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Hi, I’m Jennifer Deibel, but my friends call me Jen. I’m a middle school ELA teacher by day, wife and mom all the time, and writer by any other time. LOL I write Christian historical romance set in Ireland. My stories aim to whisk you away to rolling green hills, lilting music, and more while encouraging and challenging you in your faith journey, no matter where you are along that path. Oh, and there’s always some swoony kisses along the way. 😉 I hang out online mostly on Instagram, but also on Facebook. I hope to see you there!
My newest release is another dreamy historical romance, The Irish Matchmaker. Here’s what it’s about:
Catriona Daly is no stranger to the business of love–even though personally she has yet to find it. Eager for a match of her own and a fresh start away from her sleepy village, she makes grand plans for the annual Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival. She never expects a shy, widowed sheep farmer to distract her from her goal.
A matchmaking tale set in Ireland? Did you know that there’s a real life matchmaking festival that takes place every September in the wee village of Lisdoonvarna, even to this day??
Third generation matchmaker, Willie Daly, keeps the tradition alive that started way back in the late 1800’s!
It all started when a local doctor discovered the mineral spa wells scattered all around the area of this small village located in the heart of County Clare! I’d like to show you some of the real-life places that inspired this story!
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The Lisdoonvarna Spa Wells Heritage Center
© The John Hinde Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library
Once the good doctor discovered the wells and their medicinal qualities, he started advertising it to the wealthy in the area. They started coming to take the waters, and used it as an opportunity to make suitable matches for their children, as it was one fo the few times they were able to mingle with others of their own station.
Fun fact, this image makes up part of the cover of The Irish Matchmaker, and is an actual painted glass negative of a photo from the area at the time the story is set!
2. The Matchmaker Bar/Pub
Photo Credit: http://www.sheilahaycoxphotography.com/ireland.html
This wee pub in the heart of Lisdoonvarna is the inspiration for The Imperial Pub our heroine and her father live over. Catríona Daly and her father, Jimmy, are a nod to the generations of matchmakers that have helped people find their true love over the centuries. According to my research, this was originally named The Imperial Bar and was changed to The Matchmaker Bar later when the festival really gained traction and popularity.
3. This Lisdoonvarna Town Square
Photo found on Booking.com
Situated right in the heart of Lisdoonvarna, the town square serves as gathering place, picnic spot, and more for the locals. And the perfect place for a midday dance to celebrate the midpoint of the festival–which is what happens in The Irish Matchmaker. They’ve even erected sculptures of dancing couples of musicians. One of the most pivotal moments of the story takes place right on this exact spot.
Here’s the Stop #22 Basics:
If you’re interested, you can order The Irish Matchmaker on Baker Book House, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or at your local bookstore!
Clue to write down: a big TBR
Link to Stop #23, the next stop on the Loop: Tracie Peterson’s Site!
But, wait, there’s more!
I’m offering a special giveaway to anyone who stops by my post! You can win a signed bookplate for The Irish Matchmaker, a set of Irish-themed earrings, and a handmade version of Pete the Cow from the story!
Simply comment on this post with the favorite place you’ve traveled to via book! I’ll choose a winner at random once the contest closes!
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That cow is adorable
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Isn’t she adorable?? My mom made it. 💕
I’ve traveled to SO many places via book, but (if I’m forced to pick just one favorite), I’d have to say Narnia. Imagine meeting Aslan!
Narnia was my first thought, Kim!!!!!
I’ve always wanted Narnia to be real.
My favorite location I traveled to was Scotland.
Narnia and Middle Earth were my top two.
My favorite place would be France
The favorite place I have visited by book is probably Ireland.
I have traveled to sooo many places via book; I don’t know which one place to pick! For now, I will go with England as I have loved many books set in various parts of England.
My favorite place I’ve visited in a book is Italy.
Hello! My favorite book visit is Italy!
My favorite international place I’ve visited in a book is probably Ireland, and my favorite US place is the Appalachia region.
