I have to say, I would never have believed that cat to not be a real one, had I not been told it was a drawing.
I live in Toronto, Canada, where the winters are still Canadian, but mild in comparison to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where I was born and raised.
I don't really read cozies, but I love the American descendants of the "hard-boiled" stories, and I have only one book left right now in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series, unless (I hope!), he writes more. But Harry might have passed the torch to Renee Ballard. But in those novels, the City of Angels is virtually a character in the tale, to the point that - before the wildfires - L.A. would have been the one city in the US that I would have really wanted to see. And eat from In 'n Out Burger, and at Frank and Musso's. And maybe Chinese Friends.
My other main pleasure is horror, and we all know Stephen King's love of New England. But for the British Isles, there is Ramsey Campbell, the majority of whose tales are set in the southwest of England, like Cornwall, within sight of the Welsh border. Apparently, also lots of Celtic (pre-Anglo-Saxon) sites. And when you ride with him, you feel like you know the place, and are immersed in it, just like riding through L.A. with Connelly and Bosch or Ballard, where Connelly actually describes the traffic and the routes chosen because of it.
It is a great thing for authors to set their stories where they know the place like the back of their hand.
A thing that actually bothers me a lot is that a lot of horror movies are shot in my native Manitoba, and other Canadian provinces, but they pretend they are in the US. I always hate that, especially when it would not affect the story at all to set it where it is shot!
Ah! What a shame they don't celebrate the areas they are filmed.
My husband has been reading and collecting the Bosch series!
There is a whole world out there to be explored and I love to see it shared in books and movies. Thank you so much for stopping in and sharing your thought.
I have to say, I would never have believed that cat to not be a real one, had I not been told it was a drawing.
I live in Toronto, Canada, where the winters are still Canadian, but mild in comparison to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where I was born and raised.
I don't really read cozies, but I love the American descendants of the "hard-boiled" stories, and I have only one book left right now in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series, unless (I hope!), he writes more. But Harry might have passed the torch to Renee Ballard. But in those novels, the City of Angels is virtually a character in the tale, to the point that - before the wildfires - L.A. would have been the one city in the US that I would have really wanted to see. And eat from In 'n Out Burger, and at Frank and Musso's. And maybe Chinese Friends.
My other main pleasure is horror, and we all know Stephen King's love of New England. But for the British Isles, there is Ramsey Campbell, the majority of whose tales are set in the southwest of England, like Cornwall, within sight of the Welsh border. Apparently, also lots of Celtic (pre-Anglo-Saxon) sites. And when you ride with him, you feel like you know the place, and are immersed in it, just like riding through L.A. with Connelly and Bosch or Ballard, where Connelly actually describes the traffic and the routes chosen because of it.
It is a great thing for authors to set their stories where they know the place like the back of their hand.
A thing that actually bothers me a lot is that a lot of horror movies are shot in my native Manitoba, and other Canadian provinces, but they pretend they are in the US. I always hate that, especially when it would not affect the story at all to set it where it is shot!
Ah! What a shame they don't celebrate the areas they are filmed.
My husband has been reading and collecting the Bosch series!
There is a whole world out there to be explored and I love to see it shared in books and movies. Thank you so much for stopping in and sharing your thought.