A couple of good reads
I love my summer holidays. I decided not to bother even looking for a job this year, on the basis that I don't think I could cope with trying to make preparations to go away in September and work (I'm anxious at the best of times. I spent my first year and a half of uni trying to be easy-going and friendly, but it just didn't work, so I reverted back to anxious and cynical and sarcastic, and felt much better for it). So, anyways, I now have plenty of time to read for pleasure.
- 'A Long Way Down' by Nick Hornby. NH is possibly my favourite author. You could zip through this in about a day if you wanted to. I'd read it before, but it's always nice to reread, right?
- 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' by Kate Atkinson. Another re-read, a charity shop buy. Actually drew a tear near the end.
- 'The News Where You Are' by Catherine O'Flynn. Didn't much like this one. The style just felt slightly amateur and the plotline took too long to develop to the wrong conclusion - a totally unexpected throw-in at the end.
- 'A French Life' by Jean-Paul Dubois. Fiction, but so detailed it might as well have been an autobiography. It wasn't much of a read, to be honest.
Also: does anybody have any good book recommendations for me? Read anything fun lately?