My favorite place would probably be Alaska.
My favorite book destination is Narnia!
Or England, if you want want somewhere real.
The cow is adorable Jennifer. My favorite place to visit was Richmond VA during the Civil War.
Thanks for the opportunity to win these wonderful prizes
Pete is darling! One of my favorite places that I’ve traveled via book is Ireland.
London for me.
Back in time
Books have taken me to many amazing places, but if I have to choose one, I will say Cornwall!
Forever and always Narnia.
That’s so cute! I love traveling to Ireland, Scotland, and England through books!
My favorite place to travel by book is Scotland.
My favorite place is England.
I don’t know what is my favorite place.
My favorite place I have traveled through a book was either Scotland or Italy!
This is so fun! I would have to choose Norway!
My favorite place to travel to in a book is Scotland, Ireland, and Cornwall. It can be historical, contemporary, time travel, or fantasy.
How do I choose one favorite?! I love to travel to Ireland, Scotland, and England in my books.
My favorite place was a lighthouse in Maine.
Germany! I haven’t been but hope to some day!
My favorite place to visit by book is Germany for sure!
I would have to say England.
I’ve loved travelling to several places in Europe via books!
I have loved so many places, I can’t choose a favorite! Thank you!
Renaissance Florence
I love to travel to Ireland in stories and maybe one day in real life!
How does one choose one favorite place traveled through a book?!! I love medieval times, as well as Scotland, Ireland, and Alaska.
The Irish Matchmaker looks amazing! I love how you making learning about history so intriguing!
I’ve been to Japan, Canada and Moldova/Romania in real life but my favorite literary travel is the British Isles!
I love traveling to Ireland and Scotland in novels! Someday I’ll hopefully actually be able to go and see these places.
I’ve traveled all over this world, as well as worlds of the imagination. I love books that take me back in time to the WWII Era and the old west. What ever book I’m reading,is my favorite place.
My favorite place via a book is Assisi Italy
A castle library! I love it more when there is a secret door. I have a track on Amazon music app of castle library sounds to really absorb the scenes.
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That is so cool, I love it!
My favorite place I have traveled in a book was Scotland. Oh my goodness, the cow is adorable, it is so cute!! Both my daughter and my grandaughter Love, love cows!! Thank you so much for the chance of this Awesome and so generous giveaway! Your book sounds like a great read! Have a great day and a great rest of the week.
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Isn’t Pete so adorable?? My mom made her (yes, her lol). You’ll have to read the book to get the backstory on that. lol
It sounds like a very good book, and the cover is beautiful!
Ireland!
I mean to mention but forgot to say that my son’s name is Peter and a couple of my family members call him Pete. 🙂
A book I enjoyed very much took me to Venice!
Scotland!
My favorite place I’ve visited via book is Ireland! 😀
I loved going to Prince Edward Island via books. Can’t wait to visit Ireland in your new book.💚
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Have you read Liz Johnson?? She has some great PEI series!!
A secret garden from The Secret Garden. 🙂
I don’t know if I have a favorite. I just love books that immerse you into the setting. Whether it’s in England, Texas, or the middle of the ocean. I simply love traveling by book.📚😁
In a book, probably Scotland. Or the wilds of early America
Favorite place I’ve visited by book is Thessalonika Greece.
My favorite place i’ve been to via book is England.
I truly love all of your books!!!!! I subscribed to your newsletter. Please enter me in the giveaway!
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Awww, thanks!! You’re in for my giveaway!
Make sure to collect all the clues and go enter for the grand prize!!
My favorite place I’ve visited via book is Scotland!
via a book the bayou.
My favorite place I’ve traveled via book is probably Scotland!
Ooooh that’s so hard, I love traveling anywhere with a book! Since I have to pick I’d have to say either England or the American/Canadian frontiers, but I could go on a whole other tangent with fictional lands 🙂
Any historical location 🙂
Ireland is my favorite place to visit in a book. I recently read your Irish Matchmaker book and loved it. I’m ready for the next one anytime you are.
