travel reading

[bertine]

i leave for england in two days and i need something to read. i don't want to read anything that is heavy or anything at all that relates to computers. suggestions?

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

You could put ebooks on a PDA. Or is that too computery?

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Oh, haha... when you mean heavy, you mean deep & pensive.

I thought you meant physically heavy :)

[bertine.livejournal.com]

LOL ♥

yeah, i don't want to have to think TOO much. plus a heavy (physically) would be annoying too.

Some light reading

[greatestofnates.livejournal.com]

http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Balloon-Animals-Angela/dp/0439680247/

[rachel-bartlett.livejournal.com]

Nick Hornby! Fever Pitch, or About A Boy, or High Fidelity.
No computers, not heavy, but not stupid eihter, sightly funny, and British.

[remembering.livejournal.com]

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri was pretty good.
It's a collection of short stories about people from or in India.

I can't think of anything else at the moment.
I'm not sure what a good travel book would be since I never go anywhere.
I have the same question though because Jay and I are going to Europe in 2 months and I have no idea if I'll even need a book (maybe at least for the plane ride?).

[ctakahara.livejournal.com]

Nick Sagan's Idlewild trilogy: Idlewild, Edenborn, and Everfree.

[woodoo24.livejournal.com]

Have you read "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger? Excellent book. And if you really wanna go light you can get the audio book through iTunes.

"Anansi Boys" by Neil Gailman was another pretty decent book.

I'll have to admit I listened to both of them on my iPod instead of actually reading them. I like good stories and I like to listen to good story tellers. Both books had very good Narrators. I would have never gotten the accents or voices right in my own head if I had read either of these books. Audiobooks just work well for me with all the traveling.

[woodoo24.livejournal.com]

p.s. Are you going to see the fabulous Ms. murun whilst in the U.K.? Say hello for me if you do. I'm in Belgium this week. I really should just swim that channel myself one weekend. I've never been to England.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

yup! on friday her and i are going to hang out! she is going to take a ton of pictures.

email me if you decide to meet us. :D

[woodoo24.livejournal.com]

Now wouldn't that be fun! I will try to get all my work done early this week and see if I can make it over on Friday. London?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

yup. i just emailed my phone number, i'll have my cell phone with me so feel free to call, though i might be short on the phone cause of the expense. ha!

[murun.livejournal.com]

YAAAY try and come!

[woodoo24.livejournal.com]

:) I will try...it might be Friday evening. How long will you be in London?

[murun.livejournal.com]

Will your phone work over here? Where we gonna meet?

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

PG Wodehouse is very light and fun to read, as is anything by Stephen Fry. I also enjoy A Secret History by Donna Tartt, but my favorite book at the moment is The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. (With the exception of Donna Tartt, can you see a pattern?)

Jeeves and Wooster books and books written by the actors who play Jeeves and Wooster. In case you missed the pattern. Heh.

[emkachan.livejournal.com]

Home: The Short History of an Idea by Witold Rcybzinski

Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by Louis Rennison

The Once and Future King by T.H. White (but you've already read it)