It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading to participate.

I am King Charlemagne's arrogant nephew. I'm boastful and proud. These qualities have led me into a bloody battle in Gascony, France, destroying a large part of the King's army. Death seems eminent.

The Song of Roland by anonymous

Wow! This regain is steeped in history.

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading to participate.

I am a girl convicted of murder in Kingston in Canada. A doctor of a new branch of medicine, psychology, is trying to figure out my guilt or innocence.

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading to participate.

I am a father, from Washington DC, distraught at the news of what my young daughter did at a party. My actions have farther reaching consequences than hers.

Breaking Her Fall by Stephen Goodwin

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading for more details.

I have just run away from my problems to Metamorphosis, Greece. There is an archaeological dig near by that I am trying to get on to take my mind off my failed marriage.

The Hidden by Tobias Hill

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading for more details.

This week I'm camped in Harveyville, Kansas, spending my time with a group of women supporting each other through the Depression. We are a quilting group known as:

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

This paisley design is known as the Persian Pickle.

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading for more details.

I have just boarded a train in London to take me to the most renowned school to learn magic. Hogwarts is the school and Harry Potter is my name.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading for more details.

I knew I wasn't in the US when January was described as hot and sweltering. Mawson, Australia may be where the protagonist lives but he has spent all his life romanticizing Staplefield, West Sussex in Endland, the home of his overprotective and secretive mother. But I have a feeling there is something strange about about to happen in Staplefield.

The Ghost Writer by John Harwood

Graveyard in Staplefield, West Sussex. Apropos for a ghost story.

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading for more details.

I am in Northern California, along the coast. There is a home that has been mistakenly taken away from a depressed and deserted woman and auctioned to an Eastern Indian immigrant trying to regain his self worth. It doesn't end well(from what I've heard).

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

San Mateo County, California

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Has a book ever transported you to a new land or experience? Share where your reading has taken you this week. Visit An Adventure in Reading for more details.

I am on an idyllic island in the southeast of Canada, Prince Edward Island, or PEI to fans. Though it is best known for a spunky inhabitant by the name of Anne Shirley, I am visiting with some lesser known characters. Only L.M. Montgomery can people her island with so much flair.

Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement by L.M. Montgomery

Prince Edward Island. Makes you want to visit doesn't it?

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

I have settled in Chicago where I work at the Newberry Library but I make occasional trips to New Haven, Michigan to meet my future bride. I have more trouble answering the question of when am I since I jump from past to future to present without warning.

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Newberry Park and Library

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

This week I am in the bizarre 5th Avenue home of a couple of brothers, one blind and one genius/eccentric. We are moving from about the 1920s to close to modern day. There are wars, gangsters, hippies and more newspapers than can fit into one house.

Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow

5th Avenue in the 1930.

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

It's Tuesday...Where are you?


Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

This week I am enjoying a view of life in the nunnery in Ferrara, Italy in 1570 where daughters were sold, often against there wills, to convents because the expenses of a wedding dowry were too high. The politics inside the confining walls are as fascinating as the characters who live within.

Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

I am in the small village of Ballyroan, Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. I am the younger daughter of some of the remaining villagers after a mass exodus from Ireland, just before the country was rigged with electricity. There is a group of gypsies that my sister and I keep running into.

The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane

There are no good photos of Ballyroan, Ireland so I got this one of its neighbor, Galway.

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

I'm back in Alabama in the 1930s. This week I'm a young girl from a mining community who witnesses a lady drop a baby in a well. I will spend the rest of the book dealing with the impact of this event.

The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips

It'sTuesday...Where are you?

Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

I'll be spending some time in Venice, Italy today as I follow Antonia, a merchant of Venice, in about the 1500s. The language is a challenge that is well worth the time taken to understand it.

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano: a stage, where every man must play a part, and mine a sad one."

The Merchant of Venice, a play by William Shakespeare

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

Today I am in Alabama, USA. It's in about the 1930s in a little town called Whistle Stop with a charming cafe run by some eccentric characters. They serve traditional foods from the south, including fried green tomatoes.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

It's Tuesday...Where are you?

I'm starting a new meme. Every Tuesday I'll post about where my reading is taking me. You can join the fun too. Visit An Adventure in Reading to find out more.

Today I am in Virginia, USA. It's the 1950s and life in a seemingly happy home is not what it appears. Dark secrets are held here that will affect its 5 year old occupant for the rest of his life; secrets that will cause him to write this memoir and then to write the wonderful novel, A Reliable Wife.

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick