[Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit]

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup hosted by The Broke And The Bookish!

This post couldn't come at a better time. As you've all noticed, things have been pretty quite on the blog lately. That's because I've been out of the country for awhile! I've been back for a little over a week, but it's taken me awhile to get back into the flow of things. Where was I you ask? Amsterdam! Oddly enough, a pretty famous book or two had an influence on wanting to go and so I'm excited to dig into this post!

I remember reading this book and laughing my head off. Instantly I knew that I needed to get on plane and fly over to England. It's become one of my very favorite places on the planet and I've been twice and plan on many more trips back in the future!

I actually read this book on the way to Paris last year and it couldn't have been a better pick. It was crazy to see the things that she talks about in the book as I roamed the city! Plus, this book also had to do with my want to travel to Amsterdam!

If you guessed that The Fault in Our Stars had something to do with my most recent trip, you'd be correct. I had to see The Anne Frank House for myself and I have to admit that it was intense, but it's something that I'm so glad I did.

I actually read this one after I made my way to Cinque Terre, but this book made me want to head back for longer than 2 days. These villages in Italy were amazing!

This book and I are connected at soul level and it made me want to jump on a plane so I could get lost in an Australian record store. It hasn't happened yet, but I see it happening at some point in my life.

Can you say Greece, cause I can say Greece and this book makes me want to go there. Real bad. It helps that I have Greek heritage, so I should make that happen soon...

This book makes me want to hop in car full of boys and go to Dollywood really bad. Like, it's a secret dream of mine that people will now know. And I'm not ashamed to admit it!

Canada, one day I will be in you and it will be amazing. I'm not putting on a pair of skates though, cause nothing about that sounds fun and, God knows, it wouldn't look pretty!

This book makes Pompeii sound amazing. Unlike the movie named after the place, that was terrifyingly bad. But this book makes me a fan and my morbid curiosity might need to find out what it's all about.

When all else fails I just want to visit this version of Wonderland and have a thing with Morpheus. Cause that's never gonna happen, but this world is grand escape from reality...

Well there's my list!  What's on yours?  I wanna know.  Leave your link below or tell me in the comments!

[Top Ten Tuesday: Authors In My Reading Journey]

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup hosted by The Broke And The Bookish!

I know that this isn't what the girls over at The Broke and The Bookish meant when they picked "Authors in My Reading Journey", but it's no secret that I travel a lot.  I decided that I'm going to give you a list of the 10 authors who's books I read for the first time while I was traveling.  I might even tell you where I was when I read them.  So sit back and get ready.

Authors Who's Books I Read While Traveling:

 

 

"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" by Ann Brashares:  I can't remember where I was going when I picked this one up, but I do know that I bought it at the airport and that I fell in love with this series because of that decision!

"Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell:  I started this one on a two week road trip through Oregon and Washington State.  I didn't finish it on the trip, but it became a favorite of mine.

"Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging" by Louise Rennison:  I read this one when I was 20 and on my first plane to London!  It felt appropriate and made me laugh.

"If I Stay" by Gayle Forman:  I cried my eyes out on planes and trains as I covered the first part of my 7 weeks of European adventures two years ago.  I loved it!.  I also read "Where She Went."  Gayle is now one of my favorite contemporary authors.

"Princess of the Midnight Ball" by Jessica Day George:  After I was done with Forman's books I needed more and so I turned to my Amazon app on my phone and read this one in two days in a little house in Belfast.

"The Nine Lives of Chloe King" by Liz Braswell:  I finished this one while I was still on the Europe trip.  I'm not sure where I was, but I do remember not loving this one.  You can't win them all.

"Vixen" by Jillian Larkin:  I snagged this one for the plane ride home and almost finished it by the time the flight ended.  I have both of her other books, cause I liked this one so much, but I haven't read them yet.

"Cinder" by Marissa Meyer:  I started this one on a road trip to LA.  Of course, I fell in love with the book and the series!

"Just One Day" by Gayle Forman:  Yes, Forman is on this list again!  I read this one while I was in Paris last year.  It was cool to read about the place I was in, while being there.

"Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein:  I finished this one in a beach house the day before one of my childhood best friend's weddings.  I don't know if that was the greatest idea, since it made me bawl my eyes out with the most epic/tragic friendship ever!

Well there's my list!  What's on yours?  I wanna know.  Leave your link below or tell me in the comments!