful job with that setting. I would like to visit Prince Edward Island too!
What a fab list and love the pictures and graphics to go along! Yes to Paris–I never get tired of visiting! Also, I love that you included Neverland on your list like I did. I haven’t read the Mercy Falls series but am intrigued…
The Wolves of Mercy Falls is a really cool series. I love books that don’t do myths in normal ways. So it has werewolves but Stiefvater has redone the werewolf myth. I love the way they change and why they are wolves. 🙂
I’d love to go to Japan, but I wonder how I would do there. Maybe if I was way out in the country?
Here’s my Places Books Have Made Me Visit!
Japan would be a really cool place to visit. I think I’d also have to go out in the country too. That’s where all the cool places are anyway! 🙂
I’ve read so many versions of Neverland that it seems a little scary to visit–but it’d be an adventure for sure!
Cabsewater was such a creative choice! I loved all the scenes when they venture there in the book, but to be honest it seems kind of spooky as well and I think I’d be more intimidated than not to stumble across it in real life!
Haha. Yeah, I do think it’d be a little terrifying to explore, but that’s all the more fun. Lol. 🙂
I need to go back to Scotland, I loved it when I went there for 2 weeks, so pretty!
SO pretty! Where did you go?
My parents took me to the Moray Firth for 2 weeks when I was 11 because I was *obsessed* with dolphins :3 went to a little sea village called Port knockie. Lovely!
That sounds wonderful!
highly recommend it!
I see we both want to visit Neverland and Cabeswater. Perhaps we can carpool? My ttt: http://shereadssheblogs.com/2014/10/14/top-ten-tuesday/
I definitely think we should road trip to Cabeswater AND Neverland. I’m sure we’ll see the second star to the right once we get to Cabeswater. 🙂
Smart thinking! Then it’s just straight on til morning!
Exactly! ❤
Oh, such an amazing TOP 10 Tuesday, your choices are all amazing! We have so many books and places in common. I published my TTT too on my blog if you want to come and check it out 🙂
🙂 Thanks!! I’ll go check yours out now.
I just read Let’s Get Lost, but I have always wanted to go to Alaska. Definitely up for Hogwarts or Diagon Alley. You might want to check out Jordan Romero’s Seven Summits too! Then you might have to climb Denali! Ill have to think about what other places I want to go from books I’ve read:~) Great post.
I’ll have to check that book out! Thanks for the recommendation! 🙂
I didnt even think about Cabeswater. And I cant believe I forgot Neverland!
I just think Cabeswater would be so interesting. Fun and a little terrifying to explore.
Cabeswater for sure!!!! Great list Stef.
Riiiight? It’d be so cool to explore that. Thanks!
Love the images especially that animated gif. Oh did you know that @simonteen is organising a #simonteenchat with Stephen Chbosky & Ellen Hopkins?
Oooppps back to TTT. Here are my picks. Feel free to comment http://ssreaderscorner.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/ten-places-books-have-made-me-want-to-visit/
WHAT? No, I didn’t. I’m going to have to check that out. I would love to chat with Stephen Chbosky! Thanks for the headsup!
Thanks for stopping by. Heading to check out yours now. 🙂
It’s so intriguing to me that you picked Diagon Alley over Hogwarts. Also good call on Neverland. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that one.
I would love to go to Hogwarts as well, but Diagon Alley is so diverse. All the shops. Nocturn Alley. Haha. I just think it’d be fun. Plus, can you say Flourish and Blotts? 😀
Good point!