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I'm off on my holidays tomorrow for ten days. This is a city trip (London, then Paris), so it's not exactly a reading week (that's for Greece, later on in the year), but it's still worth a bit of planning. I'm NOT taking any cheesy Paris books with me. I am taking some Dan Brown rubbish to read on the plane, Barry Unsworth's Losing Nelson, Darren King's Jim Giraffe, and at least one other. What would you take on a city break? Have I enough books with me? Should I bring that Jonathan Lethem or is it just too big? Decisions, decisions.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, we should have an inaugural London ILB FAP!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

You should read this book, btw: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0789310635.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

She'll be knocking on our houses, "you finished that book yet?"

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

well, 10 days are quite enough at least for a quick Balzac (La peau de chagrin?) while in Paris, to read when you collapse on the first orizontal surface you find to recover after a couple of rooms at the Louvre.
I wouldn't know what I would take with me in London, but my usual Dickens, of course.

enjoy your holiday!!!

― misshajim (strand), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Nipper's right, we really should.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

We're going to the Philippines on May 18th for ten days. I have already packed "Running with Scissors" and "The Ladies Auxiliary" by Tova Miris ("Running" is by Augustin Burroughs). Anybody read "Ladies"? I plan to laugh my way across for Pacific ocean for 21 hours!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, this is one of those "nice to read" books and nothingelse but
still ... if we are talking about Paris then Paul Gallico's
"Flowers for Mrs. Harris"

― yesimd (yesim), Friday, 7 May 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Paris: "Life a User's Manual" by Georges Perec.

― jordache, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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