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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

#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.

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.

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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

Cincinnati. Great Depression. Cute kid. What's not to like?! 😜🤗#day13 #setinyourcity #readjanuary

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

It's fortunate I'm still in Paris 🗼🗼 for this one, since there seem to be fewer books set in San Juan... 🏝🏝

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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.
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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

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.