My favorite place I’ve traveled to via book is Ireland.
Oh, goodness! My favorite place I have ever visited in a book is not a real place. I love the make believe places. And that cow makes me wish I was crafty!
I have been to so many places. Alaska, Hogwarts, Space, the future
Paris is always a favorite book destination for me!
I’m a farm wife so I’ve never been anywhere besides the Might Mackinac Bridge in my own state of Michigan.
my favorite place is England!
Pete is so cute!
My favorite literary travel destination is hands down: Narnia!
Anywhere with a lighthouse, but St Simon’s Island, Ga, USA, is the best. Thank you, Eugenia Price!
Sienna and Florence for me!
My favorite place I have traveled by book is probably Hogwarts.
Idk why I like WWII fiction so much, since I certainly don’t want to travel to any of those locations lol! So Im choose the fictional kingdom in Toni Shiloh’s (To Win a) Prince books!
My favorite place to visit via book is maybe Ireland or Scotland
I can’t really name a favorite because I fall in love with each area in every book. That said, I REALLY want to visit Israel!
That cow is adorable my favorite place to visit in a book would probably be the palace from the coronation!
I love regency era England!
My favorite place I’ve traveled in a book is the planet Drosero in Ronie Kendig’s space opera series the Droseran Saga.
I love Ireland; the history is fascinating and the country is beautiful. I would love to travel there someday, but in the meantime, I satisfy myself by learning about the Irish people and the Faith throughout the years. I would love to win this raffle!
I love most of the places I have traveled to via books, but my favorite is Australia.
I’m not sure I can pick a favorite place to visit via book. I might say Ireland because I’ve also been able to visit in person and it’s so amazing to walk through the places I’ve read about. However, I also love ‘visiting’ ancient Israel!
I always love to travel via books to the British Isles. Some of my maternal ancestors were from there.
England
My favorite place to travel via book has been England.
I don’t know that I have a favorite fictional reading location but I would definitely enjoy Paris. The crow is so cute! Kudos to you Mom for making him!
Pete the cow is so sweet! I love sewing people make crocheted crafts. My great-grandma always loved crocheting and crafting, and now I’m trying my hand at it again! 😊
My favorite place I’ve traveled to via a book would have to be medieval Germany!
Spain
England, Ireland. Paris
Favorite completely fictional travels: Narnia and Middle Earth.
Real places: Ireland and Germany (during multiple historical eras).
Also the cow is adorable, I love crocheted animals! And I might like the earrings even more…
My favorite places to travel to in books are Colonial America, Ireland and Scotland.
There are so many places but Jerusalem has to be the number one place. Any time period. I would love to see it with my own eyes someday.
So many places to choose from… one of my favorites – Amassia. BTW love Pete the cow! Thanks for the chance!
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I think my favorite place would be Scotland!! Love the cow!!!
I love reading books set in England or really anywhere in the UK. 🙂
Books have taken me so many places it is hard to pick just one! Some of my favorites are Ireland (your books 🙂), England (Jane Austen), and Hawaii (Sara Ackerman).
Pete is adorable, and I love the earrings! Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!
Australia! Koalas are my favorite animal. However, my 1st kitchen theme as a new bride back in ’97 was Cows! 🐮 Thanks for the opportunity to participate in your fun giveaway! 😁
Reading takes me to so many lovely places it’s hard to decide, if I had to choose just one I’d have to say Scotland since I haven’t yet read much set in Ireland and I enjoy learning about where my ancestors came from.
Love historical novels to escape to faraway lands. My favorite has been to Egypt in Wilbur Smith historical novels.
Definitely the British Isles, especially Regency England
I love that books let you travel everywhere! I loved traveling to London, Ireland, and Charleston SC
Islands
My favorite place I have traveled by book is probably Scotland or medieval Italy.
My favorite place is London.
I’m reading Embers in the London Skies
by Sarah Sundin. London 1940.
