Every Tuesday over at  The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  This week’s topic is:

Ten Bookish Settings I’d Love to Visit

This week’s topic is bookish settings we’d love to visit.  I’ve given a half and half list with five places I’d love to see and five places I’d sooner not:

1. Middle Earth – as imagined by Tolkien.  Such wonders to see, Rivendell, The Shire and Gondor.  Spectacular things to behold. Definitely visit.
2. Mordor – as also imagined by Tolkien.   ‘It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this… it is folly’.  Avoid.  Just don’t go there.
3. Narnia – CS Lewis and his wonderful The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe – you could pass through the City of War Drobe into the land of Spare Oom and have tea with Mr Tumnus.  Worth a quick stop.
4. Jadis Castle – also by CS Lewis – home to the White Witch.  A cold place, you’re just as likely to be turned into stone as to sit drinking hot chocolate and eating Turkish Delight.  Not recommended – unless you’re a wolf or an evil minion.
5. Hogwarts – JK Rowlings imagined school of Witchcraft and Wizardry – Oh yes, I suspect lots of people would like to pay a visit to this one.  Must see.
6. Azkaban – also from JK Rowlings world – a prison for those who take magic to the wrong extremes.  Definitely don’t want to go to this one – Dementors are not the friendliest of prison guards, they suck the joy out of anything.  A bit bleak if you ask me.
7. The Moon – as imagined by Andy Weir in his latest book Artemis.  This place is so well written it almost feels like it really exists – and I would love to visit.
8. Mars – also the setting of another of Andy Weir’s books – The Martian.  I would not like to be stranded alone on Mars trying to survive on a diet of potatoes and talking to myself.  A bit too isolated for my tastes.
9. Terre d’Ange – this is a richly imagined world created by Jacqueline Carey in her Kushiel’s Legacy series.  This place is fascinating, full of interesting things to see and places to visit, delicious sounding food, sumptuous balls, wonderfully imagined clothes – you would definitely want to visit.
10. Drujan – ruled by the Mahrkagir, this is one of Carey’s places that you would not want to visit.  A hideous place of cruelty and torture.  Phedre and Joscelin travel there in book three of the series – but only because they have to.