My Vacation Reading
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, 07-21-2015 at 02:39 PM (2221 Views)
I will be heading off on vacation soon leaving the first week in August to go to Lake Tahoe. I belong to several different book groups on Goodreads, and so usually I am always reading this or that book for one of my groups, which I enjoy because it provides a good opportunity both to get motivated to read some books I have had sitting around on my shelf but always put off reading for another time, or daunting books that I want to read but because of their length I always postpone, as well as a way to be introduced to books I previously never heard of before.
But in August I take a hiatus from Goodreads, and put together a selection of books which I want to take with me to read while I am on vacation. Of course I usually always end up taking way more books than I actually need but better to have too many books than not enough, if there is such a thing as too many books. No one has been able to convince me of that yet.
So my vacation reading this year:
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat - When I was a kid I saw the movie they made from this book and I loved it. A book about survival in nature seems like an appropriate book to read while I will be up in the mountains.
Jaws by Peter Benchley - I admit that Jaws is one of my all time favorite movies and I figure this book would be a good summer read. And while I won't be at the ocean but at a lake instead, still seems a good book to read while sitting on the beach.
Pan by Knut Hamsun - I have heard good things about Hamsun, and when I first saw this book I was intrigued by the title and it seems like a fitting book to read while I reconnect with nature.
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk - I am a fan of Palahniuk and I find his books to be easy fast reads for me, because they are so compelling. I love his dark humor.
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games I had to read in this course I took on Children's Literature when I was still in school. I enjoyed the book well enough, I do like Dystopia fiction but I didn't feel that compelled to read the other books, but I got into watching the movies, and I thought the movie was really quite good and made me want want to continue to read the books.
Wilderness Tips by Margret Atwood - I don't have much of an explanation for this one, but I am an Atwood fan and the title at least fits in with the nature like theme that I unintentionally ended up with.