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JacintaMCarter
In Cold Blood | Truman Capote
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It's impossible for me to find a book that fits the #SetInYourCity tag, so I'll change it to #SetInYourState. This is probably the most famous book about Kansas. #ReadJanuary

britt_brooke And what a book! Read it last year. Crazy, but so good. 8y
Suzze Read this when it first came out. And I loved it! 8y
Mcoun Masterpiece! 8y
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Bette
Ordinary Grace: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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#setinyourcity/country Sorry! A day late. Wm Kent Krueger based his book on several small MN towns, Including New Ulm. It's a stand alone mystery which doesn't involve his Cork O'Connor character. A coming-of-age story of a 13 year old boy in the early '60s, it won the Edgar Award for best Novel in 2013 and has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird. And it is a wonderful read. 😊 The painting is of an old local bridge done by my mother in law.

librariankris @Bette That's the bridge in the book!! 8y
Posemn Minnesota! Love the pic by your mother-in-law! 8y
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Bette @posemn Yep! Thanks! 8y
heidisreads @Bette is the bridge still there? @librariankris 8y
Bette @heidifk Yeah, the bridge is still here. It's out by the quarry. I think they cemented around the bottom so it doesn't look as quaint anymore. 8y
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Marchpane
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Brisbane. 1990s. Young male student (slash unemployed dropout) moves in to decrepit share house - a tin-roofed Queenslander - with colourful assortment of quirky (slash damaged) housemates. Shenanigans (slash crises) ensue. House parties. Sex, drugs and binge drinking.

#setinyourcity #readjanuary

Marchpane Book must subsequently be adapted as a stage play, followed by an independent film. 8y
Abcdefghijklmnop That book is hilarious!! 8y
Marchpane @jess19 The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco is the sequel to Felafel. I read both so many years ago but vaguely remember them both being really funny. 8y
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saguarosally
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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#setinyourcity #readjanuary It's set in Cochise County, AZ in the early 1990s. I lived in that general area at the time. The descriptions of the terrain and the technology of those times is very familiar. @RealLifeReading

Tcip Everything is set in Cochise county because if it's a book about Arizona then it's a western or a Native American book mystery. It drives me batty. I just read an article in the New Times about how there is not a great Arizonan novel 8y
saguarosally @Tcip On the other hand, it makes it feel like home. There is more to Arizona but there are strong western and Native American roots. 8y
Tcip @saguarosally I feel what you are saying but I just wish there was a good solid novel by the way of someone like Junot Diaz or like a Hemingway. I guess if you are not from Flagstaff or Tucson you don't see a lot of the native or western roots. I spent nearly my whole life in the Phoenix area so it's hard to get into that spirit. 8y
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saguarosally @Tcip It would be interested to see more mainline classics (if that's the right phrase?) set in Arizona. I know it's different in the Phoenix area as I've lived here quite some time, but then again I sometimes just seek out the western spirit. 8y
Tcip @saguarosally hey man! Nothing wrong with that! 8y
RebL Waiting to Exhale is set in PHX. Have you read it? 8y
saguarosally @RebL Nope, got it on the TBR now! 8y
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AGirlAndHerBooks
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Cincinnati. Great Depression. Cute kid. What's not to like?! 😜🤗#day13 #setinyourcity #readjanuary

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Lmstraubie
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Doesn't take place in my city, but in my state. It is based on true events that took place in Elizabeth, NJ when #judyblume was young. #readjanuary #setinyourcity @RealLifeReading

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BraveNewBooks
French Kiss: BookShots | James Patterson
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It's fortunate I'm still in Paris 🗼🗼 for this one, since there seem to be fewer books set in San Juan... 🏝🏝

#SetinYourCity #readjanuary @RealLifeReading

BraveNewBooks Wow, this book was just terrible. 8y
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BookFreakOut
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Was born and went to college here! I was so excited to see specific references in the story to the aircraft industry part of town and the nationally recognized zoo, specifically the jungle building pictured here. If you ever make one of those "books from every state" lists, put this in instead of Wizard of Oz and all of Kansas will thank you.
#setinyourcity #readjanuary

Hollie I'm from KS, too! I have not yet read this book, though! 8y
BookFreakOut @Hollie Kansas pals! 🙌 They're pretty good, not my super faves but I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading them. 8y
[DELETED] 4184155464 I'm the sole person in/from Kansas who would encourage the person to read "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Because I am THAT fan girl. ? But I understand the sentiment most Kansans feel. 8y
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rach_simone
The Devil in Silver | Victor LaValle
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#ReadJanuary There are so many books set in NYC. This one is set in Queens, which is my borough! #SetInYourCity #TBR #ReadHarder

vivastory Haven't read this one, but loved his book "The Ecstatic" 8y
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Theresa
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My entry for #setinyourcity. These selections represent my home town (Whitehall, PA, which is in the Lehigh Valley), my current city (Atlanta, GA) and some of the places I've lived in between (Des Moines, IA, Cincinnati, OH, and Chicago, IL). Of these, Devil in the White City is the only one I've read.

Well-ReadNeck @Theresa I'm pretty sure you are living in Atlanta illegally, if you haven't read GWTW 😜 8y
Theresa @Well-ReadNeck I've seen the movie - at the Fox no less. And I've bee to the GWTW museum in Marietta. Do those things mitigate the problem?? 😂😂😂 8y
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