My first order of business is to apologize for the brevity and lack of visual interest for this post, but I am on the Jersey shore, and typing on an iPhone. The second is to say I have been reading a lot, since that’s what you do vacation (or any spare moments, actually). I am currently relishing every minute of former Risky interviewee Tessa Dare’s Goddess Of The Hunt. Wow. It is amazingly delicious, and the characters are so real. While on the beach, I have noticed nearly everyone–including adults–reading Stephenie Meyer. Some of the male holdouts are still reading Patterson et al. But they’re reading, and that’s cool. We have only a few more days here, so I’ll scoot, but ask before I go: what is the book you associate with your best holiday? Mine would be Pamela by Samuel Richardson, which I read on my honeymoon.
You read “Pamela” ON YOUR HONEYMOON? That is beyond weird.
I read Zelda, a biography of Zelda Fitzgerald on my honeymoon…
I love to read on the beach! For years I loved it, because in the sunshine I didn’t even need reading glasses. I suspect those days are over, but I haven’t tried it.
Janet took my post, Word for word.
What possessed you, Megan, to read Pamela on your honeymoon?
I read The Pillars of the Earth in the couple of weeks between my college graduation, my wedding, and starting my first ‘real’ job.
Happy vacation! Say hi to the Barnegut Bay Lighthouse for me. I have fond childhood memories of the Shore and also have a Barnegut Bay Lighthouse magnet on my fridge.
No reading took place on my honeymoon. Sorry.
No reading on my honeymoon either. Except maybe the placards on the exhibits at the World’s Fair in Knoxville. My late DH and I went to Gatlinburg on our honeymoon and went to the World’s Fair in Knoxville.
I read The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner on a Transatlantic flight to England one summer.
I read all of Georgette Heyer my first summer in England when I was nine years old. It really was an idyllic sort of summer that year. I took care of and exercised the two lovely old ladies next door’s horses. Then I would borrow a Heyer novel from their library and sit out in their lovely flower garden on a lovely wicker chaise and read until my Mom called me to supper. Sometimes the ladies would join me, especially at tea time and we would have our tea outdoors and talk about what I’d read. It really is one of my very favorite life memories.
Janet Chapman’s first 3 or 4 Highlander books. I found the last one the week before we left. We were headed to spend a week in the part of Maine where the stories take place. I read all of the books to my husband on the trip. He enjoyed them. He finally caught on that I was skipping parts. Sorry, even after 30+ years of marriage, he is going to have to read the juicy parts himself.
Another time, I read GRITS: Girls Raised In The South to him on a trip to Florida to visit family. If you haven’t read this book, you need to. It is wonderfully funny. You don’t have to be a southerner to appreciate it. This Yankee did.
Well, I’m not one who goes to the beach so no actual beach reading for me. LOL But if I did, I’d just take what I was reading around that day. So maybe a romance, or perhaps I’ll be the odd one out with my science book. 😉
Though I can’t imagine reading on a honeymoon. . . at all. . . LOL 🙂
Lois
Pamela?? LOL!
Strangely enough, I have fondness for a bio of Bess of Hardwick I read on a Hawaii vacation a few years ago. (weird beach read, I know, but it was very enjoyable!)
OK, I’ll ask:
What’s ‘Pamela’ about and why would this be an odd choice for a honeymoon?
P.S. My capcha word is ‘foonhype’. I think that sounds like something that should be in one of your books. A type of garment? Music? Eating utensil?
To answer the question, I had a full week of beach time, nothing else to do, except for drink and sun-bathe, and I loved richardson’s Clarissa, so I was stoked about tackling this 900+ page behemoth. And, I thought, it was really good. I wasn’t officially reading romance at the time–except I was, because most books are romance, and it felt indulgent to read at the time.
I’ve released the beginning of my update of Northanger Abbey to my blog http://www.janeaustenregrets.blogspot.com
I know it’s a work in progress and there are some issues, but I’d love to know what you think and if you want to read more.