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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176837.Imagined_London_A_Tour_of_the_World_s_Greatest_Fictional_City?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City (National Geographic Directions)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172444593m/176837.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176837.Imagined_London_A_Tour_of_the_World_s_Greatest_Fictional_City?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3500.Anna_Quindlen">Anna Quindlen</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6018254?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Getting ready for my trip in a couple of weeks to London, I put a couple of guidebooks on hold from the library. The most pleasant surprise was this slim book by Anna Quindlen. She perfectly captures the allure of a city that you have read about in countless books; how it feels familiar and still new. A gorgeous writer, this book manages to be bother personal and yet sort of elusively informative. London was a city that never disappointed the author, and as she talks about some of the literary landmarks that shaped her knowledge of the city, it got me very excited for my own trip. Although I may not visit 221B Baker Street on this visit (a terrible tourist trap, apparently), I will definitely be brushing up on my Dickens and Waugh before leave. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/34677?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>