Every year, up until I was about 30, and living far away from home in the UK, I used to get a book for Christmas. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Isabel Allende. Richard Flanagan. Inside, always inscribed, 'Love from Mum and Dad'. Christmas Day was always curled up on the sofa reading a book. We always did the extended family dinner on Christmas eve, and breakfast with my folks, so the afternoon was always very quiet and lazy. My Dad used to say Christmas Day was the one day in Australia that everyone just stopped. It gave the earth a break, he used to say.
I miss those days.
This year will be our first Christmas without Dad. It'll be worse for Mum, who won't have the distraction of a partner. She's doing okay, considering. She confesses to feeling flat, and she misses Dad terribly. She's doing her best.
My sister and I thought we'd buy her a book each for Christmas, because despite being terrible at gifts, Dad always managed to find a couple of books for Mum to read on Christmas Day.
Me, I'm at the library, stocking up for Tassie, where we head on Boxing Day. I have 'The Three Body Problem', as I loved the first season of the TV adaptation. By Liu Cixin, it's set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, where astrophysicist Ye Wenjie contacts an alien civilization, whose impending invasion divides humanity, with factions either aiding or opposing the extraterrestrials. A good summer read, I think.
I've been enjoying getting cook books to flick through, something I hadn't thought about before as viable library options. I always get inspiration from cookbooks, though rarely use the recipes, so flicking through these over breakfast seemed like a fun thing to do. Next year I think I'll grab more non fiction as there's a lot of gardening books as well which would also be inspiring.
I also really want to read the Booker Prize for this year, Samantha Harvey's Orbital, but the reserve list is about 30 people long so I might just have to buy it. I think Big W have copies for $14 compared to the usual $35. Reading is an expensive hobby.
However, the thought of curling up with a book on Christmas Day and beyond on a beach in Tassie for the summer is just a really warm thought.
What are you reading at the moment?
With Love,
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I have 2 going, a Christmas book "the Christmas Table" and re-reading Marcia Muller's "Where Echos Live". My sister sent me "West with Giraffes" by Lynda Rutledge. She had been sent it by my aunt. I had sort of started it (15 pages) when I found the Nicholas Sparks book on Wednesday. I finished the Sparks book on Thursday so my helper could return it, as it was the newest of his, for 2024.Yesterday at the Senior Center I found the Christmas book, so now that's the one. I'll get back to Giraffes afterward. The Muller book is for before sleep reading.
Looks like you are all sorted, and I love the idea of you reading as the Christmas lights and music warm your soul x
I have a long list to read 😆 but my current read is The Zahir by Paulo Coelho.
Oh nice, are you enjoying it? Haven't read him in years
I hope Mommy makes it through Christmas okay.
Regarding books, I've just finished "I am Pilgrim" from Terry Hayes. And because there is new serie Cien años de soledad on Netflix, I think I will read the book before I'll watch it. I red this great book 30 years ago when I was ať school...😉
Oh the book is so wonderful. I'm a bit worried about watching the series and it not living up to my imaginings. It's one of my favorites of all time..
Yes, I have strange feelings before I watch the movie or serie based on the book. I have to read book again after 30 years and then I will decide if I watch or not...;)
Some book based movies are great, but...
I understand what you mean. I loved Tolkien's Hobit as I was teenager and I created my own movie while reading. I never watched the movie created many years later ;)
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I think I've heard about this book before. Seems it has a nice plot to sink in after all. Bad luck my pocket is not that deep to try it out yet😅.