Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is Bookish Places I’ve Visited, and was submitted by Susan @Bloggin’ ’bout Books! Share all the cool places you’ve been that are bookish or tied to books! This includes neat libraries, book stores, places featured in books, places inspired by books, author homes/places they’ve stayed, etc. You can also share your bucket list of the bookish places you’d like to visit someday. I’ve decided to share places I’ve been that are tied to books, whether through authors or the actual settings of books I’ve read.
Shakespeare & Company Bookstore in Paris, France
I bought a lovely copy of Shakespeare’s love sonnets.
Hotel Metropole in Bellagio, Italy on the shores of Lake Como
Mark Twain stayed here!
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France
The setting of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The setting of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg.
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy
Lord Byron swam across the Grand Canal!
St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown New York City
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was married here.
John’s of Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village New York City
I’m stretching this because it’s just too cool. Frank Sinatra loved this pizza place!! And he did technically co-author a book on how to sing with a voice teacher of his, so I’m counting it.
Cannery Row in Monterey, California
John Steinbeck made this place famous with his novel, Cannery Row. Side note, I used to live in Monterey!
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway lived here while writing many of his most famous works. Robert Frost, one of my favorite poets, also spent his winters here.
Pisa, Italy
From Dante’s Inferno.
Other cool places I’ve been to that are tied to books/authors: Rome (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Central Park in NYC (Catcher in the Rye, Stuart Little), Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (George Orwell famously claimed this to be “one of the most hideous buildings in the world”), and Annapolis, MD (I used to live here and it’s heavily featured in the Ghosted series by B.K. Borison).
What literary locations or bookish places have you visited?
