Books!

[seventhe]

I am planning on writing up a workout post, and I probably will this afternoon, but I want to get this particular post out there before I forget:

I am going on a long trip soon.
I would like some book recs, things that I can pick up at the library this weekend.
Although I'm not going to say "no" to SRS LITRATUR, I will be perfectly happy with a list of "brain candy" books - fun to read, possibly literarily worthless, but enjoyable and interesting and perhaps a little brain-numbing (as I may or may not be drunk while reading them).

So! Please smother me with book recs, people. Give me your top-three "Beach Vacation Book Recommendations".

It's like a meme! Only cooler.

Comments

[aesriella.livejournal.com]

In terms ooof light + engaging, I'd read the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (first one is..Amulet of Samarkand, I think?)because, hell, I don't care that they're "children's" books if adult literature was this well written I'd be screaming with joy.

If you're at all interested in journalism or just LIFE for a slightly more serious tack I really recommend Kate Adie, especially her autobiography "The Kindness of Strangers". Austen's Emma, though LITTERATCHUR is actually really light and fun if you like that sort of thing.

Uhh,,,Travelling Light (Naomi Mitchison), if you want a play Wilde's An Ideal Husband or The Importance of Being Earnest..

Oh, and if you can GET it over there, "Millions" (Frank Cottrell Boyce) is another really light, really fun read.

TT Can you tell that this is all the stuff I'd be reading if I wasn't drwning in Coleridge XD?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Excellent! These are all books I haven't had suggested before; I'm quite excited. XD

[aesriella.livejournal.com]

^^ My reading is so utterly eclectic it isn't even funny. I'm one of those "THIS PORN HAS INCORRECT USE OF PREPOSITIONS" types XD.

Hope you get a kick out of any and all of these bks ^^. Enjoy yer trip.