You only have to describe where you are in the book you reading right now: it might be outer space, Baltimore, Antarctica... and what are your characters doing?...

So, for example, I am an amateur biographer/bookseller currently in the dark wintery days of North Yorkshire listen to an old lady recount her childhood. However, she is a very unreliable narrator so how much is true? It is raining, cold and windy.

Your turn?

I have been shot & put on disability but am not happy with the Investigation as my friend was shot & killed. Do the killers that I briefly saw have diplomatic immunity? I have a source in the State Dept that I ask.....

Pat

Not sure about yours tho....

No idea where Pat is...

And I also got the first one but not the following two.

Rosefolly

My book just might be unfair, but I thought since most of us had a kindle they might get it? -it is a recent freebie!

Pat

Got the first one, too, but none of the others.

Pat, no, I am not Maisie Dobbs or anyone from that series.

Rosefolly

I am deep in Africa, about to go mountain-climbing with 2 couples. I am very nervous, as the situation in Kenya seems increasingly out of control, politically. Kenyatta may have to step down. I've been also attacked by fire ants and my car was stolen. We are talking of visiting Finch Hatton's grave.

What a fun thread!

Now Rosefolly, If I only knew your grandmother's middle name I'd be halfway there. I don't think it is 'Lark Rise . . .' because Flora was never a servant but worked in the Post Office in the 1890's.

Rosefolly

Book 2

Ritchie, Audrey and I are playing cards. I am so in Love with Audrey. I don't know how to tell her or should I tell her. I went to 13 Harrison Avenue.

Rosefolly - are you in Atonement?

I'm at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, off Rt 95.

LadyRose65, is your Book One Middlemarch?

Rosefolly

I have just returned to Paris after a long and successful tour abroad, and am worried that Parisians will no longer adore me. However, I have so many lovers to keep me warm and happy. I have the most outrageous wardrobe in Paris and men have literally covered me with jewels.

I am just about to enter the Atlantic Ocean (rounding South Africa right now), trying to find a safe place to land on Tristan da Cunha, a frequently unmentioned part of the British Empire... Weather is unpredictable and there are few safe harbours to land.

woodnymph, is your book A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve? It has been a while since I read it but it sounds familiar.

Book 1: I am a detective in Scotland, expecting twins, and working on a murder case that involves a man with two families who hanged himself. The murdered person is not a member of the families. I'm also dealing with difficult co-workers.

Book 2: I'm in Key West, attempting to get a job as a food writer for a new magazine, but I've been charged with the murder of the magazine owner, who also was responsible for the break-up of my recent relationship.

I don't really expect anyone to know these two books, especially the second one, but I'm unexpectedly quite enjoying them both.

I was in my basement looking for books and got drawn into a beloved re-read...so...here is an easy one.

Most of my friends got stuck working the docks after graduation. Tractors are replacing draft horses so not many jobs are available. Five years of hard labor in school and for what? So when the letter came to have tea in Yorkshire and discuss a position for an assistant, I could not believe my luck.

PAM

I am in the North Carolina mountains, trying to get a cabin built before the winter sets in, as I really don't want to live any longer with my rich relative up river from Wilmington.

As for me: It's 1970. I've been thinking about my youth in England from 1939 when war was declared (and I was at school) through 1947 when I was finally demobbed from the army. I've been collecting other people's reminiscences, too, and have put them into book form. One boy who was nine years old at the time recalls his impression of when the Yanks came: "They brought candy, chewing gum, cigarettes, and babies."

timallen, I would also like to know the title of your book! Ditto Frieda, yours sounds intriguing!

PAM

Now I am in China, with a man who is working as a doctor in a large city. His wife lives miles away from him, and he is trying to work out how to convince her to give him a divorce. Everything is run by the military and the government so not much individual freedom.

I'm on vacation at a wonderful Inn in the Irish countryside with my wife, who the previous night reinjured her ankle when a man jumped out of the armoire in our room when she came up to bed.

grelobe

Boo!

Now, I am in Shropshire in England, on a falling apart estate at the wedding of my soon-to-be sister in law and my engagement has been just broken. Lots of fog around and my sister has just arrived from London with two inappropriate acquaintences...