Snow!!!
You see . . .
Life is London is action-packed, fast-paced and generally insane every minute. I am rarely home, I dash from one thing to the next and I spend my working days bored out of my mind because I’ve discovered I’m way more ambitious than I ever thought I was. While keeping occupied and busy is always good, sometimes it’s equally good to stop for a while and do less all-over-the-place stuff so I am reading and watching tv and movies and generally trying to relax. Catching up on sleep is also the plan.
I read voraciously and am currently working on (yes I really have started all of these books in the last week):
Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs (think a book of the tv show Bones)
The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier (Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it - I enjoy reading Paul Collier’s work having got into it quite a bit during Masters so this is quite interesting)
Pillow Talk - Freya North (my guilty pleasure is chick-lit)
Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka (by the woman who bought you A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian)
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything - think econ 101 but really easy to read)
Down Under - Bill Bryson (originally an American who moved to the UK for years and years and then back to America and who can write so well explores australia and then writes a book about it - carnage)
I have recently finished reading:
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner - Thousand Splendid Suns is my current fav book, incredibly well-written and a story that draws you into lives that are so very sad)
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies (World War II and Wales has POW camps, tells three connected stories from different viewpoints in a good way but doesn’t end that well at all)
The Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo (brilliant little book that tells the story of a new Chinese student in London and her relationship with an older English guy)
Now I look at this list - which is basically the books I’ve been reading in the last two to three weeks, I am a little worried that I may have too much time. It’s just that I love books and I love reading in my lunchbreak, before sleeping, when I’m travelling and any moment when there’s not something else happening. Anyway . . .
The point of all of that was that I was wondering whether readers, if I still have any, would be interested in getting short little reviews of the books I read. I’m happy to blog reviews on a reasonably regular basis if there’s any interest - if you’re keen then post me a comment and I’ll start with A Thousand Splendid Suns. To be honest I may start reviewing anyway but it would be nicer if someone actually wanted me to.
So that’s how I’m spending my Easter. I’m missing my family but I’m enjoying relxing and resting and taking time for myself to read and watch tv and watch the snow fall past my window.
