So, what did you actually read on holiday?

[TheChampers]

Got back early this morning from seven nights in Tenerife and this holiday's reading was :-

First Hunger Games book (historical present a difficult way to write, wonderfully done)

Surface Detail - Iain M Banks; inimitable, brilliant.

Pigs Might Fly - Mark Blake, a very good book charting the history of Pink Floyd

Awful Auntie - David Walliams (not his best but still a fine children's book)

A Thousand Splendid Suns - a coruscating depiction of the events (and the treatment of women) in Afghanistan over a thirty year period seen through the eyes of two women, by Khaled Hosseini; fantastic writing, and a real eye-opener.

What did you read while away?

Edited by TheChampers on Wednesday 29th July 19:27

[dumfriesdave]

'Caught in the crossfire' by Russell Findlay.

True crime book based on Glasgow gangland feud between Lyons and Daniel families, culminating in murder of Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll.
Interesting read.
Chilling around a poolside in Crete, ended up reading it twice!

Like a lot of similar books.

[neenaw]

Do No Harm - Henry Marsh

It's the first book I've sat down and read in about a year through choice due to being busy studying and I'm glad I did. Possibly the best book I've ever read!

[brickwall]

The Secret Race - Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle (I'd been meaning to read it for ages)
How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy - Sir Michael Barber. Not a light read, but a on the compulsory list for a (frustrated) former Whitehall mandarin like myself.

[ikarl]

neenaw said:

Do No Harm - Henry Marsh

It's the first book I've sat down and read in about a year through choice due to being busy studying and I'm glad I did. Possibly the best book I've ever read!

Agreed! Heard him on radio 2 either earlier this year or late last year...downloaded it when I got home and couldn't put it down.

I'm going tonight to pick up a copy of 'to kill a mockingbird'. I've never read it and I go on holiday on Sunday....looking forward to it.

[TheChampers]

ikarl said:

neenaw said:

Do No Harm - Henry Marsh

It's the first book I've sat down and read in about a year through choice due to being busy studying and I'm glad I did. Possibly the best book I've ever read!

Agreed! Heard him on radio 2 either earlier this year or late last year...downloaded it when I got home and couldn't put it down.

I'm going tonight to pick up a copy of 'to kill a mockingbird'. I've never read it and I go on holiday on Sunday....looking forward to it.

I've seen this mentioned a few times on here; thanks, I'll stick this on the "List" I keep for good referrals (I actually had a Consultant last year after a serious health issue which "should" have required surgery say (after deciding against the knife) my first rule is "do no harm") Lucky me

[neenaw]

ikarl said:

Agreed! Heard him on radio 2 either earlier this year or late last year...downloaded it when I got home and couldn't put it down.

I'm going tonight to pick up a copy of 'to kill a mockingbird'. I've never read it and I go on holiday on Sunday....looking forward to it.

He was on Radio 4's Book Club a little while back then a couple of weeks ago he was interviewed on The Life Scientific on Radio 4. Well worth getting the podcast if you can, it was a very good interview.

[marcosgt]

EVO, a bit of National Geographic and a couple of books I had on the go on my Kindle (I forget exactly which they were at the time now, to be honest, which is either not a recommendation or a sign I'm getting forgetful...)

In 'ye-olde-book' format, I'm currently reading "The Goldfinch" and in hardback form that might have required another luggage allowance!

Read a little more on holiday than I do at home, but I rarely just veg on holiday, so I don't get a lot more read...

M.

[Planet Claire]

A month ago now and I'm struggling to remember. I think I took a book with me but can't recall what it was, however, there were some books in the villa and I got through a few of those:

Freeman Wills Crofts - Antidote to Venom.
Victoria Hislop - The Island (read this a number of years ago and what made me travel the length of Crete to go and make the trip over to Spinalonga. Thought I'd re-read it now knowing the area.)
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go.
Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountains Echoed.

[gregd]

Just got back from a couple of weeks away.. Read and enjoyed the following:

RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days (nostalgic and well-written, if a bit plodding.. one for by a winter fireside really)
John Buchan - Sick Heart River (the last of the Edward Leithen stories..well worth getting them on Kindle at a bargain price)
Roger Moore - Last Man Standing (a quick read, some amusing anecdotes)
Matthew Parker - Goldeneye - Where Bond Was Born - Ian Fleming's Jamaica (thoroughly recommended for Bond fans but read Pearson or Lycett's biographies of Fleming first)
William Boyd - Restless (a great book, pick of my holiday reads.. Boyd is rapidly becoming one of my favourite writers)
Robert Aickman - Dark Entries (atmospheric horror short stories in the MR James mould)
Donald Sturrock - Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl (again recommended for fans of Dahl but read his two true-ish autobiographies Boy and Going Solo first)