Top Ten Tuesday: Books About/Set In Places on My Bucket List

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Today’s Prompt: Books About/Set In Places on My Bucket List

Oo I love this one! Now, how to narrow this down? *thinkthinkthink*

Iceland (Secret Nights and Northern Lights) has been a bucket list country for me for a long time. Knowing it is just a six hour flight from me, which doesn’t seem to bad, especially with no layovers, makes it seem slightly within reach? I would love to see the Northern Lights there. One reason I liked this book so much is that I feel like I learned along with the main character about places to see within the country.

The Giraffe Manor Hotel in Nairobi (Tea with Elephants): Talk about a dream!!! Ever since I learned this place existed I have wanted to go, but it is very expensive so I will have to just keep dreaming. While this book isn’t quite the same thing, it makes me think of a trip like that. And this series sounds really fun! I have this book on my potential Summer TBR.

Chincoteague: Technically, I have been here, but so briefly and I was so young that I don’t remember. So I want to “go back” and see it, and I want Wyatt to see it too. I have been saying it for years now, we just need to do it!

Peru (Secret of the Andes): I have never read this book, but I think about reading it all the time, especially with Wyatt. Lol. Maybe this summer. I feel like Peru is magical, with deserts, mountains, and a rainforest, and would just be so beautiful and diverse to visit, with so much to see and do.

Italy (Every Time I Go on Vacation Someone Dies): I would love to go to Italy. Anywhere in Italy, just send me there!

Loch Ness (Nessie Quest): I love cryptids, and the Loch Ness Monster is my favorite! I don’t believe in them (or do I?) but I would love to visit Scotland, and while it would be neat to see my family who lives there and see where my grandma and her family came from, I would really like to visit Loch Ness. And Edinburgh, just throwing that in there too.

Cornwall (Rebecca): I have no idea why I want to go to Cornwall so badly. I just do. I think I love the whole seaside of it, the history of the smugglers and the coves, and I find myself drawn to books set there.

California/Sequoia National Park (Kildee House): Ok, this is a place I have been but it is a bucket list for me to take Wyatt there to see the giant redwoods. They are so awe inspiring and amazing to see, I know he would love it too! I loved Kildee House, even though it made me cry a few times!!!

Japan (The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen): I chose this book in particular because while Tokyo seems like it would be neat, I would not want to be there long. I would rather visit quieter, more rural areas.

The Shire (The Hobbit): I would like to visit the Shire. Or live there. I could very easily be a hobbit..

And that is it from me today! I hope that whatever you do, you do something that makes you smile!

44 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Books About/Set In Places on My Bucket List”

  1. This is such a fun list! I love the idea of seeing Loch Ness in person, I’m sure it’s a little eerie. And the Misty of Chincoteague book takes me way back, since I had a copy when I was a kid😁

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  3. Joanne's avatar Joanne

    Oh gosh I have so many places on my bucket list that it would be hard to narrow down my book list too– I definitely thought the setting to Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies sounded wonderful as did One Italian Summer (even if I didn’t enjoy the story line that setting sounded AMAZING!

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  6. Chincoteague!!! This is majorly on my bucket list, and I would LOVE to make it for a Pony Penning, although I probably can’t actually bring one home so that might not be quite as fun, haha … The long tunnel-under-the-bay drive makes my brain twitchy though, and I’m not sure there’s a way to avoid it. But Chincoteague!!!

    Also the Shire. I could 1000% live there.

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    1. I have been dreaming about going back for ages and ages now!! And you would have to get a pony, for both of us. LOL. I have to live vicariously through you when it comes to farm life!

      Tunnels like that are horrifying, I agree. I was just telling Wyatt and my niece about the Detroit-Windsor tunnel that goes under the Detroit River between our countries. We took it a few times when I was a kid and it scared the crap out of me. I don’t think I could do it now.

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      1. Maybe that’s how I can justify getting one: for the people! 😀 LOL

        I realize there are reasons they must make tunnel roads like that, but seems like there should be other options nowadays … because eesh!

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  9. I’ve been to Italy a couple of times, but it’s still on my bucket list! Such a beautiful country with so many places to see. I love the sound of Tea With Elephants, it’s gone straight on my TBR

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  10. This is a great list, Erin. I actually went to Loch Ness when my daughter and I visited Scotland several years ago. We did a boat tour, and then the museum. It was a lot of fun. I hope you get to some of these places and your son does as well.

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  19. marsha57's avatar marsha57

    My dream has always been to see the Northern Lights, but I think I’d go to Norway. I hear the flight into Iceland is quite bumpy. I have been to Edinburgh, and it’s just as wonderful as you imagine. I loved the book about Italy and would love to go there, too. There are so many places and so little time! Loved reading your list, Erin!

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    1. Wouldn’t it be amazing to see the Northern Lights? Such a dream of mine! I guess we could go to the UP but … maybe not as fun. Lol.

      I think Edinburgh would be such an amazing city, all the history that is there! My mom’s cousin lives there too, and her children.

      There really are just so many places to go aren’t there?

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