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Apr 20, 2018 02:45AM
I just finished The Map Thief and found it riveting. I love both non fiction and maps so this was right up my alley.
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I have been reading Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations since January. It is taking a long time to finish. I can read about 2 or 3 stories a day, then set it aside. It has hundreds of maps in it, and I am really enjoying it. Some are places I would love to visit; many are places I will stay away from.
What are you reading for this category?Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay
The map was of the station where the murder took place, and was helpful in showing the layout so it was easy to understand how it had been committed.
I'm going to stretch this prompt a little bit with City of Dragons. I was sure it had a map because all of Robin Hobb's books I've read had map and maps do exist online. My copy doesn't have one and I couldn't find online if other publications did, but I'm going with it anyway ;)
- What are you reading for this category? Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George- Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience? Not really, I only glanced at it every so often but it didn't really add anything or clarify anything further.
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I'm also not great at reading descriptions.. my eyes tend to start skimming when there's a whole lot of "to the left of the door there is this and to the right of the window there is that", so the map of the Ice Court really helped me imagine how they were moving throughout the last half of the book.
Do any of the books in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha trilogy have a map? I'm trying to find a place to squeeze those in.
- What are you reading for this category? A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas- Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience? I honestly don't look at the maps that often. Usually just to see where places are in relation to each other.
What are you reading for this category? At Home in Mitford Jan Karon
Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
Yes, it already has given me an idea of where buildings and people's houses are in Mitford.
What are you reading for this category? I realized that many fantasy novels include maps of the imaginary locations. So I decided to finally join the legions of readers who have read A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience? Probably. I like to refer to maps when reading books like this especially when territories and battles are involved.
I’m reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The book has numerous drawings, diagrams and a few maps. I don’t think the maps are helpful (as far as maps go) but are in the book to demonstrate the main character’s thinking process.
Question: I'm doing the audiobook of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, but can also download the physical book. Is it important to follow the map while you read the book?
Rachel wrote: "Do any of the books in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha trilogy have a map? I'm trying to find a place to squeeze those in."Rachel, all three of the books in the trilogy have maps!
For anyone who doesn't want to read fantasy for this prompt since fantasy books tend to have maps more, here are some contemporary suggestions:The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock. (read this myself for this prompt and it was precious!)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart.
Hafsa wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Do any of the books in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha trilogy have a map? I'm trying to find a place to squeeze those in."Rachel, all three of the books in the trilogy have maps!"
Excellent! Now to rearrange my plans a bit, lol.
- What are you reading for this category? American War- Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
Not really
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What are you reading for this category?This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell.
There is a pretty map under the dust jacket of the hardcover edition on the actual cover of the book.
Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading?
Yes, I hope so. I like maps and often look up places mentioned in books if there isn’t one anyways.
I'm reading A Wizard of Earthsea for this one. Being a fantasy book, I don't think the map will have a huge impact on the reading experience.
I'm reading A Storm of Swords, a game of thrones novel.
I read The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes. Usually I look at the maps in fantasy books a lot, but this one I didn't, I just looked at the beginning. It didn't really matter to the story.
I am finally going to read Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality by Helen Scales. The map just shows where seahorses live. It does not add to the narrative, but it adds to the list of places I want to travel to.
I read In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple. In 1986 he followed the route of Marco Polo from Jerusalem to Xanadu, north of Beijing. The maps were useful and brought back memories as I have been to some of the places and followed some of the routes.
I did a little twist on this prompt and read a book in which a map is central to the plot (instead of a book with a picture of a map). 
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
I LOVED it and devoured it in one day. It's taken the place as my #1 book of the year (so far). Highly recommend!
I didn't read it for this category, I read it for "a book that takes place in, on, or under water", but The Girl from Everywhere was a book centered about using maps for time travel. It was a pretty fun read and is a kindle unlimited book if anyone has that and is still looking for something to fulfill this category.
