The Tuesday Memes

This week's Top Ten Tuesday, asks bloggers to list “Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit (whether fictional or real)”. I'm immediately reminded of Robert Heinlein's “Lost Legacy”, the longest story in Assignment in Eternity. In this story, a group of academic discover how to use telepathy. They feel drawn to Mt. Shasta in California, and once there, they discover a colony of adepts who train them in many paranormal capabilities and recruit them to help rid the world of power-seeking evil. Since reading the story as a teenager, I had longed to visit Mt. Shasta and I finally had the opportunity in August 2007.

I know I won't visit all the places that I'm attracted to—heck, it's not possible to visit some of them. That doesn't really dash my dreams, though.

Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit

1. Mt. Shasta; from Assignment in Eternity by Robert Heinlein
2. Pern; from Dragonflight and the rest of the Pern novels by Anne McCaffrey
3. Mars; from Red Planet and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
4. Melbourne, Australia; from Cocaine Blues and the rest of the Phryne Fisher mysteries by Kerry Greenwood
5. Alaska; from the Kate Shugak mysteries by Dana Stabenow and Alex Jensen mysteries by Sue Henry
6. Scottish Highlands; from Death of a Gossip and the rest of Hamish MacBeth mysteries by M C Beaton also from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
7. Montségur and the Languedoc region of France; from The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan
8. Botswana; from The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
9. Egypt; from Crocodile on the Sandbank and the rest of the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
10. Anywhere in space; from the hundreds of space fiction books that I have read in my lifetime

 

I also thought it might be fun to toss in a Teaser Tuesday post.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser

“I want what every leader wants. I want to protect my Clan. My people have been in flux since the Great Collision. I want to bring calm and prosperity and peace to my people.” — from Stone Guardian by Danielle Monsch