Squirrel Haus

Day 13 of #ReadJanuary is #setinyrcity

I live in a tiny town in Iowa, and I'm not aware of any books set in my town. But! I have several options for books set in my state. 😃

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christineandbooks Just read Readers of Broken Wheel... it was really good! 7y

awishman I'm in Iowa too! 😘 7y

Gina Squirrel Haus looks interesting 7y

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sprainedbrain @Gina It was! Takes place in my college town. 7y

sprainedbrain @awishman Yay! I'm in the southeast part of the state. 7y

sprainedbrain @christineandbooks that one has been in my stack for a while. Looking forward to it! 7y

awishman I'm in Des Moines. We are practically neighbors! 😉 7y

Gina @sprainedbrain Sweet, now if my TBR pile doesn't desend down on me that would be magnificent ;) 7y

sprainedbrain @awishman we are!! I'm up your way often! 7y

sprainedbrain @Gina good luck with that. 😂 7y

balletbookworm Gotta plug Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, set in Nevada. I'm going to use it for the "books set within 100 miles of your home" category for the #readharder2017 challenge. It's right around 100 miles away depending on what part of town you measure from?

Universal Harvester

sprainedbrain @balletbookworm That looks interesting! 7y

balletbookworm And weirdly, though I live in the Iowa City area, there aren't a whole lot of books actually set in town - perhaps odd given the MFA program. 7y

Tcip It turns out that if you don't like westerns, Arizona is a really shitty place for books :) my #readharder2017 is going to be rough on that end. 7y

rustoryhuf I'm from a tiny town in Iowa and we didn't have stoplights, let alone a book set in the town! 7y

sprainedbrain @Tcip oh bummer! 7y

sprainedbrain @balletbookworm Squirrel Haus is set in Iowa City!! 7y

sprainedbrain @rustoryhuf Same here! No stop lights in my town either. 😂 7y

rustoryhuf @sprainedbrain Montezuma for me. Middle of the state about 60 mi east of Des Moines. You? 7y

sprainedbrain @rustoryhuf Batavia... way down south! 7y

rustoryhuf @sprainedbrain Oh My Gosh!!!! My husband is from Batavia. His parents grew up there and is brother still lives there during the summer. 7y

sprainedbrain @rustoryhuf small world! I'm not originally from Batavia, but we have lived here for almost 6 years now. 7y

rustoryhuf @sprainedbrain Wow. Just Wow. How cool. If you run across any Huffman's they're hubby's peeps! 7y

balletbookworm @sprainedbrain wait what?? That blurb needs rewritten! 😱 *adds to tbr* 7y

sprainedbrain @balletbookworm Yep, I read it for a challenge in 2015 when I was supposed to read a book set in my hometown. My college town was as close as I could come. 😂 7y

sprainedbrain @rustoryhuf now I'm going to be looking for them! 😃 7y

rustoryhuf @sprainedbrain 😆😆let me know if find them!! 7y

balletbookworm @sprainedbrain the IC library does not have it (boooooo) but I can get a nook book for $7.50 😃 7y

sprainedbrain @balletbookworm yeah, I got it for my kindle. 😃 7y

lynneamch @rustoryhuf @sprainedbrain No stopllights, but there is a library in this NE Iowa town. Set in Janesville, Iowa (pop. 850 when I left) --part set in Waterloo which is a larger town nearby

The Magician's Lie

sprainedbrain @lynneamch thank you! This looks interesting too. 7y

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