Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
It's been a while since I've done a Top Ten Tuesday. This week's topic is Ten Things I've Googled Because of a Book. I can't tell you how many internet rabbit holes I've fallen down because I started googling something I read in a book. I've googled things because I don't know what they are or I want to learn more about something. I've also googled things that don't make sense to me or things that I think an author has gotten wrong. I find it fun, learning about new ideas and I love it when a book takes me on an adventure outside of the story.
Here are ten things I've googled because of a book:
1. I've googled so many foreign places, cities, and countries that books take place in, mainly to see where they are on the map.
2. I read a lot of historical fiction so I like to google the real people and the events that take place in these books.
3. I've also googled animals in books, especially if it's an animal I'm not familiar with so that I can see what it looks like.
Specifically, I've googled:
4. What time does the sun set in Alaska on July 4th, while reading a book set during the summer in Alaska.
5. Where is Skane, Sweden, while reading a book set in Sweden.
6. Who were the Jacobites, after reading a Susanna Kearsley book.
7. What is a rook and what does it look like (turns out it is a black-feathered bird in the crow family).
8. I read the whole Wikipedia page about the sinking of the RMS Lusitania (thanks to reading Dead Wake by Erik Larson).
I also enjoy googling authors to learn more about them. Specifically, I've googled:
9. Nora Roberts, to learn more about the inn she owns in Maryland that is based on her Inn BoonsBoro trilogy.
10. Again, after reading Dead Wake by Erik Larson, I went to Wikipedia to read about Erik Larson's background and to see what other books he wrote.
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