The prompt this week was places from books you DO want to visit, but I’ve done that before (places in books I’d like to live here, places books have made me want to visit here, and favourite book settings here). I’ve even done one that’s a combo of places I want to go and places I don’t want to go. But I haven’t done one exclusively full of places I don’t want to visit, so I thought I’d focus on that rather than do the same thing… again. (Yeah, I’ve been around this link up for a while.) So here are some of the book settings I definitely don’t want to spend time in, regardless of how good the book was!
That’s it for me this week! What about you guys? Which literary locations topped your list this week? Do you have any you really don’t want to visit? Would any of my picks show up on either of your lists?
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.
I had a mix of places I do and don’t want to visit with this prompt. Top of my do NOT want to visit would definitely be the house in Mexican Gothic, going to avoid any haunted places
Oh I haven’t read Mexican Gothic, because I’m terrified of anything that has even a hint of being spooky! I can’t do horror films either. So while I haven’t read the book, I think it’s safe to say I wouldn’t want to go there either!
I love the twist you did for this week’s topic!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/7-bookish-places-i-want-to-visit/
Thank you! I couldn’t face creating the same list again and couldn’t think of enough places I hadn’t already used! It ended up being quite an easy post, I have to say…
You and I were thinking alike this week. My list is also about places I don’t want to visit. Ha! My TTT list of places I don’t want to visiti
Great minds think alike, as they say! (I’ll ignore the “fools seldom differ” part…. lol) I enjoyed this once I got going. Interesting how many fictional places there are that I definitely don’t want to go!
Hahahaha – I actually mention The Heart of Gold in my post as somewhere I wanted to visit. LOL
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Okay so I totally missed that that’s the name of the ship from Hitchhiker’s. I had to look it up! I was sitting there going okay, which book is that from? Did I forget something in a book I read a long time ago? NOPE. Just completely missed that in a book I read this year! Gah! But actually you’re right, the ship itself sounds like an interesting adventure, though I don’t really want to go to some of the other places they went!
What a fun take on the Top Ten topic!
Stop by and see the places I’d like to visit!
Thank you! I couldn’t think of any places I’d like to visit that I haven’t already shared at least twice! Lol
I switched out my topic too this week as I’ve also done various variations on places from books I’d like to visit (fellow Top Ten Tuesday veteran here!).
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/top-ten-tuesday-379/
Ooooh interesting! Yeah, it can get difficult to do the same prompts over and over unless they’re ones that change over time (like seasonal TBRs). I find that the hardest part of TTT!
Me too, for sure!
Great tweak of the prompt. Agree, agree, agree…I’d not want to go to the land of Ready Player One or Lord of the Rings or Station Eleven or Cloud Cuckoo Land!
Haha! Yep, I didn’t think I’d get much disagreement on the majority of my picks!
What a fun twist to this week’s topic! Yeah, some settings are places that would never be fun to visit in real life.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-set-in-a-place-id-love-to-visit/
Yes, it’s funny, but they often stand out to me more. Maybe because most of the places I’d like to visit are real, and therefore are just places I already know about (like Italy) rather than ones made up for a particular book or series. This week’s was easier than I expected it to be, though!
Glad to see I’m not the only one who really didn’t want to be caught up in a dystopian world!!
Clever twist.
Happy TTT!
Elza Reads
Definitely not. Although, I can’t help feeling that we kind of are, with how things have been going over the past few years…..
I love the switch up! I have to admit it did take me a second—I was staring at The Marrow Thieves thinking to myself, aren’t they brutally hunted and murdered in that book? I think that’d definitely make my list of places I wouldn’t want to go either!
Hahahahaha! Yeah, I probably confused more than a few readers this week, for sure!