That is too hard of a question to answer with just one place. When I fell in love as a preteen with Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth it would have been China. As a college student, I read lots of spy books and it would have been many different European countries. When I read regency romances, it would have been England, Scotland and maybe Ireland. I also like what another person posted. Back in time.
I ❤️ the cow! Books have taken me so many places that I will probably never see in person. It is hard to choose a favorite, but I would say within the US- Alaska and international- Ireland.
I was intrigued listening to an audiobook set in Armenia – what a rich history of which I was so ignorant!
Scotland!
My favorite place that I have traveled to is Scotland and their many castles.
My favorite place that I’ve visited via book was Paris in Sarah Sundin’s “Until Leaves Fall in Paris”.
The cow is so cute! Definitely want to read this book. Books have taken me many places ….love old English countryside and the Netherlands
One of my favorite places I’ve travelled in a book have been the Isles of Scilly
Probably Rome from The Mark of The Lion series.
Some of my favorite places I’ve visited while reading is Scotland and the East Coast of America!
I’ve traveled to Greece and Italy by book.
It’s almost impossible to choose. But Ireland is pretty near the top of the list.
Italy in the 1500s
My favorite place would be Ireland.
Via book? Scotland, Ireland, England, Belgium, Russia, South Korea, Japan… So Many Places!
I’m *finally* finishing The Maid of Ballymacool this month. Edit jobs and life got in the way of my savoring the finale until now. Totally looking forward to reading Matchmaker too!
My favorites are Ireland and Italy.
My favorite place to visit (so far) through a book has been medieval Germany (thank you, Melanie Dickerson!).
I LOVE the sound of your book and can’t wait to read it!
I think my favorite place has been Athera in Christopher Hopper’s Lion Chronicles. But almost every good series is one I would love to find myself in. I’m funny that way.
I think my favorite place to travel in a book would be the forest moon of Endor from the Star Wars books
My favorites are London, Scotland, and medieval Germany.
My favorite place I’ve traveled to in a book is Scotland. Its so fun to travel in books.
I love to visit Victorian London, especially in historical mysteries.
I have traveled via books to Ireland, the U.K., Scotland, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. I mostly read historical and am now writing historical and contemporary. The Irish Matchmaker seems like a great story and I can’t wait to read it. Your story reminds me of the movie, “Leap Year” starring Amy Adams. It is a comedy, romance, and set in Ireland. I signed up for your newsletter. 🙂
My favorite place to travel via book is Pennsylvania Amish country or any of the states that have Amish
Hmm probably the islands off the coast of the UK.
Carmel-by-the-Sea! Not only my favorite place in real life but it was also a setting for the novel I enjoyed reading!
One of the most interesting places I’ve traveled is Prague in the Czech Republic. I went to work at an English camp in the mountains three different summers, but we used Prague as our headquarters as we landed and before we left to fly home. The city is beautiful and is full of history and interesting places. We’ve come to know many delightful Czech people as well!
Eden or Bethlehem.
Books take me to so many places…hard to choose a favorite…..I guess it would be the castles and countryside of Europe. Switzerland and Austria from Sound of Music and Heidi.
The favorite place I’ve ever travelled via a book is Paris, France. I know! how clique but true.
I went down and looked at my book collection (my daughter says library) and I just couldn’t choose just one place! Some are real places and some are made up but so many are special to me.
My favorite book places to visit are Regency England, Narnia, Middle Earth, and the Bean farm.
Alaska
Ireland!
My favorite place I’ve “travelled” via books would be Europe.
So far, it is England for me.
Gee Whiz! That’s not easy. I have read many books set in Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Scotland and England. I have many ancestors who hail from those places as well. So, I would just have to kinda cheat and say my favorite place would be the United Kingdom.
BTW, I agree the cow is adorable, but I’m a sucker for those earrings.
Cross country-USA
My favorite place to travel via book has been London!
