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Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

hmm.. I didn't realise so many books used Peterborough as a base! It just stuck in my head because I was reading A Short History (which was last years orange prize novel) recently when I was in Cambridge.
Well, it's possible that only A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian and the book I read, were set in Peterborough, in recent years. :D
 
I’m at Mount Sinai receiving instructions from the Almighty and giving them to the Israelites that I just lead out of Egypt.
 
I'm in a tiny rundown apartment in small town Kansas and my best friend just started dating my first love.
 
Onboard HMS Juno, a 32 gun Frigate in about 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Hey, I'm at sea too. Being beseeched by a stowaway to intervene with the captain on his behalf. But it's 1849. We're destined for California apparently.
 
Hey, I'm at sea too. Being beseeched by a stowaway to intervene with the captain on his behalf. But it's 1849. We're destined for California apparently.


Ahoy, bren!!

I can't tell you out destination because we're at war with France, and if the word got out I could be hung for being a spy. You understand, I'm sure.
 
Book 1:

I'm Augusten Burroughs and my dad just let the family gerbil starve death after mom took off due to dad's drunken psychotic episode. I also awoke to find him sitting across from my bed glaring at me, the family dog growling at him as my only protection for the time being....

Book 2:

I'm in the Clinton White House and witnessing the fight between economic populists and deficit hawks like Lloyd Bentsen. Hillary is about to launch into her ill-fated healthcare plan.
 
London, impersonating a dead artist, contemplating the necessity of another murder.

Ripley Under Ground
 
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