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Read a book with a place in the title.
It can be a city, a country, real, or imaginary!

I can't wait to travel!

Don't forget your passport!

City - London


Life in London: Or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis by Pierce Egan



✅ 01/06/22

I love London Cozy_Pug, but this time i'm going to Berlin!

✅Goodbye to Berlin (1939) - Christopher Isherwood

I’m traveling to a place that I last visited about two decades ago. The Merchant of Venice.

Chad I looked at The Merchant of Venice and then the booklist that was next to it...and found The Jew of Malta. I have been very interested in Niccolò Machiavelli, after reading The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization.

Machiavel expresses the cynical view that power is amoral, saying "I count religion but a childish toy, / And hold there is no sin but ignorance."[1] wiki

This reminds me of A Christmas Carol, and the two children under the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ignorance and Want. And Scrooge in the Counting house is like Barabas in the counting house, where we first meet both men.

ala baba in the A Christmas Carol The Arabian Nights
"the Arabians are well off (compared to me) Give me the merchants of the Indian mines, = the mines of India were proverbial for their mineral
wealth, and a favourite allusion of Marlowe's.
20 That trade in metal of the purest mould; = quality

Also reading The Master and Margarita. Finding so many connections...such as Barabas...who is the Jew of Malta but also the one they free at the trial of Jesus Christ.

In 20th-century Israel, when The Wizard of Oz was translated to Hebrew, the translators chose to use Land of Uz for the book's Land of Oz. Thus, to modern Hebrew readers, "Land of Uz" assumed a new layer of meanings unrelated to its Biblical ones.

funny what translations can do.

As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz
That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greec

Also a good Annotated free edition.

http://www.elizabethandrama.org/wp-co...

That quote reminds me of a demonstration I took part in and some people started chanting POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

A lad next to me said to his friend, But I don't want power to the people - That's too much power!

For Cozy_Pug in London


For Chad in Venice

I’m reading The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. As it’s original name in French is Notre-Dame de Paris I hope this qualifies!

Of course it counts Janelle - Notre-Dame is a place!

I’m going to Paris first, then popping back home to London by reading Down and Out in Paris and London. I would prefer some luxury, but it’s an opportunity to read this book that’s been on my list for a while. I’ll have to aim for first class travel on my next trip!

Oh how I dearly wish I could travel but with the restrictions placed on us in the US the only way I can travel is in my reading which is not a bad thing at all. You’re never too old to learn new things and about new places. I’m really excited to expanding my reading challenge this year. So far I haven’t been able to post but I’m hopeful Goodreads will get this worked out shortly. Best of luck to all of you and looking forward to hearing about the lovely gems you’ve found. Stay safe and well and we’ll all talk soon!!!

Trisha wrote: "I’m going to Paris first, then popping back home to London by reading Down and Out in Paris and London. I would prefer some luxury, but it’s an opportunity to read this book that’s be..."

Trisha! I plan to read this book this year too :)

Doreen books are the only way i can travel at the moment too! Lovely to hear from you and hope you can travel around the world this year!

Well Jazzy it would really be wonderful if I could physically travel as one of the first places I would love to visit would be the UK but I can visit places in my dreams through books.

Doreen have you started reading a book with a place in the title? I'm doing a zoom reading club and started mine today.

And if you do come to Newcastle upon Tyne one day let me know and I'll give you a tour of my city! I'll show you the vampire rabbit.

After the day-long Zoom session, have finished my book. I'll just start another one.

Place - Norway
Sidsel Longskirt: A Girl of Norway (1903) - Hans Aanrud

Jazzy I’m actually reading a book called Ruby Ridge. It’s about a stand-off between people affiliated with neo-Nazis and the federal government in northern Idaho in the US that doesn’t end well.

I remember that. The man ended up acquitted of all charges. 😔

I finished reading Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. I thought it get boring as it was very repetitive.

Well fantastic anyway Trisha. Be sure to add it on the front page challenge! Congratulations for finishing your January Challenge!
If you fancy reading another one, please do so 😎

I happen to be reading Solaris by Stanisław Lem with the Never Too Late to read Classics group. So I was participating in this challenge before I saw this thread. :) Very creepy and unusual book so far. I can see why a film of it would attract a 'cult following' though I haven't seen the movie myself. Yet.

So I started Journey to Paradise: Short Stories and Autobiographical Sketches by Dorothy M. Richardson. Paradise is a place isn't it? Some of you may know about Surfers Paradise here on the Gold Coast where meter maids used to pop sixpences in the meter when it was close to running out. Hopefully this picture works. HTML is not my forte. [image error]

Oh dear Jazzy I'm going to have to ask how to add images - I feel like I am possibly the most needy member of this group so far. Sorry everyone. (PS I also apologize a lot). Eek! PPS Yes I did google it but obviously cannot follow destructions.

