Happy Thursday, Readers! I am flying home from Ethiopia today and decided to time-release my own BTT since I will be unable to participate in the blogosphere today. By the way, my flight home includes my new, 10 month old niece who has never been on a plane, let alone a car seat, nevermind in the snow! Talk about culture shock… I’m sure she will sleep the entire 21 hour flight… 
Anyway, speaking of distant and unfamiliar places… Here is my question today:
What work of fiction do you think best expresses a “sense of place”?
Have you ever read anything that completely transported you not only into the lives of others, but into a place so thoroughly that you felt as if you had visited?
On a related note, have you ever visited a place, and then later read a work that captured your impressions of that land?
I have been to Africa once before — to Kenya — and was thrilled to find that Dinesen’s memoir (Out of Africa) truly captured the magic of that land. I will be curious to see how different my impressions of Ethiopia are from Kenya. I recently read there is no me without you, so it may be that I was well-prepared…
