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July 23, 2019


top ten settings i’d like more of
posted by soe 12:11 am

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share ten settings we’d like to see more of in our reading. Mine are a little bit all over the place, incorporating both time and place, general and specific:

  1. New England (Home!)
  2. Washington, D.C. (Don’t we all want to read more books set where we live? But do it well or I’ll call you out!)
  3. The beach (I’d like more of the beach in every aspect of my life.)
  4. Christmas (I’m a sucker for books set at the winter holidays.)
  5. Wales (A country within a country, and a beautiful one at that.)
  6. The South of France (Cute villages, sunflowers, cycling, film festivals…)
  7. PEI (A third of why we love Anne is the setting, right?)
  8. Campgrounds (I feel like I should think about writing a mystery series set in campgrounds, but would someone keep camping after their second murder? Other than the Scooby-Doo gang, of course.)
  9. Libraries/bookstores (Obviously.)
  10. Valentine’s Day (Why aren’t there more romances set at this holiday? Or maybe there are and I just haven’t found them…)

How about you? Do you have settings that you prefer in your reading?

Category: books. There is/are 10 Comments.



Some nice settings here.

Comment by Davida Chazan 07.23.19 @ 12:43 am

Lots of good choices here, but…campgrounds! That is an awesome one I really DON’T see a lot of.

Comment by RS 07.23.19 @ 1:24 am

I’d definitely like to see more stories set in PEI!

My TTT.

Comment by Lydia 07.23.19 @ 6:11 am

I am on board for all of these!

Comment by Bridget 07.23.19 @ 7:23 am

I like books set around Christmas too! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.

Comment by Poinsettia 07.23.19 @ 7:36 am

Campground and libraries are a good idea!
My ttt
http://www.thehauntedgravebooks.com/2019/07/top-ten-tuesday-setting-i-would-like-to.html

Comment by Renee Lake 07.23.19 @ 9:42 am

Libraries and bookstores are always fun. Campgrounds might creep me out too much since we camp a bunch.

Comment by Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse 07.23.19 @ 2:16 pm

Ooh Wales is a good choice. I like books set during Christmas too but for me that’s summer, so sometimes reading about snow and stuff is really weird. I know Northern Hemisphere people tend to feel the same way about reading books set during a summer Christmas!

Comment by Bree @1girl2manybooks 07.23.19 @ 8:38 pm

I have a true scary camping story for you!!!! email me

Comment by kathy b 07.23.19 @ 8:44 pm

A campground would be an interesting setting… although most people don’t stay there very long so depending on the genre, it might only be one of the settings.

Comment by Brooke Lorren 07.24.19 @ 1:40 pm