Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books About/Set In Places on My Bucket List & Tell Me Something Tuesday: Do you like spoilers? Do you read the last chapter first? Share your thoughts.

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 

Happy Tuesday! Hope you're having a great week. I'm preparing for a short R&R trip with my husband later this week, so I hope to wrap up work-related things today. 

This week's Top Ten Tuesday asks us to share books about or set in places on our bucket lists. I can't say I have a real bucket list, but there are days I brain dump. All that list says is, "Travel more." I will see what I come up with for this one. 

Top Ten Books About/Set in Places on

My Potential Bucket List

1. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery is set on Prince Edward Island. My sister has been, and I would love to go.
2. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, which is set in the Australian Outback, would be an amazing place to visit. Not sure I could survive there.
3. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain is set in Paris, which I have often said I would like to visit.
4. The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg is set in Germany during World War II. Germany would be a beautiful place to visit.
5. Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is about the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. Visiting Civil War battlefields is an interest of mine.
6. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder is set at the Wilder farm in Burke, NY. Though it is the closest Wilder site to where I live, I've never been there. 
7. Elizabeth I by Margaret George is set in the late 1500s in England. My husband has been to London more than once. I've never even come close to England. I wish I had traveled there when Diana, Princess of Wales, lived there.
8. 16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber because it is set in Washington state. I've only once been to the western part of  North America, and I've never seen the far west coast. 
9. Kindred Spirits by Marilyn Meredith is set in a fictional town located in the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. I would love to see that part of California. 
10. Next Year in Jerusalem by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein needs to go on my list, too. I've wanted to travel to the heart of the Holy Land for years. 

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Tell Me Something Tuesday (TMST) is hosted by Jen Twimom at That's What I'm Talking About. TMST is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Participation is optional, and you can leave your comments in the weekly post when you participate. Check it out if you're interested in joining.

This week's Tell Me Something Tuesday asks if we like spoilers. I can't give you a consistent answer on that one. Many times, I will read the book all the way to the end without skipping ahead. Main reasons to skip ahead: I don't connect with the character(s), or the action is lagging.

Of the two, it's usually the first issue that makes me skip ahead. If I don't like the character(s) or I can't relate to what they're going through, why do I need to read through how they got to the end of the book? 

Of all genres, mystery is the one where I will most often seek out spoilers, because if I think I know who did it before the end of the book, then I want to find out if I am right. 

How about you?