It's that time of year again
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Long summer holidays coming up, including two weeks in Greece.
What can I read?
I need gripping and exciting novels (no chick-lit, no overly lit-fic) that will last me for a day or two each (read very, very quickly).
Things I have enjoyed recently are:
- all the CJ Sansoms
- World Without End and the other one
- A murder-mystery featuring Oscar Wilde
- re-reading Brideshead Revisited
- the Frank Talis Viennese mysteries
- somebody Kellerman - a mystery about an artist - was a Richard and Judy
Favourite authors ever are Austen and Stephen King but of course, I've read all of theirs.
Chocolate and sleep - they always sound good!
History books, yes. Historical novels, probably mostly no.
Although I read my first georgette Heyer earlier this year and think I could cope with another of hers.
How about Dorothy Dunnett? Or is historical not your thing?(and even for a fast reader they might last longer than a day or two..)
..and post MT is definitely possible,I'm fine pre now but post is another matter.Chocolate is the answer.And sleep.
Thanks Pointy.
it's good, yes, but hard reading at times due to subject matter. I am very bad at remembering books other than good/bad.
Nope - is it good?
you read The Bone People by Keri Hulme?
Pointy - usually I'm fine but this time I have the most awful sugar cravings and am tired and snappy.
Anybody want to explain Hawksmoor to me?
Ahundredtimes -
no idea yet. Nothing much has grabbed me yet - am sure there are more books out there!
I don't get pre-mt never mind post-mt. I have annoyed people in the past by insinuating it is exaggerated. I have been put in my place already, though, so please no one take offence.
Finished 'Hawksmoor' - am clearly a thicko because I Just Didn't Get it At All. AT ALL I tell you! WTF was it going on about?
I will return to this thread when I am less stressy and stupid, as I appear incapable of even deciding between biscuit, or cake; black skirt, or purple skirt; sleep or bath at the moment - and books are so much more important than any of those!
I swear I do get post MT as well, or maybe I'm just a grumpy old hag