I love helping people so it's no bother at all.

First it depends what images you need to add.

If you're adding an image from the internet, you go to the image and if you can you right click and COPY IMAGE ADDRESS - I'm on a mac, so it will be something similar if you're not, next (since it is already copied you type all this with no spaces except between img & src - img src (which stands for image source)

< img src = " (paste your copied image address here) " >

so the only space you will have in the above text is between the two words img src

HOWEVER it will not always work. it might end in .jpg with a lot of text after it, you might be able to delete that text after .jpg and retry, sometimes it won't work at all. Try another image.

my image address is https://i.etsystatic.com/5871846/r/il...

John I read Solaris last year and really enjoyed it.

Cphe, I haven't read that so I'll add it to my list.

I play a game on an app called Wordscapes by people fun and I'm in the team surfrats. (with the full-stop) and we have some people from Australia there. Very nice and friendly team.

Thanks Jazzy - I must be supremely dumb. I used to be able to do this sort of thing but this one has me stumped. So if you want to see an image of a meter maid go here https://flic.kr/p/2fgjS4Y

Ah you're a very clever girl! It's because it's a flickr image, but I did see some other photos of those meter maids! I wonder if this is the inspiration for Lovely Rita, Meter Maid

I found this article too
http://www.goldcoaststories.com.au/me...

When I was in St. Petersburg Florida they had the Hot Dog Girls



https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

https://uncletnuc.com/2021/07/01/the-...

I'm going to reread Solaris and read The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor for the first time.
I've never been to Cape Cod, which I've heard is beautiful. I wouldn't mind going there in person some day.
But I don't think I would enjoy travelling to Solaris.

Oh no, i don't want to go to Solaris either hahah

Don't forget to write!

Great photos of the meter maids Jazzy. Great article too. Thanks for all your efforts in this regard :)

I have a problem with wanting to learn everything - even at 4 in the morning when I have to get up in a few hours! haha thanks Alex!

Doreen wrote: "Oh how I dearly wish I could travel but with the restrictions placed on us in the US the only way I can travel is in my reading which is not a bad thing at all. You’re never too old to learn new th..."

I wonder if you try to celebrate your books by creating rituals around the books you are reading? For instance when I read The House of Mirth I developed a Earl Grey Tea habit which I haven't been able to break. One time I picked up a portable record player to fulfill my Out of Africa fantasy of being in the middle of no where playing records. (I can't believe that I gave it away to a friend, but friends are priceless too.)

Cosmic, get another record player!
I got a cool colourful plastic one that can run on batteries - but when I got it home i found out it only plays 7" records. I didn't have any so I ordered two from ebay - Michel Polnareff and Jack Wild.

Just read Full Tilt Ireland to India with a bicycle. By Dervla Murphy.

Who can read or watch Morse without wanting a whiskey?

Pat wrote: "Just read Full Tilt Ireland to India with a bicycle. By Dervla Murphy."

ooh you finished your challenge!


"Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" - Engelbert Humperdinck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF45x...

Pat wrote: "Who can read or watch Morse without wanting a whiskey?"

Pass us a glass of Glenfiddich, please!

Glenfiddich was the favourite whisky of fictional detective Inspector Morse, as well as his creator Colin Dexter. - Well there's a surprise!



I went to a dance a few years back (I belong to a swing dance society), and one of the lads surreptitiously slipped me his flask of whiskey and I took a nip then smiled and he looked happy and proud and said - It's Glenfiddich!

Completed my January places challenge (message 4 above). I came across the book when I read The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders last year. The title got me - Life in London: Or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis. It sounded like it would be along the lines of a P.G. Wodehouse book, where Bertie Wooster and his friends get up to all kinds of trouble.

Life in London wasn't awful, but the title of the book was better than the book itself lol. I give it 3 stars. I still laugh though thinking of elegant Corinthian Tom 😂

Thanks for the wonderful London photos, Jazzy!

Oh Cozy_Pug I'm so happy you did enjoy it enough to get a giggle out of it later! And I do have to admit that it does sound intriguing.
As for the photos, well it's my pleasure, treasure! x

Jazzy, thank you for the link to that song-it's always been a favourite with me.

I've been listening to a lot of easy listening lately and it came up :)

I'm glad you like it x

I am also reading East of Eden. Would this also count for this challenge?

Sure, you're in a place 'east of Eden' right?

Definitely!!