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I left my old job at the end of last month and start my new job at the beginning of April so, lucky me, I have all of March off – I am putting it to good use! I’m on vacation right now, enjoying the warmth and sunshine of southern California. Sadly, not all of these library books were able to come on holiday with me (my suitcase is only so large and my hiking boots won out over more books) but I know I have them to look forward to when I get home!
The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg
Cairo in the War by Artemis Cooper
Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively
Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively
The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam
The Young Ardizzone by Edward Ardizzone
What did you pick up this week?
Hope you are having a fab holiday. The idea of having a month off does sound amazing!
Thanks, Marg! I worked the last six months without a break so it’s really a treat to have this much time off now.
The Past is Myself is on my memoirs and bios shelves. Amazing events.
Isn’t it great? I’ve read it a few times but it’s been a couple of years since my last reread.
Enjoy your time off. Enjoy all those great books.
Thanks, Linda!
Enjoy your time off and congrats on the new job. I’m liking the looks of Penelope Lively’s book a lot. I hope you end up liking all your reads.
I was able to read Oleander, Jacaranda before I left town and can’t wait to read Dancing Fish and Ammonites when I get back. Lively is so great.
Isn’t this part of the world glorious right now? I’m enjoying every single minute before it gets too hot to live.
I saw The Past is Myself reviewed on EmilyBooks this week and it sounds wonderful. I wish my library had it, but no such luck.
Today I checked out 1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies.
Enjoy your vacation!
The Past is Myself is wonderful, so I hope you’re able to track down a copy (through ILL, maybe?). I’ve heard good things about Illies’ book!
I’d always much rather have a book in my hands, but hiking boots or books? Sounds like one of those times when an e-reader might just have come in handy? Have a very happy break!
My Kobo definitely came with me – I’d never be able to make it through two weeks of holiday with only the five hard copy books I managed to fit in my luggage!
The Past is Myself is excellent. Have you read Marie Vassiltchikov’s Berlin Diaries? They knew one another; both were outsiders in Nazi Germany. On another note, why oh why does my library not have a copy of Penelope Lively’s book? I’m looking forward to hearing what you think of it (the book, not my library!).
I read excerpts from Berlin Diaries for a university course I was doing on wartime Germany but I’ve never read the book in its entirety. And I hope your library gets a copy of the Lively book soon!
The memoirs look delicious. I had a holiday in California a few weeks ago and it was wonderful.
Don’t they? I am really regretting not being able to bring them all along with me on holiday.
A vacation with these great books sounds heavenly. I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks!
Jane Gardam is prolific. It seems like every time I turn around I see new (to me) titles by her.
She’s certainly been busy. I’m working through her book so fast though that right now I feel like she hasn’t written enough!
That is a fabulous selection of books. What made you pick up Cairo in the War (one of my favourite books, by the way)?