Sure. Line 218 here. (OK, slight misquotation on my part – it’s “give us the place” rather than “this place,” but that’s an even closer match to the Bridgerton phrasing.)
Interesting. Who’d’a thunk!
Ngram viewer does show it taking off in the last few years, though, so at least I’m not entirely nuts.
Nothing but what the author has written for me. I don’t imagine seeing the characters through my own eyes.
Please elaborate. You don’t fill in any details - as to their appearances/surroundings? You don’t think, “Hmm, is that how I would act/react? Or how I would expect someone to act?”
I suspect I’m misinterpreting your brief comment, because I thought one of the appeals of reading fiction was that you created a personal mental image of what was on the page. I’ve also heard folk complain of film adaptations, b/c the movie was not how they had imagined it.
Appearances probably. Not how I would act/react or expect someone to act. Reading is an escape for me, no audience participation from my end. After I’m done reading I sometimes imagine a continued story, or consider the characters transported to my time and place, but they’re still just the way the author described them.