Some of my favorite places I’ve visited through books include European countries – Italy, England, Ireland, Spain, and France, and Africa, and Asia as well. I love traveling through books!
I think my favorite place that I traveled by book was London. 🇬🇧
Books I loved that were set in London:
“Embers In The London Sky”
Sarah Sundin
“The Thief Of Blackfriars Lane”
Michelle Griep
“The Blue Diamond”
Leonard Goldberg
How can I pick just one! I love the historical settings and the fantastical settings. I love the beach settings the exotic and the familiar! Give me them all!
My favorite place I have visited in a book is Wonderland. I love the story and the place.
Ireland! Can’t wait to read your books.
My favorite place I’ve traveled via book would be Ireland (because that is #1 place on my bucket list) and Scotland. Thank you for being a part of the Scavenger Hunt and offering this fun giveaway.
Books that take me to communities where Christianity is flourishing.
Oh, this is hard. I would say Ireland. I also want to visit for real one day!
Narnia.
Wow! A favourite place I’ve traveled… via book… That’s hard! Ancient Israel? Or… perhaps Ancient Greece?
(By the by, the cow’s so cute!)
Ooh fun!! My favorite place I’ve traveled via fiction is probably Ireland and Scotland through your and other authors books. ☺️
I love book-visiting Flanders
I loved time traveling to Scotland with Clare and Jamie in The Outlander series.
My favorite place was to Jamaica
Oh, what a fun question! I have been to the Dakota Territories via Little House books! I have never visited the in person.
I’m re-reading Narnia right now, and it’s probably my favorite book destination! I also love visiting Hawaii and California with Christy Miller.
My favorite place that I’ve traveled via book is Italy!
I have visited Ireland, Italy, and Egypt recently. I loved each of those beautiful book “travels!”
My favorite place to travel via book is Ireland – and I’m not just saying that because this book is set there!
My favorite place to travel by book is Prince Edward Island, beginning with the Anne of Green Gables books when I was a child. Since then, I’ve travelled to many wonderful places when reading.
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If you love PEI, definitely check out Liz Johnson’s books! She has a couple amazing series set there!
I am currently reading A Dance at Donegal, and Ireland is my new favorite place to book travel! I would love to see the rolling green hills and rugged coast
Every time I read a book I think it’s my new desired location (if written well). Having grown up in Europe I have been to most places. However, there are three that elude me: Ireland, Scotland, and Japan.
I’ve loved traveling to both Colonial America and World War Two England
Defiantly hogwarts!!
My favorite place I have traveled in a book is back in time. I love reading historicals, especially England Regency.
Every time I read a book with Ireland in it, I want to go there even more! I’m adding you to my TBR list!
I don’t know if I can answer that question. So many books, so many destinations…but I love the earrings so much! My husband and I are big fans of Celtic things.
So many places and books… I would say Ireland and Scotland.
Hmmm, I’d say Kauai…
One of my favorite book travels was to The Secret Garden. Who doesn’t want to watch a garden come back to life? <3
My favorite place to visit via book is Alaska. I’d love to go there for real some day.
I just finished a series of books about Serendipity, Texas by Debra Kastner. Whatever books I am reading happen to be my favorite travel destination.
I love to visit Scotland in books and someday I would love to in person.
I love to travel to London in books!
Dickens’s England!
I too long to visit Scotland after traveling there through books yet not yet having the chance to be there in person. Although my ancestors were found mostly in Edinburgh and Glasgow, it is the Highlands which calls my to heart. Perhaps someday…
My favorite place I’ve ever travelled to by book would be Rivendell from The Lord of the Rings.
my favorite place to read is St Martin. I travel all over from there.
This book looks so delightful, I’ll have to add it to my goodreads list! A place I have traveled via book as got to be Gabrielle Myers’s “When the Day comes”
My favorite book place was the Isles of Scilly and Israel. Would love to go there in real life ♥️
Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Have you read Liz Johnson’s books?? She has some great series set on PEI!
