March Chats (2021)

"You talk. I'll just lay here and listen."

Every time you post what you have read and I can find where the story takes place, it is added to the travel site in Mystery & Suspense. Since this site is an extension of the Mystery & Suspense site, I count your places visited. If you are a Member of the Mystery and Suspense site also, your state or country is counted there and not twice.

As of February 28th we have visited 75 states and 45 other countries this month. This gives us a grand total of 267 places visited. Let's see where March will take us. Bon Voyage!

New York was the most state visited with 15 visits, with California in second place with 13 visits. England was the most visited "other country" with 24 visits and Scotland was in second place with 2 visits.

Keep up the good work.

Hi, Carol. I'm glad to have discovered this group to which you have already kindly welcomed me.

I track where every book I read is located. In my log, I list the nationality, and if it is set in America, the state where it is set. Up to the beginning of March, I have visited Australia, Canada, and in the US: Texas, Washington (twice), Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, and Arizona. I'm pretty proud of those American reads because some of those states are hard to find as settings! I am trying to see how many states I can visit this year.

>3 sturlington: I see by your log post where you have been and I have been able to find the states for all that you have listed as "America". Some states are just not used by authors much unless they live there...like what Stephen King has done for Maine. The larger states like California and New York are used all the time. Anyone that reads much would think that England was the only country in Europe:) I don't know how we started doing this. We did the "where have we been" thread when most of us belonged to Shelfari and carried it with us onto Leaf Marks and now here at LibraryThing. It's fun to see how many places we can visit each month and what new ones we can come up with.

>4 Carol420: I looked at my tags since I started tracking and my most-visited states are, no surprise, California and New York, followed by North Carolina (my home state and a treasure-trove of writers), Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas.

I've lost count of how many books I've read set in England. I've actually gotten a little tired of the setting, but I can't seem to resist a good gothic, and most of them take place there. I do seem to read a fair number of Canadian books. I need to venture out into the world more. Maybe I'll do a region challenge once I've gotten through all my all 50 states challenge.

>5 sturlington: What a great idea! If you work out the regional challenge...please feel free...if you'd like... to set it up so that we all can play.

>6 Carol420: Sure! The Category Challenge group regularly does one. I think they have one going on now, actually, but I'm already doing three challenges over there LOL. If you like challenges, you should check it out--anyone is welcome. We also make up a bingo card every year to play, and that's a lot of fun.

https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/23008/2021-Category-Challenge

>7 sturlington: Thank you. I'll visit the site.

Hi Carol! I visited several places in March:

Early Ireland, mostly Connacht but also the northern part (the Maeve of Connact series by Esther Friesner;
England, Iron Curtain era Czechoslovakia, and post-war Switzerland (via A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
Modern day Chicago via Jim Butcher and Grave Peril

Hope this helps expand the reading places for ya!