TOP TEN TUESDAY | PLACES IN BOOKS I’D LOVE TO LIVE

I love literary travels. I love feeling like I’ve been somewhere just because I’ve read about it, and I love when a made up place is so well written that I feel like it’s real. Here are some of the places I’ve read about and would love to go!

   

Of course the first thing that came to mind was Hogwarts. But I’d settle for anywhere in England, quite frankly, except possibly the cupboard under the stairs. I’d possibly be fine with that if something could be done about the spiders. Ever since reading Under the Tuscan Sun in high school I’ve wanted to visit Tuscany, but never had the chance. I don’t know if I’ll be able to travel again, but if I ever can, that’s somewhere I’d like to go.

           

I recently re-read The Secret Garden, and that garden is still somewhere I’d love to spend some time! I loved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse so much and the art in it made me want to step into that landscape with them. Durrell’s account of his time on Corfu with his family – and the wonderful TV series based on the book – made it seem like paradise. Guernsey isn’t somewhere I would have wanted to be during the war or even right after, but it is somewhere I’d like to visit one day. I loved the community that came together and the small-town feel to it. I know it’ll be different now, but hopefully some of that survived!

   

Love, Nina depicts an area of London where intelligent, literary people lived, and somewhere I would have loved to live (their neighbour was Alan Bennett!). Anne of Green Gables has some of the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever read (or seen in the films), and it’s still somewhere I think I’d love.

There are definitely more books that have made me want to go to lots of different places, but these are the ones that came to mind at the moment! What about you guys? Where would you like to live based on reading about it in a book? Are any of these on your list?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up feature created by The Broke and the Bookish and hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every week TTT has a different topic, and everyone who links up has to create a link of ten items that fit that topic. To see past and upcoming topics, go here.