What are you reading for this category? Ruin and Rising
Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
I'd say minimally at this point, since I just finished reading the first two books in the series and they all have the same map. It was helpful at times, but I generally tend to look at maps at the beginning and then not very much while actually reading.
Sophie wrote: "I'm going to stretch this prompt a little bit with City of Dragons. I was sure it had a map because all of Robin Hobb's books I've read had map and maps do exist online. My copy doe..."Oh yeah odd, I just checked my (kindle) copy of this book to see if it had a map and nope. I was planning on reading a Robin Hobb book for this category too but it got bumped as I found a map in a sequel that I was reading anyway.
- What are you reading for this category?
Days of Blood & Starlight
- Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
Nope not really. So far I can't make much sense of the map but I keep going back just in case :)
I am reading the third book in the Red Queen series, King's Cage.The map helps keep me aligned with where everything is taking place throughout the territories.
#24 - A book with a mapWhat are you reading for this category?
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
For books I’m loving, yes, wholeheartedly. I typically glance at the map before starting the book and if I'm fully immersed, will occasionally flip back and forth between the story and the map.
For as well-loved as this book seems to be, sadly it was not one that I enjoyed so I did not refer to the map while reading at all. I looked at it before starting the book but never again.
i've just finished reading Death in the Cotswolds by Rebecca Tope. I love her books, light reading with a good murder usually.
- What are you reading for this category? I read Siege and Storm - Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience? Hmmm, the map is very simple, although it shows which country are next to what other country, so maybe a little.
Ok so once again , I did not read Eragon. I swear its been on my challenge list every year and I always change it. I struggled hard with this one, but finally settled on American War, which is sitting on my table waiting to be read.I guess the map will help as a reference to the areas affected in the story.
For our picture book we read Henry's Map. This was a , well I'm just gonna say we didn't care. The map was the whole story because he drew it throughout. Then at the end none of the animals on the farm could figure out why it didn't look right because they were drawn into the map but they went on the hill to look down and see if the map was accurate but it wasn't because they were all missing. The girls thought they weren't very smart. The girls were right lol
Hahaha Eragon lingered on my TBR list for years until finally I admitted I didn't really want to read it, and took it off my list. So freeing!
Nadine wrote: "Hahaha Eragon lingered on my TBR list for years until finally I admitted I didn't really want to read it, and took it off my list. So freeing!"Something better always comes along. I do want to read it eventually its just obviously not a priority lately ( in the last 3 years)
I read Jim Hawkins And The Curse Of Treasure Island - a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island by the Irish author Frank Delaney (writing under the nom-de-plume Francis Bryan) and it has a map of the island, I did check it once or twice when I was confused about who was where!
What are you reading for this category? The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
It did, actually. The map showed the two different kingdoms and the land/forest that separated the two, adding to the feeling of desperation of the characters attempting to pass through that separation.
- What are you reading for this category?The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
- Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
The map in this book is actually the inner cover of the book, and it was incredibly helpful when I was trying to figure out where and what people were doing.
I interpreted this task literally and completed Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps: Mapping The Modern World by Martin Vargic :) . It is quite quirky and lends itself to interesting comparisons, but at times it provides a little too much information.
For anyone who hasn't finished this prompt yet, I just came across The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands. It seems hard to find, but I'm going to keep on the lookout.
Shelley and fellow readers: I just came across The Writer’s Map 🗺, too. Here’s an article related to the book: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
- What are you reading for this category? A Wizard of Earthsea
- Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
I looked the map over before I began to read, but I didn't think the sense of place was strong enough to make me want to refer to it again. It did not add anything to the experience.
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I had been planning on reading The Smell of Other People's Houses for this prompt but the copy disappeared out of my library's system.
There is like a map of the jump station and a map of the server cluster. I guess that would count. Page 182
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What are you reading for this category?I am Malaga by Malaga Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
Do you think the map will add to the narrative or reading experience?
It will be a useful guide to the see where the book is set.
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