Interesting Times Meme

[lazy_as_a_cat]

I was talking to someone the other day about a book I was reading and we got into a discussion about the setting, and from there, about preferences for setting. It’s interesting, the way that people gravitate towards or romanticize/mythologize certain times/places, sometimes to the point that the setting becomes the genre; Westerns, for example. So

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[alyssachan]

We should totally get one of those bicycles.

I love reading about regency England. I don't want to visit it or anything, but I like to read books with it as a setting.

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I wanna visit the Discworld once, just so I can say "I rode the biggest turtle ever, what have YOU done with your life?"

=)

[lazy_as_a_cat]

I did not know that. Now I have some books I can loan you, and we need to watch the adaptation of Persuasion with Anthony Stewart Head as Sir Walter Elliot, and AND you need to come to JaneAustenCon with me in October.

Yay, me too ^-^ though you’d probably want to invest in some really good luggage for a trip like that.