Exciting news! We’re going on vacation in a few weeks! We’re going to the The Hotel Riu Santa Fe in Cabo and will be blogging and tweeting about our trip. We have our passports, plane tickets, house sitter and swimsuits, and now I’m trying to decide what books to take. I have an ongoing list of books I want to read, but I have some special criteria for my vacation book(s):
- Nothing too serious/sad
- No chick-lit books
- Nothing too big
I would love to read some of the classics I haven’t gotten to, but they’re all relatively short so I’d finish them while waiting to board the plane in Houston and then be stuck lugging them around the rest of the week. (This is why it would be amazing if I were able to rent a Kindle*; I don’t want to buy one but would love to take ten books on this trip without the straps of my carry-on digging into my shoulders.)
Anyway, here are the books that have made my short list. Please let me know of any thoughts you have on these books, and also any other books you’d recommend.
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Ice Princess – Camilla Lackberg
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
- The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
- The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
- Little Bee – Chris Cleave
* Please, someone start an airport business renting Kindles. You’d make so much money! And make me so happy!
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I read The Corrections a few years ago, only because I thought it hilarious that Franzen asked not to be a part of Oprah’s book club. hee! Anyway, hated the book. Definitely too serious for a beach vacation read.
Thanks! I’ll take it off my list, even though I do now have some admiration for Franzen.
I’ve read Little Bee (very sad but there are funny parts too). I also have the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo if you want to borrow it. You can always come over and peruse my library at home!!!
Thanks for the tip on Little Bee. I’ll save it for after the trip. I’ll get back to you on Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Thanks!
Which one did you end up reading?