holiday indulgence
Written on 15 December 2004 | Posted in reading/listening | 7 Comments
Starting a week to-morrow, I’m off for 12 days. I have three vacation days left to take before the end of the year, and those, coupled with nine days of Reference downtime (i.e.: the library is open but Reference is closed), add up to just short of a fortnight of time off. And I can say, with some certainty, that I have never been more ready for time off. Plans are afoot to spend lots of time with family, bake cookies, play board games & cards, eat copiously, and read indulgently. My reading list includes Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism, The Golden Compass, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, A Complicated Kindness, and A Million Little Pieces. I’m practically teetering over from heady anticipation!
What’s on your holiday reading list?
Love the His Dark Materials series and the Griffin and Sabine trilogy.
My reading list includes Cryptonomicon, The Professor and the Madman, and An Artist of the Floating World.
Wow– your library can remain open without an active reference staff? Around this time of year, what with paper writing and all, that would be the kiss of death where I had worked!
15 December 2004 @ 10:13
uuf! 12 days?!! that’s a beautifully looong stretch of time!
you’ll love the golden compass – it was my favorite of the trilogy, though the others were quite good, too.
on my reading list is a ton of ya, including nancy farmer’s ‘house of the scorpion’, ‘ the witch of blackbird pond’, donna jo napoli’s ‘magic circle’ (i love her books), as well as more adult-y books like philippa gregory’s ‘the queen’s fool’ and audrey niffenegger’s ‘the time traveler’s wife’..
and for christmas, i’m hoping for susanna clarke’s ‘dr. strange & mr. norrell’ – have heard great things about it.
any way you look at it, wayyy too ambitious – but that’s half the fun of making reading lists, isn’t it?
15 December 2004 @ 12:09
Yoko — kiss of death here too! At least while students are still around! Ref gets to close between Christmas and new years though, since it’s pretty well a ghost town around here.
and Andrea — ambitious reading lists are the ONLY way to go! Hope you get to The Time Traveler’s Wife — it’s such an absorbing read, you’re going to love it.
15 December 2004 @ 12:16
How lovely to have a fortnight off! Your plans sound quite enviable! I have three days off and plan only to read The Da Vinci Code. I’ve heard so very much about it that it feels like I ought to read it now before all the commentary spoils it for me.
Have a wonderful holiday break
15 December 2004 @ 12:29
A Complicated Kindness is on my list too! as well as Nice Girls don’t get the corner office and Bella Tuscany.
15 December 2004 @ 16:17
I have Oryx and Crake on my holiday reading list. I’ll be lucky if I get through one book (even with 8 days off!)
Happy reading
17 December 2004 @ 11:28
where do you people find time to read over the holidays??!! i’m jealous!
20 December 2004 @ 11:52