Monthly Archives: August 2015

Please, no more!

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I am, to put it mildly, fucking stuffed (I feel I can use “fucking” now, having read Holy Sh*t – see a previous post – without being overly worried).

I feel like this in the morning when I wake up, when I get dressed, when we get to the beach, when we have our “breakfast” (a small cannellone and coffee), all the time we’re on the beach, when we go home and, especially when we go out – which is every evening except one.

It’s a food fest. As normal. But this year I seem to feel it worse.

So, I sit here, writing this feeling like I’ve just had a 5-course dinner.

Plus, my belly seems to be growing daily and that’s NOT good :'(

And it’s getting harder to fit everything in! Now, we’re already booking into next week!

I think, when I get Home, I won’t have to eat for a month!!

Stone Mattress

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After finishing Holy Sh*t yesterday I treated myself to the Margaret Atwood book I got last year.

Holy Sh*t was really interesting. Detailing swearing from Roman times to the present day (English – US and UK) but this wasn’t a ¡novel, of course, being more of a history book. Great fun though and I learnt a lot.

But on to Margaret Atwood. There’s something about her writing. I feel that I could just read only her work, forever, if only she would write more – much, much more.

This was a collection of 9 short “tales”, each one different in almost every sense except one – they were about old people, more or less.

I’ve always liked “old people” things. Drawings, paintings, films, etc. The older the people, the better. And so, this was a wonderful book with wonderful tales.

This year I didn’t bring The Blind Assassin, my favourite book of all time – and now I wish I had.

Instead, I’ve started Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs – another book I think I’ve read before. Another one I probably didn’t put in the “books I’ve read” cupboard. *sigh*

No Special Book Yet

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The Various Haunts Of Men (Susan Hill) was from last year – but I can’t stop reading a book once it’s started. It took me a little over 2 days.

Next up was So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson. A good book to do with our current desire to humiliate And shame people through Social Media.

And On to Holy Sh*t by Melissa Mohr – a study on the history of swearing (therefore of particular interest to me since I swear a lot). More Importantly, it seems I’m back to my usual pace which makes me much happier.

Still no spectacular book yet…….

Citadel – Kate Mosse And slow reading

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Well, I finished it but not at my normal rate. Sure, it was a thicker book than most but also because a) Best Mate is here and b) the book didn’t race along until about halfway through and, then again, towards the end.

Anyway, it was quite good but I doubt if it will be the number 1 book of the summer for me.

Now I’m on to The Various Haunts Of Men by Susan Hill who, I’ve discovered, comes from my neck of the woods. Except, I think, I read this last summer!