Good afternoon! I’m sorry for the lack of posts in the last couple of weeks, but I have been on vacation. It was a very relaxing vacation spent visiting family and I got to read a whole bunch, which was excellent. With being on holiday, I added so much to my library. I was really in the mood for a quirky contemporary romance, so I added Rainbow Rowell’s Landline to my collection and read and finished it straight away. It was an excellent choice and I devoured it straight up. I loved the main character, Georgie McCool – what an awesome name! – and adored how her relationship with her husband was explored in both past and present. Definitely worth picking up. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard has been promoted very heavily recently, and I gave in and bought it. I ended up really enjoying it and will write a full review soon. Despite not being blown over by Bloodlines by Richelle Mead, I was really in the mood for that kind of book and after leafing through Golden Lily in a bookstore I picked it up in Kindle format. I did enjoy it more than the first book in…
Tomorrow I leave for a week’s vacation, including two long coach trips. More difficult than deciding what clothes to pack is deciding what books and audiobooks to download to my Kindle Fire for the trip. I only have 16GB on my Fire – next time I will go for 32GB at least! – and I’m not certain what internet access I will have during my trip. So I need to decide what books I’m likely to want to read/listen to over the next week. The first book I have chosen is, of course, Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Assassin. Having reread much of the Realm of the Elderlings series, I’m anxious to know what she has in store next for Fitz and the Fool. That’s the one I intend to start as soon as I board the coach. Before embarking on my reread of Robin Hobb’s works, I’d been listening to Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl. I will certainly continue that this trip if I get the chance. Continuing my cutesey romance change of scene from epic fantasy, I have also downloaded Stephanie Perkins’ Anna and the French Kiss. It’s supposed to be excellent and I look forward to that one. On August 26th…