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So I have got nine books

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janeite · 04/08/2009 18:00

Nine books for a two week holiday - do you think I am likely to cope, or will I be chewing my own arm in frustration after day six?

I have got:
The Moonstone
The Woman In White
Let The Right One In (Swedish vampire thing)
Netherland
Something about a rat that I found in a charity shop - can't remember what it is
Tom Bedlam
Something about WW1 - forgotten what it is
A Georgette Heyer
Animal Farm (re-read)

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Terpsichore · 04/08/2009 18:17

Ooh, 'The Woman in White' is fab. I once took it on a family holiday when I was about 13, and had finished it by the time we got to our destination....er, about 3 hours' drive away (my parents were doing the driving, obviously!). I felt like my eyes were going to fall out of my head with all that 'extreme reading', but I just HAD to find out what happened.

These days we never go away without about 20 books for a 2-week holiday. Luckily I managed to marry another insane dedicated reader.

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janeite · 04/08/2009 18:12

Yes they are older and have their own books to read so I can happily ignore them on the flight!

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BecauseImWorthIt · 04/08/2009 18:11

At least Kate Mosse can write long, grammatically complex sentences - not like the bloody books I was reduced to reading! Honestly it made me wonder how those writers ever got contracts.

Flying awkward because although you may need more books it adds to your weight. But I would definitely add a couple more if you can.

SobriquetDuJour · 04/08/2009 18:11

BIWI, what is this 'book per flight' you speak of?

Can't remember the last flight that wasn't punctuated with Muummy..Muuuuuuuum..I need a wee...Mum he hit me.....blah blah, you get the picture

I'm guessing you have older dcs Janeite? Am at your pile to read

mumblechum · 04/08/2009 18:09

Yes, Kate Mosse is truly tripe. Because I'd heard her on Radio 4 I'd assumed she was q. highbrow.

Having just plodded through Labyrinth, well. Oh dear.

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janeite · 04/08/2009 18:06

Flying.

That's the situation I was in last year and ended up reading some real tripe (hands up Kate Mosse).

Dd1 is taking a Sophie Kinsella and Bridget Jones, so I may be reduced to those as well.

Oh I've remembered another one too - a history of food and cooking, which is pretty hefty.

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YouLukaAmazing · 04/08/2009 18:05

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BecauseImWorthIt · 04/08/2009 18:03

How are you travelling out/home? For me, that's the killer. If you're flying that's a book per flight, which would leave you only 7. And Animal Farm is only a slim book, so that will be devoured all too quickly.

Personally I would look to add a couple more.

Or is your DH/DP taking any books that you could snaffle?

I made this mistake one year, and was therefore delighted to discover a stash of books in the villa, left by previous visitors. However, delight soon turned to dismay when I realise they were all books about poor, down trodden women from Liverpool in WW2. It was still better than having nothing to read though!

mumblechum · 04/08/2009 18:03

Oooh I love Wilkie Collins. Hope you go somewhere foggy and gloomy to read those ones (kidding).

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