Your Holiday Books
It's coming up to that time of year when people will start packing their bags and leaving on jet planes all over the place, and if there's anyone else anyone like me then the most important thing in the run-up to a holiday is the meticulous planning of which books to take. I've been saving certain books for months in preparation for the double holiday I'm starting on Friday. Partly because looking forward to chilling out and reading on this holiday has been what has kept me going through many hours of revision. Does anyone else plan holiday reading? Do you tend to take light and easy to read books or heavier things? I like to take a mixture of genres and of fiction and non-fiction. So, what's your holiday reading list this year? As it stands this is mine... Two weeks in France Katie Fforde - Wedding Season Jill Mansell - An Offer You Can't Refuse Tracy Chevalier - Burning Bright Elizabeth Chadwick - The Grea-*test*-('") Knight M.M. Kaye - The Far Pavillions Jean M Auel - The Plains of Passage Susan Howatch - Scandalous Risks Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities Johnathon Kaplan - The Dressing Station Tony Hawks - A Piano in the Pyrenees Trudi Canavan - Priestess of the White Two weeks in Cornwall Jean M Auel - The Shelters of Stone Sharon Penman - The Reckoning Peter Robinson - In A Dry Season Susan Howatch - Mystical Paths Sebastian Faulks - Engleby Kate Morton - The House at Riverton I haven't finished the list for Cornwall, but my boyfriend is bringing books that I can steal and so is my ex-housemate. I'm going to the library and charity bookshop tomorrow to get another 4 or 5 to take to Cornwall, I'm expecting to be busier there aswell so I shouldn't need as many. I really hope someone else plans books like this, and I don't appear crazy at this point.

i usually plan to take some with me,but not any specific ones just what's lieing around.i like to find a bookshop in wherever i am and buy something random :D i've been given a load of steven king books recently so i figure i'll read one of them,probably Cell

KB not wishing to be rude here but where on earth are you going to find the time to read all of those books? Won't you be doing you know, holiday stuff?

Well, yes, we will be doing stuff, I just read fast. Some of the books I'm taking I could read easily in 4-5 hours, and most days I'll spend the mornings out walking up some mountain or other and the afternoon reading by the pool. Cornwall I probably won't need them all, because we'll be more likely to be out all day, but I always like to have too many rather than too few books. And again, they just don't take me very long to read!

Ha. Okies, fair enough then. :D The only places I'll be going to this year are down to Cardiff to Aura's in over to Cuch in Ireland, can't seen much need for books in either place. :P

I always find anytime I bring a book on holiday I never end up reading it anyway.

I hardly ever take books on holiday, but I quite often buy books when I'm there.

I pretty much don't go anywhere without a book, but I know I'm slightly abnormal in my reading habits! I'm just anti-social really. :P