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All in WHAT I'M READING
On my return from Europe a few weeks back, I was faced with one of life’s frequent and most difficult questions – what to read next? I had several contenders on my shelf ready to go, but instead I chose to nurse my post-holiday blues and selected Bill Bryson’s Notes From A Small Island.
I don’t usually read memoirs – my preference is definitely fiction, and when I do read non-fiction it’s usually in the self-help area, such as Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic or Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly. However when I saw all the great reviews start to emerge about My Life On The Road, I knew that this was a book I had to add to my list.
At the moment The Graveyard Book is the best Neil Gaiman novel I have read (I’ve only started on Neverwhere so will see if this changes!). In his usual style the book is a children’s book and yet it is not – it is simply a wonderful, well-told fantasy adventure about a boy who grows up in a graveyard.
Poetry is often polarising. People either love it, or they think they don’t ‘get’ it, so they don’t go near it. I used to be the latter. But then I studied a beginners poetry unit as part of my writing course last year, and it took only one poem to change that.
Last summer I wandered into Antipodes, a cute bookstore in Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula. They had a lovely collection of books, but what caught my eye were the several large-format hard cover editions of classics, such as Brothers Grimm fairytales, Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes stories, and Pride & Prejudice.
