Took about 40 pages to get in to and one bit made me cry. A bit too esoteric to be a really good book.
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Fabulous. So meticulously written, it took him 5 years to write and it shows (in a good way!) and absolutely engaging.
The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
A nice diversion - Reverte writes intelligent whodunnits, this on is a riff on The Three Musketeers. Makes me want to read the original.
Hi Hayley, I'm very impressed you've read three books in amongst all that excitement! Hope you get back to Phnom Pehn and enjoy it :) Your post about the mountain made me feel a little exhausted! Goodonya though and I'm still jealous! take care xx
ReplyDeleteHeya Hayley, Ian of ex-MV-ness here! (I'll explain the username over Guinness one night, long story... Or rather, short story, and kinda dumb. But alcohol helps.)
ReplyDeleteHas been great reading about your travels; been meaning to send a comment/hello and am similarly impressed that you've read so much whilst away.
Speaking of which, on the book front for 2010 I've kicked off with the good (the new Iain Banks - Transition - best thing he's done in a while, IMHO) but just to drag it back down to earth, once I've finished that I'm going to ruin any last shred of lit-cred by reading a biography of Van Halen that I couldn't stop myself picking up at St Kilda library last week. I'm a bad man... Or at least, an inconsistent one, where matters of book taste are concerned. ;-)
Anyway, loving the bloggage, though bummed you didn't get to the killing caves; damn local kids and their misdirection! And they should get the hell off my lawn. And I'm not giving their ball back, either...
So yes. Anyway, should keep this shortish to not waste your limited online time whilst away, but colour me jealous (a particularly unfetching shade of green) at your adventures so far!
Happy trails and talk soon! Ian x