holiday reading
Finally, a decent holiday! Time for some reading at the beach. And between us Becky and I are well tooled up:
- all four of Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart books;
- Jung Chang’s apparently controversial biography of Mao;
- China Mieville’s new novel Un-Lun-Dun;
- Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism; and
- Elizabeth Knox’s Dreamhunter and Dreamquake.
Somehow I don’t think, even with two and a half weeks, I’m going to get through them all. I do have at least one other claim on my spare time while away.
Funny how all of these books, apart from the non-fiction ones, are YA. How did that happen?
Sarah
6 April 2007, 16:18 #
In my experience of Dreamquake it doesn’t pay to read it at the same time as anything non-YA, because it comes across as a bit self-indulgent and I-think-I’m cleverer-than-I-really-am-ish in comparison to more mature works.
It would probably wash down quite well with some cheap Easter eggs from The Warehouse though.
Alan
8 April 2007, 15:45 #
I think the same could be said of most of Elizabeth Knox’s other output…