A book that evokes the spirit of a special place in its uniqueness. Here is a definition by Dr Thomas A Woods. http://www.importanceofplace.com/2009...
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message 1: by Rebekah (new)

Rebekah Because I was limited to only 100, I didn’t put more than one book per author, unless it was a collection. But most of these authors have a special gift for calling up a setting so that you can easily picture, if not feel it. John Steinbeck, Pearl S Buck, Rudyard Kipling, LM Montgomery, Gene Stratton-Porter, Bessie Head, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Larry McMurtry, Zane Grey, Sandra Dallas, Barbara Kingsolver, James Michener, Amitav Ghosh, John Irving, Zara Neale Hurston, Conrad Ritchie, Jack London, Sharyn McCrumb, Lee Smith, Susan Gregg Gilmore, Louise Erdrich, Willa Cather, Amy Tan, Bill Bryson, Carl Hiassen, Amy Green, Silas House, Peter Carey, Rebecca Wells, William Dalrymple, Charles Frazier, Mark Twain, Justine Hardy, and Mitchell Zuckoff all have other books I’ve read that create that same magic. Any books I voted on that are part of series, I consider all the books in the series to have that same quality


message 2: by Rebekah (new)

Rebekah Other authors I would have added if I had room would be Nancy Peacock, Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni, John Hersey, Tove Jansson, Lorna Landvik, Walker Percy, Wendell Berry, Ron Rash, John Berendt, R K Narayan, Tarquin Hall, Margaret Atwood, John Fox Jr, James Allen, Alice Walker, Mary Ann Shaffer, Barbara Cleverly (her mysteries based during the British Raj in India), Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Lisa See, Rohinton Mistry, Paulo Coelho, Edward Rutherfurd, Isabel Allende, JoAnn Harris, James Herriot, Vikram Seth, the classic authors Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Bronte Sisters, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Walter Scott, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf , Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings and George Eliot. I’m sure all be thinking of more all night!


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Rainbowheart Does it have to be a real place, or are fictional ones allowed?


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