Bob and I are heading off on a week-long vacation to West Ireland next Saturday. Every time I think about it lately I feel tempted to flail my arms Kermit-fashion and run around going “Eeeeeeee!”
We’ve got our flights and lodging and car rental all set. I’ve been poring over travel guides and making lists of lovely words like “Poulnabrone, Kilfenora, Mullaghmore, Glenteenassig.” We’ve bribed my parents to house-sit with the promise of vivid fall colors and a cute dog who will need someone to rub his belly while we’re away. I’ve been doing visualization exercises to get ready for driving on the other side of the road (eep).
Yet one important trip preparation remains undone… The travel reading materials. One day I will have an eReader and this all will become moot, but for now I am doing things the old fashioned way.
The current choices:
I’m thinking I better trim it down a bit!
What would you bring? Feel free to suggest alternates if they are available in paperback and I could reasonably obtain them within a week!
Tags: reading, travel
so much fun to stare at other peoples piles! Crown Duel and The Name of the Wind are both good travel books–engrossing without being Too Much…Conrad's Fate is good, but not my favorite DWJ, Dragon Slippers might be too quick a read to be worth shlepping, and Sapphique is very dense indeed, and I wasn't able to finish it….
I hope you have a lovely time!
Thanks, Charlotte! Yes, TNOTW and CD are both getting a lot of love from the commenters on my livejournal xpost of this, so I think they are winners!