This week’s topics are so much alike that I’m doing a single post for both! Forgive me!
Fictional Places I’d Like To Visit:
Hogwarts
Manderey
the house in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca
The Bookmobile
in The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
(might run into you-know-who)
Marks & Cohen bookshop
in 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Brideshead
In Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
[or even the Castle Howard, the house that played it in the 80s tv version]
by Deborah Moggach
The Casson Family‘s House
in Hilary McKay’s series
OR
The Penderwicks House on Gardham Street or the NY Apartment of the Melendy Family
The Geisha’s training house
in Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Professor’s study in his old house
(I know I’d be instantly “at home” there)
in The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
Read my review here
Skeldale House
In James Herriot’s All Creatures books
Bonus: The May of Teck Club
in Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Read my review here
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Places I’d Like to Take a Date To:
1. The B/B & Bistro in Three Pines owned by Gabri and Olivier in the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny.
2. Any club where Tony and Chichi were singing—Tony’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
3. The Music Shop [book of same title] to find the VINYL records I stupidly gave away
4. That amazing dinner in Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Read my review here
5. The Miss Delta Floozy Contest in Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly
Review, from my old blog: What’s not to like about a small Southern town with a “Miss Delta Floozy” contest? Or, for that matter, what’s not to love about a 50-something widow finding love for the second time with a handsome man who used to own a ballroom dance studio? Second Creek, Mississippi, is a town you’d want to call your own. Full of loveable wackos–most of whom are faithful friends and helpful neighbors. Laurie Lapanto and her “Nit Wits”–a group of widows who support and care for each other have a large presence in this small town. And, when their beloved Mr. Choppy’s IGA store is threatened with closure they come up with a fabulous plan to save the story. An old rumor adds spice to the mix. Waltzing at the Piggly-Wiggly by Robert Dalby.
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Oh, the geisha’s training house is a good answer. That would be a very eye-opening trip I’m sure.
My Top Ten Tuesday post.
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Can I be your date for the meal at the Three Pines bistro? I’m hoping it would snow so much we’d have to stay longer than planned.
Many of your other choices are equally special. Castle Howard has a glorious setting though there were not many rooms available to view when we went – that was 30 years ago though that might have changed
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Absolutely you can come with me!!
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Oooooh, Brideshead! Had forgotten about it completely. I seem to remember a library and gardens…
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Yes–and Charles painting in a garden-ish room? My mind is covered with the tv series images–Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews so young, hanging out on the roof of Castle Howard
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The Bookmobile sounds fun! And I’ve never read the Gamache books but they sound great and I’ve heard good things. Sounds like a cozy place. 🙂
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I’d love to roam around in Manderley! Minus creepy Mrs. Danvers, of course.
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You can come along with Jeanne and me!
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Manderly – that would be amazing! 🙂
Check out my TTT, my Read Harder Challenge Update, and my Monstrous March TBR
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The Bookmobile sounds interesting!! I guess I’ll have to read it to see who I might run into there. hehe
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