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No problem... I asked members to be as specific as their book afforded. If/when you guys have further information - like districts, neighborhoods, boroughs, and whatever else - I am able to map them more precisely. This is nice because popular cities end up just having a lot of map markers in one place at the center of the location.Like New York City, for example. You've got Manhattan, right? But then you've got Upper Manhattan and Lower Manhattan. And on top of that you've got neighborhoods like Greenwich Village or Tribeca or Chelsea. If your book is set in Greenwich Village and you know that then I can put the point there instead of into a big pile of points in the dead center of New York City. It gives the map variety. :)
As for the Denmark locations you mentioned, I mapped everything she gave me. The Google map is much better at geography than I am so it recognized that many of the locations were in Copenhagen and that Zealand is Sjælland. I wouldn't have known though. :x
The Grapes of WrathThis one is kind of tricky, as the characters are constantly moving, but.
Primary: California, U.S.
Secondary: Oklahoma, U.S.
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsPrimary: Latin Quarter, Paris, France
Secondary: Atlanta, Georgia
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
This is about the food critic for the New York Times, so it might be good to put the marker on the New York Times Building in New York City, New York, or at least in Midtown.
Serving Crazy with CurryLocation: Silicon Valley, CA
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari. Los Angeles, CA
New York, NY
Monroe, NY
Wichita, KS
Buenas Aires
Paris
Tokyo
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The authors held focus groups in each place and discussed differences there, so let's see if this counts.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeMain: Umuofia, Nigeria
Secondary: Mbanta, Nigeria
The villages are fictional, but the setting is in Nigeria.
Welcome to Night ValeMain: Night Vale, imaginary site in a desert of the American Southwest
Secondary: King City, California
Will be adding these all this evening.
This book is already up there, but:The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Main:
Witney, England
Secondary:
Ashbury, England
London, England
You're Never Weird on the InternetPrimary:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Secondary:
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Is this only for books we read for this challenge, or are any books ok?
Thanks :) I didn't want to overwhelm you with all my side reads but thought I'd check :)
No problem, Erica. That's why we had to limit it. This thing is going to be epic full by the time the year is over just with the ATY challenge. :P
Got a little distracted by my reading last night, guys, but I'm adding these right now. Thanks for your patience.
Mmmkay! Added Roshini, Brittany, Jody, Karen E, Katie, Kirsten, Kiki, Katie, Bruce, Marina H, Kathy, Andrea, Nicole, Zaz, Laura, Alisa, Melinda, and my own book.Armada
Primary:Beaverton, Oregon
Secondary: Moon
There's a few other locations in the book but these are the primary two.
Roshini - To answer your question that I missed earlier... you can. You're not required to submit anything you don't want to but don't feel like you cannot submit something because it has a bunch of locations. Or, if you don't want to include them all, include the ones from your favorite stories.
Brittany - That Gillian Flynn and her fictional towns! So those one was a little tougher than Gone Girl. This book is supposedly based on the cult phenomena of the 1980's but most of the info I found about the subject linked to a cult-linked murder in 2012 that happened in Kansas City, MO. That happens to be where the author resides. I knew that Kinnakee, KS was intended to be a small farm town. So I went with Cherokee, KS instead. It's a small farm town eastern side of Kansas south of Kansas City.
Katie - I did just that! Right on the NY Times building! Thanks for being so specific. It really helps. :)
Marina H - CliffNotes says they're in eastern Nigeria so I stuck them thataway.
Nicole - I added you as a second submitter on The Girl on the Train.
Alisa - Your book was also already up there so I added you as a second submitter.
I Was Here by Gayle FormanPrimary location: A small unnamed town between Spokane and Yakima, Washington off I-90 somewhere nearish to Moses Lake. I marked Warden, Washington on my personal Map.
Secondary locations:
Tacoma, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Laughlin, Nevada
Don't know if anyone has already put these books on.A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
primary location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Secondary location; Herat, Afghanistan
Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin
Texan, USA
Summer in Sorrento by Melissa Hill
Sorrento, Italy
Wild, by Cheryl Strayed.She's moving from place to place the whole time. She started her hike by Mojave, CA and ended at Cascade Locks, Oregon.
Ready Player One by Ernest ClinePrimary location: The Oasis (could you add it as a fictional location ?)
Secondary location: Columbus, Ohio
Kirsten, I've got you as the primary submitter on Inside the O'Briens.I'm working on a sewing project just now but I'll add these all in a little bit when I take a longer break. :)
This has probably already been mentioned but:The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison
Australia (having trouble finding the exact city) and New York City
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Norfolk (England) for a chunk of the story
Katie, Mai, MJ, Sophie, Rachel, and Stephanie - you are added!Warden, Washington sounds good to me, Katie.
I added Oklahoma City, OK also, Sophie, since that is where The Stacks are located in Ready Player One.
Rachel, Melbourne is the location. I read it last year. :)
Oh, I forgot. I added mine too.Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Primary: El Paso, TX, USA
The Thrill of FallingIt's a book of short stories so -
Fiordland, New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
London, England
You're Never Weird on the InternetPrimary: Los Angeles, U.S.
Secondary: There are a few, but Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. would probably be the next.
Emm wrote: "I added Oklahoma City, OK also, Sophie, since that is where The Stacks are located in Ready Player One."Right, I forgot about this one! Thanks a lot Emm!
Monique wrote: "The Thrill of FallingIt's a book of short stories so -
Fiordland, New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
London, England"
Sorry, I know it's not the place, but Monique, do you plan on creating a topic to discuss this book? I'm really interested in everything about NZ.
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrimary location: Wonderland
Secondary location: London, United Kingdom
(I don't know if this one has been mapped already. Is there an easy way to see which books are already one the map, or should we just write all our books, and you do the sorting?)
Jubilee's JourneyNorfolk, Virginia - Norfolk Navy Yard
Coal Fork, West Virginia - Pilgrim Faith Church, Poynter Coal Mine
Wyattsville, Virginia
Miami, Florida
The Bridge - China, I believe that the aauthor was referring to the Taiping Bridge at Jushui Pass in Anxian County, Sichuan Province
Little BeePrimary: Kingston Upon Thames, England
Secondary: Ibeno, Nigeria
I think my previous book didn't get added (it's not on the map yet), so here it is again:
The Architect's Apprentice
Istanbul, Turkey
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the LusitaniaPrimary:
A route beginning at "a slip at Pier 54, on the Hudson, off the western end of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan" and ending "11 3/4 miles from Kinsale Head" off the south coast of Ireland.
Secondary:
The route of Unterseeboot-20, "from its harbor at Emden, on the northwest coast of Germany" to the south coast of Ireland.
Queenstown, Ireland
Washington, D.C.
London, England (specifically, Room 40 in the old Admiralty building In Whitehall)
Tertiary:
Boston, Massachusetts (specifically, Lauriat's Books on Washington Street)
Rome, Georgia
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I'm from Denmark, and I can see that some of the locations in Babitix's message 140 isn't cities. For example Nørrebro is a part of Copenhagen. And Zealand is the English word for Sjælland, which is an island. Copenhagen is on Zealand. So you can say that those three locations overlap each other.
I haven't figured out exactly which locations you want to mark on the map, so therefore the question? :-)