I also timed my reading of The Constant Gardner to coincide with my trip to Kenya. If I recall, we were staying reasonably close to the embassy residence area described within. It's a nice way to travel, novel in hand. I'll do it again, given the smallest opportunity.
She growls?! You made her so she growls?!
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2007 6:30:06 pm PST #4325 of 28260
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Nov 24, 2007 7:19:58 pm PST #4326 of 28260
Because books.
Because, probably, I can be a total girl, I would love to visit Bronte country. I think the atmosphere of the moors as much as that weird, tight-knit little family, informed a lot of their writing.
I would also love to see Orchard House (is that it?), Louisa May Alcott's childhood home.
I've been to the Whitehorse Tavern, though. And had a drink for Dylan Thomas.
Susan W. - Nov 24, 2007 7:22:29 pm PST #4327 of 28260
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh, I can't believe I forgot this one--when DH and I were living in England and dating, we had a pint at the Eagle & Child in Oxford (Inklings' favorite pub).
DavidS - Nov 24, 2007 7:29:17 pm PST #4328 of 28260
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've been to the Whitehorse Tavern, though. And had a drink for Dylan Thomas.
I've been there too. And had my friend read my tarot cards there.
erikaj - Nov 24, 2007 7:35:11 pm PST #4329 of 28260
Always Anti-fascist!
was she right?
DavidS - Nov 24, 2007 8:02:54 pm PST #4330 of 28260
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
was she right?
It was a good reading. She's a neurologist - very precise.
P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2007 8:07:20 pm PST #4331 of 28260
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Has anybody here made a literary pilgrimage? I don't know that I have really.
Hell, I lived within walking distance of the Blue Moon [link] after I turned 21, and STILL failed to do so. Which is really as much of a literary pilgrimage as one can do in Seattle.
meara - Nov 24, 2007 10:05:18 pm PST #4332 of 28260
Let me suggest if you get to a strange city, and you're by yourself, and you think "It would be neat to read a novel set in this city while I'm here!", do NOT pick up a serial killer book set in the city you're in.
Scared the crap out of myself in Montreal that way...
Jessica - Nov 25, 2007 3:49:49 am PST #4333 of 28260
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When my grandparents still lived in Boston we would always drive past the salt and pepper bridge to see Mr and Mrs Mallard. I love that book.
Susan W. - Nov 25, 2007 5:46:04 am PST #4334 of 28260
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
The first time I was in Boston, the friend I was traveling with and I happened upon the swan boats, and I started babbling about The Trumpet of the Swan and how much I'd ADORED that book as a child. Val had never read it and looked at me like I was mildly crazy.
Reading as much historical fiction as I do, I have to confess that the line between historical and literary pilgrimage gets a bit blurred. E.g. at Culloden I was thinking of Jamie Fraser and not just the real-life tragedy of the place.