Holiday Reading

My relaxaholiday is only one week away. I’ll be sunning myself for almost seven days in Gran Canaria and this is the holiday where we plan to do not much at all. This is the biggest period of free time I’ll have for the rest of the year so I plan to do plenty of reading in our private sun loungers by the massive shared pool. I think I’ve narrowed my reading choices down to the small groupbelow, then I’ll pick a final three (or possibly four if I have last minute worries about running out of books):

Broke Heart Blues – Joyce Carol Oates
The Other Side of the Bridge – Mary Lawson
Slam – Nick Hornby
The Presidents Daughter – Ellen Emerson White
Empresses of the World – Sarah Ryan
Dedication – Emma Mclaughlin, Nicola Krauss

Look, they’re almost all challenge reads! I need to take a mix of adult and young adult books because while young adult books seem like the perfect books to take on holiday I can read an average size young adult book in a day, if I’m left uninterrupted. I debated borrowing my friends copy of New Moon but then I realised it might get thrown in the pool (and as she’s going on holiday with me I don’t think she’d like to see that).

I’ve learnt my lesson from previous holiday reading selections. This year I will not take books that I think I should be reading for my own good. I will not take books that I have lukewarm feelings about starting, just because I will have a lot of time to finally read them. I will not rely on the other person going on holiday taking books I want to read. I will not take a magazine because I know that despite the shiny, glossiness it will bore me.

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to a whole week away in the sunshine. I can almost feel myself recharging already.

I’d love to know when your next holiday is and where you’re going – feel free to gloat about far flung destinations in the comments. What books are you taking?