A holiday book list has been requested...
What book(s) would be good to take to Canada this summer?
The five Millers are going to take a book each and rotate!
Guidelines!
1) Can be fiction or non-fiction
2) Not too 'heavy' or technical
3) Of interest to 15yr old (and 57yr old!)
4) Easy to dip in and out of if necessary (but page-turner also good)
Ideas so far:
new Harry Potter
?Tony Parsons - Man and Boy
(not many, clearly!)
"..but whoever drinks this water will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:14
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1 comments:
I have been hearing good things about a book called "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson. I very rarely pick up novels and only read one or two a year but my curiosity has been aroused by this one and it is on my list to get round to.
As well as that I always find it pretty stimulating to actually read travel literature while I am travelling. It doubles the escapism of the overall experience!
Finally I guess I would recommend some classic yarns of the most wholesome sort as perfect holiday reading for all ages. If you have not yet read "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville then you MUST start there. Chase that down with "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" by Jack London followed by anything else from the same stable including Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" (of course) and Kipling's "Kim".
These are all very cheap to buy and should have been read between the ages of 11 and 15 by all of us. If we missed out then it is not too late to enjoy them and if we didn't then why not re-visit them?
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