Please link your reviews for the Classic From a Place You've Lived here. This is only for the Classics From a Place You've Lived category. This includes any classic set in a city, county, state, or country in which you've lived, or by a local author. Examples for me would include Giant by Edna Ferber (Texas); Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Chicago); and Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Germany).
If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and or/the title of the book in your link, like this: " Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (Cross Creek)."
Just finished Years of Grace set in Chicago. Interesting read more for the history than for the actual characters.
ReplyDeleteSorry Karen I misspelled my first Link, would you delete it. Whatever else this book does it does give you a nice tour around some familiar streets. Thank fully I was able to walk them in a leisurely way and encountered no dead bodies!
ReplyDeleteNo problem! I still haven't read this one but it's on my list!
DeleteI read No Longer Human, by Dazai Osamu - I used to live in Tokyo as a student. I did enjoy it and am glad to have crossed it off my list, but I did think it deserves a new, fresher translation.
ReplyDeleteLinked to my review of 'Colour Scheme' by Ngaio Marsh, set in NZ.
ReplyDeleteFinished A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter. :)
ReplyDeleteMy review of: The Oak Openings set in my hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Really enjoyed this.
ReplyDeleteJust finished Hard Rain Falling by Dan Carpenter, set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, my lifelong home.
ReplyDeleteI read Anatomy of a Murder for this, which takes place in Michigan (born and raised!).
ReplyDeleteJust finished Sun on the Stubble, set in South Australia. I've never lived anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteFinally added Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl) which I read last month. I may not have lived in Amsterdam, but the Netherlands is such a small country! It's gonna be the closest I can get haha!
ReplyDeleteCatherine Middleton. I have read The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland, classic from Australia, where I live.
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