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In which Rosa, a Yorkshire-born-and-Yorkshire-bred English Literature undergraduate at the University of St Andrews in Scotland with an unhealthy book obsession and a penchant for all things literary, reads...

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Right kids, I’m travelling for the rest of the summer, and I need some advice. I’m going via Hull to Rotterdam/Northern Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Norway, then working at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, then I have a few days in Cornwall. So, I’m going to need a good solid lot of reading material. When I’m in Denmark and Sweden I’ll be with my family, so I’m sharing some books by Swedish authors with my mother (I inherited the whole ‘theme your reading whilst you travel’ thing from her). And I’m certainly bringing Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse with me to Cornwall. But aside from that, I want your opinions! So, this is the selection - I can probably fit about five of them into my bags. Tell me which five! IQ84 (Books I and II) - Haruki Murakami Out of Africa - Karen Blixen (or Isak Dinesen) When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman The Informers - Brett Easton Ellis The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson Washington Square - Henry James The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys There is No Dog - Meg Rosoff The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy (poetry) So, what would you have me read?

Right kids, I’m travelling for the rest of the summer, and I need some advice. I’m going via Hull to Rotterdam/Northern Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Norway, then working at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, then I have a few days in Cornwall.

So, I’m going to need a good solid lot of reading material. When I’m in Denmark and Sweden I’ll be with my family, so I’m sharing some books by Swedish authors with my mother (I inherited the whole ‘theme your reading whilst you travel’ thing from her). And I’m certainly bringing Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse with me to Cornwall. But aside from that, I want your opinions!

So, this is the selection - I can probably fit about five of them into my bags. Tell me which five!

  • IQ84 (Books I and II) - Haruki Murakami
  • Out of Africa - Karen Blixen (or Isak Dinesen)
  • When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
  • The Informers - Brett Easton Ellis
  • The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
  • Washington Square - Henry James
  • The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
  • Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
  • There is No Dog - Meg Rosoff
  • The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy (poetry)

So, what would you have me read?

6 notes:

  1. thecatwhisperer answered: twilight
  2. emmadelosnardos answered: out of africa, wide sargasso sea, washington square, murakami
  3. othernotebooksareavailable answered: Wide Sargasso Sea is wonderful, especially if you’ve read Jane Eyre.
  4. thewrittenescape reblogged this from rosareads
  5. thepointofitall answered: out of africa and the murakami, and i haven’t read that particular one but banks is always excellent, so
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