There are so many places I’ve really loved, but I think I would have to go with Ellesmera from the Inheritance Cycle.
The Scottish Highlands!
My favorite place I have visited via a book is back in time. Love historical fiction.
My favorite place I have traveled to in books is the UK (England, Scotland, Wales) and Ireland. I would love to visit there someday in person!
Ireland for me. My mom is 100% Irish.
France
Antarctica!
Hagenheim!
My favorite book travel destination is probably Scotland!
My favorite place is Bath
My favorite is New Zealand.
Bellingwood, Iowa via the Bellingwood mysteries.
This questions was very hard to answer. I have traveled so many places that I would love to visit. I am going to go with Europe. (England, France, Ireland, Sweden ect.)
I’ve been loving the Irish Matchmaker. How fun to get some background info!
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I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! Thank you for reading!
My favorite place I have traveled to via book is historic England, probably either in medieval times or in the Regency era. It is such a different world, so much so that it almost seems like a made up place!
Cornwall in England!
Probably Ireland
Oh goodness! Probably Paris or Italy. Both of which are on my real life bucket list. But I love that I have traveled there already in books!
My favorite place to visit via book in the United States is the Grand Canyon. My favorite place outside the United States would be England.
My favorite places I’ve travelled via book are Ireland, as well as early 1900s England.
I love to visit Ireland or England
Ireland with your books!
Paris
One of the favorite places I’ve traveled via books is Australia! After that, definitely Ireland through yours!
Ireland, Scotland, 1800s Montana Territory, too many to list.
LOVE the cow! I grew up on a dairy farm – it’s adorable!
Favorite bookish place? So hard! As a kid I read the books my grandmother gave me over and over, and I loved Heidi. I was fascinated with her life in the Alps, so I’d say that. I love the mountains.
I love visiting Ireland through your stories! Love love love! If I could go anywhere in the world it would be Ireland. I’ve always been fascinated by China as well, so I also LOVE the book “All the Tea in China” by Jane Orcutt. Soooo good!
I’ve read every single one of your books Jennifer and my favorite place to “visit” through a book is Ireland because of you! 🙂 I love all the details in your novel of all the places you write about, I always feel like I’m right there.
Thank you for the extra giveaway, the fun pictures of the places in your latest book “The Irish Matchmaker” and participating in the scavenger hunt!
Books take us so many places don’t they – real and imaginary. Love your writing!
Favorite place would be the Lake District of England courtesy of Pride and Prejudice.
My favorite place I’ve traveled via book is the shire.
The kingdom of Sondmark in Keira Dominguez books!!
PEI, St. Simons
Your book sounds like so much fun! It’s hard to pick a favorite place I’ve traveled by book, but I really love things set in the Wild West.
Hogwarts, Narnia, Scotland, Ireland. London, and Topia.
It seems that my favorite place is wherever the people are in the current book I am reading. Whether in the old west or in England. I like the earrings.
My favorite place would be home (MD, most lately Laurel, where my parents lived in a senior apartment complex before they died) and I’d like to travel to the fictitious planet Perelandra (2nd book in the space trilogy created for adults by C.S. Lewis).
I love traveling to Scotland through books!
I’d say anywhere in the UK, but I’ll pick Wales as my favorite place I’ve traveled in a book!
It’s so hard to choose just one place that I have traveled to in a book! It woulsld definitely be a European country. Since today is St. Patrick’s Day, and I just finished a book set in Ireland, I am going say that Ireland is currently my favorite place to book travel! I am excited to check out your books!
Thank you for the opportunity! I loved your latest novel!!!!
My favorite place to visit is The Great Smoky Mountains.
The future and the past, England, Ireland and Alaska!
Southern Ireland (including Lisdoonvarna) was my favorite place to visit so far.
Italy!! 🙂
I always love visiting Ireland books!
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway. Pete would fit right in with the cattle on the farm. Your mom did a great job.
