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April 2021 Hour 2 - What book would you want to live in?
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Apr 24, 2021 06:01AM
As an avid fantasy and sci-fi reader I dive into all sorts of worlds. Of all the new worlds you've found in books what one would you want to live in?
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I have to be unoriginal with this answer and choose Hogwarts! I know it's not a fantasy world but I still think it can count haha! How amazing would it be to be able to stay at Hogwarts and learn magic?!
I know it’s cliché, but Harry Potter. I just love magic and Hogwarts and school but in a beautiful moving castle!! Heck yeah
Lilly wrote: "I know it’s cliché, but Harry Potter. I just love magic and Hogwarts and school but in a beautiful moving castle!! Heck yeah"haha! I did the same!
I would like to live in a book where there is true equality for people with disabilities and I want to see more books about or by people with disabilities. Fantasies, scifi, romance women's fiction to name a few genres.
I'll go with Hogwarts too --- as long as I'm not a muggle in that world. Wouldn't be fun otherwise, right?
Six Of Crows by a long shot! I absolutely adore this world, and I cannot wait to watch the show
Lilly wrote: "I know it’s cliché, but Harry Potter. I just love magic and Hogwarts and school but in a beautiful moving castle!! Heck yeah"And the delicious butterbeer!
I would love to live in the Golden Age of Narnia. There are mermaids and satyrs and dryads and nymphs. And renaissance style dresses and castles. It sounds amazing.A while ago I would have said Hogwarts, but I've been rereading and annotating the hp series and realizing just how toxic some things in hp are, specifically with Hogwarts and the wizarding world. I still love it, but it's definitely changed my answer to the "which world" question.
Katherine wrote: "I would like to live in a book where there is true equality for people with disabilities and I want to see more books about or by people with disabilities. Fantasies, scifi, romance women's fiction..."Yes! This.
Katherine wrote: "I would like to live in a book where there is true equality for people with disabilities and I want to see more books about or by people with disabilities. Fantasies, scifi, romance women's fiction..."I agree! There's not a lot of accurate representation. I've found it hard to find own voices books in fiction.
Katherine wrote: "I would like to live in a book where there is true equality for people with disabilities and I want to see more books about or by people with disabilities. Fantasies, scifi, romance women's fiction..."That's such a wonderful idea! If there is a fictional world like this I'd love to read about it.
Bronagh wrote: "Six Of Crows by a long shot! I absolutely adore this world, and I cannot wait to watch the show"Six of Crows is on my TBR. I'll have to snag a copy before I start the show.
Beth wrote: "I would love to live in the Golden Age of Narnia. There are mermaids and satyrs and dryads and nymphs. And renaissance style dresses and castles. It sounds amazing. I haven't read through those in a long time. I think it would a wonderful world (and time) to live in. The talking animals and mysterious magics were and are my favorites.
There are so many fantasy worlds I’d like to visit! To actually live there though, I think I have to go with the ones I’ve loved the longest and know I wouldn’t get tired of— Narnia or Middle Earth.
Raquel wrote: "There are so many fantasy worlds I’d like to visit! To actually live there though, I think I have to go with the ones I’ve loved the longest and know I wouldn’t get tired of— Narnia or Middle Earth."Middle Earth is the first fantasy world I can remember loving. My dad read me the Hobbit when I was a kid. I think of all the places in Middle Earth the Shire would be my pick to live in. How about you?
Most of the scifi I read is dystopian stuff, and I wouldn't want to live there! Harry Potter's world might be fun, but I think I'd be afraid of magic. Ha ha.
Ann A wrote: "Most of the scifi I read is dystopian stuff, and I wouldn't want to live there! Harry Potter's world might be fun, but I think I'd be afraid of magic. Ha ha."That makes sense! There's a few worlds I'd like to live in from scifi. Living at Oomza University from Binti: The Complete Trilogy would be incredible. People from all over the universe and different planets to interact with every day would be neat.
I’m not much of a fantasy reader so I don’t have a vastly different world that I’d love to visit. However, I think if I had to live in the world of a recent read I’d choose, Where the Crawdad’s Sing. I didn’t particularly love this book but I did feel a sort of nostalgia and longing for a life spent observing and existing with nature. I vacationed in Everglades City several years ago and can still vividly remember the joy of drinking my coffee on the porch and watching to osprey and pelicans hunt. The main character seemed to wake up to this same joy every day never tiring of it simply because it was her every day experience. That’s the sort of world I’d like to live in.
Erin wrote: "I’m not much of a fantasy reader so I don’t have a vastly different world that I’d love to visit. However, I think if I had to live in the world of a recent read I’d choose, Where the Crawdad’s Sin..."The thought 'I live in a beautiful place' is an incredible way to start everyday. That feeling comes through Brian Doyle's writing for me.
This is a cliche, but Hogwarts! I think it would be really cool to learn magic alongside many other students :)
At the moment: Ketterdam. I don't even know how to explain why, it just sounds interesting
Go into a wardrobe and end up in Narnia !!
Annie wrote: "In the world of Jane Austen!"I think I have to agree with you. While some fantasy worlds are beautiful they're also full of danger. Nothing particularly bad happens in Jane Austen's world however, and the heroines always have happy endings!
Hogwarts, even though I'm too old for it.
Narnia! Magical creatures, talking animals, castles...
I would like to wander around in Ankh-Morpork for a short-stay. :-)
Eswee42 wrote: "I would like to wander around in Ankh-Morpork for a short-stay. :-)"Ankh-Morpork is one I forgot about!
@Stephanie -same. I would love to live in the world of Hay Harry Potter
ok so I wanna live in Beast and Bells castle... so I can have her book and mirror and be able to go anywhere... into any story
Possibly Anarres from Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Life would be hard there, but I like the idea of the work that I'd do being truly meaningful.
Anything set in Iceland or Norway! Troll neighbors a bonus!
A wrote: "Raquel wrote: "There are so many fantasy worlds I’d like to visit! To actually live there though, I think I have to go with the ones I’ve loved the longest and know I wouldn’t get tired of— Narnia ..."Ooh, that's a good question! Part of the appeal of living in Middle Earth is still being able to travel to different areas and countries and have different experiences... I would definitely want to vacation in the Shire sometimes, and visit Lothlorien. Oddly though, Rohan feels like a good place to call home in Middle Earth.
Erin wrote: "I’m not much of a fantasy reader so I don’t have a vastly different world that I’d love to visit. However, I think if I had to live in the world of a recent read I’d choose, Where the Crawdad’s Sing...never tiring of it simply because it was her every day experience. That’s the sort of world I’d like to live in...
This is a lovely thought!
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