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March 30, 2021


ten book settings i’d love to live in
posted by soe 1:35 am

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl invites readers to share the book settings where they’d most love to reside. Here are mine:

  1. BookWorld from Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next books, because then you’d have access to all the bookish settings. Is that cheating?
  2. The Burrow, because despite the ghoul in the attic and the gnomes in the garden, it’s overflowing with love.
  3. Prince Edward Island.
  4. Bandette’s Paris, as depicted by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover. Because who wouldn’t want to watch films en plein air on a rooftop and then Vespa over to the bookshop or stop for a chocolate bar?
  5. Marsyas Island, where you can find T.J. Klune’s The House on the Cerulean Sea. It’s sunny, it’s filled with forests and gardens, and everyone who lives there knows they are loved unconditionally.
  6. The Scottish Highlands, the setting of Jenny Colgan’s Bookshop on the Corner series
  7. Melbourne in the 1920s, because Phryne Fisher makes it seem super glamorous.
  8. Guernsey, especially when it’s not filled with Nazis.
  9. Midnight Gulch from A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd, with its ice cream company that lets you eat your feelings
  10. New York City, from every book ever written about it. I have visited NYC and absolutely do not want to live there in real life. But the love letters that authors pen to it, be it Nicola Yoon’s The Sun Is Also a Star or Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, or Karina Yan Glasser’s Vanderbeekers series makes me want to want to live there.

How about you? What books would you move into today if you could?

Category: books. There is/are 6 Comments.



Someday I must visit Prince Edward Island! Great pick there.

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Comment by Lydia 03.30.21 @ 8:24 am

Prince Edward Island is a popular choice and I would also like to go and visit. I also have Guernsey on my list and do hope that I will one day get to go there!

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Comment by Mareli @ Elza Reads 03.30.21 @ 9:33 am

The Burrow would be a great place to live. And yes, would love to explore 1920s Melbourne with Phryne! I’d also like to go to Guernsey, it looks beautiful. I’ve been to NYC before, but we only got to spend a few days there, so I’d love to go back and for longer.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/top-ten-tuesday-309/

Comment by Jo 03.30.21 @ 9:40 am

New York City is a great pick.

Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.

Comment by Astilbe 03.30.21 @ 5:07 pm

In the Alps with Heidi. Narnia, of course. Venice as described in “The Thief Lord” (Funke). Rivendell (Tolkien) or Elvendar (Feist), Chalco-Doror (Attanasio), Moonacre (Goudge), Gone-Away Lake (Enright), a museum (Konigsburg), or my own island (Steig, Wyss, and others).

Comment by Karen 03.30.21 @ 8:12 pm

Why didn’t I think of BookWorld? Great picks!

Comment by Lauren @ Always Me 04.01.21 @ 9:15 pm