I'd not read anything by Barbara Kingsolver before, but a retelling of David Copperfield set in Appalachia really appealed. I'm not sure what it is about the hillbilly culture of the mountains that appeals so much to me, but I find it all so fascinating - the language, the music, the hard-scrabble way of life. . . I think i'm going to be about the Blue Ridge Mountains for a while. the Log from the Sea of Cortez is non-fiction, and as with so much of Steinbeck's non-fiction, I enjoyed his wry humour and story telling while finding the bits about marine life intensely boring.
Demon Copperhead was mostly read in a caravan in Burnham-on-Sea, within smelling distance of the mudflats and able to hear the wind clanking the masts. The weather was good and we had a fun holiday, despite so many complaints at being made to walk or be outside. I got a few runs in though after my injury which is good, and it's nice that we can go away as a family still despite the bickering
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