Your question is hard but fun to consider. There are many places I have traveled to by book. I guess my favorite (at the moment) would have to be the Tennessee publishing house in Meet Me in the Margins. I just finished it and I would love to grab a ton of ARCs to read and slip into the secret room to read. (I’ve also traveled to a multitude of countries and one year read a book set in each of the 50 states plus Washington, DC so it’s hard to choose that is why I went with a place I know has lots of books.)
The UK
I like to read stories set in England and Ireland.
Probably England, but I’ve “traveled” to many wonderful places!
Ireland.
I love traveling the USA either for real or in books. Appalachia region is a good one and anywhere around the beach.
I think I have most enjoyed stories set in the British Isles and Scandinavian areas as they are places I have ever been and they are quite different from my midwestern life.
I have traveled in Europe. So I would love to go to the Scotland of my clan’s roots. I would really love to see Ireland someday, too!
Times and places I would not be able to in reality–for instance, historical China, or outer space 🙂
My favorite place I’ve visited by book is probably Scotland.
That’s a tough question to answer. Probably Ireland because I’ve always wanted to travel there, but also the Smoky Mountains. Having been to the Smoky Mountains, I enjoy reading about things I recognize, or it spurs me to look up the places I don’t, so I can plan my next visit.
I enjoyed visiting Montana. My dream trip is Ireland.
I’m going with Ireland.
I’m wee bit Irish – Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all 🍀
Have a cow themed kitchen and love me some signed real books!
Great prizes!
I love reading books set in Alaska and the old west.
How can I choose a favorite place I’ve traveled while reading? I’ve been reading daily for over 60 years. I was the most ecstatic student when I learned to read with the famous basal readers of the sixties! Since then, I have suffered dramatically from abibliophilia, and I have done my best to correct this issue as can be seen by the 1000s of books on my Kindle as well as 1000 of books in my home. One of the main things I love about reading is that it can take me to places I may never be able to travel. Books have also taken me on great adventures where I can dine at fabulous restaurants and meet wonderful new people who have become like friends. Books have allowed me to escape pain, sorrow, illness, and boredom and be entertained, educated, and inspired. I could never choose one favorite place because many books have met my various needs.
My favorite place I have traveled via book is regency England.
Hawaii or Ireland. This is a great hunt!
Every new book I read becomes my new favorite place! I enjoy all the different places that books take me. I especially like it when a book takes me somewhere that I makes me want to research it and go check out on my own.
My favorite place I’ve traveled reading is the Highlands of Scotland. It’s on my bucket list to go in person soon!
Your books have taken me to Ireland! Thank you!!
My favorite place traveled via book is PEI.
I enjoy the behind the scenes of the Biltmore Mansion in North Carolina via Maid to Match by Deanne Gist but I agree with others, I have read so many books and enjoyed so many places I have been through them that I cannot remember them all. Thanks to all you authors for such a treat.
I loved traveling to Avonlea in Anne of Green Gables.
My favorite place I’ve traveled via book is Ireland…I hope I get the opportunity to travel there for real some day ❤️
Prague, over 35 years ago. Finally visited in person in 2019.
I’m not sure wish is my favorite. I love seeing each place in a different time.
Oh, hard choice! Um…probably England!
My favorite place would be Ireland or Italy.
I just have to say, I absolutely love that cow. If I win I would be giving it to my cow-obsessed 15 year old daughter.
Anyway, favorite place I’ve traveled via book. . . this is hard as I’ve traveled so many places. I really did enjoy traveling to Ireland in The Irish Matchmaker. It was a new place for me, as so many of the other books that I read that are overseas are to England. Which isn’t a bad place, I have family there. But I’d love to head to Ireland one of these days.
narnia and more…
I have had the great privilege of visiting Ireland in real life on a choir tour in 2019. I hope I can go back someday. One of my favorite places I traveled in a book was India in the Silk series by Linda Chaikin.
I would have to say, my favorite places visited by book are either Ireland or Italy. Hopefully one day I will be able to see both of them in person.