So you packed your bags...

Reading this entry on Bookworld we feel very identified with the woes of going through the process of choosing a holiday read. If you've been through it, you'll know it's not easy!

I'm in despair. There's hardly any room for books. So I've tried to be very disciplined and after hours of agonising indecision have whittled it down to Jane Eyre, Hawksmoor and King Hereafter. This is an unusual selection for me: the first two are re-reads and I would normally take new books on holiday. However, I have been pining to re-read Charlotte Bronte for so long that I can no longer put it off. Villette came a close second and Dickens's David Copperfield third.

We are in despair too, because everyday a new book suggests itself as the perfect holiday read. And of course it has to be a compact kind of book because us bookaholics will manage to purchase a good many books more wherever we go.

But if you're still looking for a holiday, here's a new book: Tombstoning. Not related to the Brontës in actual content but this is what the author Doug Johnstone says about it:

"I wanted it to be a relationship story, not necessarily a romance because that makes people think of moors and Heathcliff and stuff. But a realistic modern romance, between two people who weren't idiots."

Is he calling Heathcliff and Cathy idiots? That's what we call treading on thin ice - from what we know we don't think Heathcliff is the kind of guy to let these kind of things slip unnoticed :P

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