With all the time spent on planes during our holiday, I got a fair bit of reading done. Here is a rough outline of some of them.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.
Reading like a cross between Lewis Carroll and Douglas Adams, this unique piece of fictional fiction (ie fictional stories of previously fictional characters) is a great read and refreshingly imaginative.
Fforde’s sequels include Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten, although when read in rapid succession (as I did), the ideas start to get a bit stale. Still I look forward to reading the latest offering (First Among Sequel) and the spin-off novels The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear
Plot Summary: (from Wikipedia)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
This is a beautifully written book and was the winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. It is set in India in the 1950s and gives a wonderful insight into life in that country in great time of transition.
Highly recommended. Plot Summary: (from Wikipedia)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this tells the story of an intersexed person of Greek descent, living in America. The book is so well written that many who read the book think that Eugenides himself must be an intersex person, but this is not the case. He is simply an excellent researcher and brilliant writer.
Plot Summary: (from Wikipedia)
The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
The premise of the book is that when you die, you meet five people who have changed your life, or whose live you have changed and they explain your life to you.
This is the only book I can remember that has made me cry. (I should never cut onions and read at the same time) I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Plot Summary: (from the author)
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