{"id":87194,"date":"2014-07-27T13:53:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=87194"},"modified":"2014-07-27T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T17:57:03","slug":"my-vacation-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=87194","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI had brought Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon<\/i> on vacation with me, which I am loving re-reading, as well as Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor<\/i>, which I have never read and am in love with already. It’s already made me laugh out loud three times and I’m only on page 12. Choosing what to read on vacation is a weighty decision. But you also have to be willing to throw out what you planned and choose your route spontaneously, should the occasion arise. Game of Thrones<\/i> was on the bookshelf at the house where we were staying. I have never seen one episode of the show. I have never read any of the books. For no particular reason, I love all of those actors, and love Peter Dinklage, but, you know, I am extremely behind in television watching in general. I enjoy Martin in interviews, he’s a fascinating guy, but just never read any of his work. But suddenly last week I picked it up one day, took it down to the dock with me, lay on my towel, read only the Prologue, and thought, immediately, with something akin to despair: “Oh shit. Now I have to read all the books. Dammit.” Based only on the Prologue! The characters are amazing, the world is totally fleshed out and lived in, it feels real down to its underlying architecture, and he’s a beautiful writer. Had a lot of fun reading it over this past week (I finished it yesterday morning), but even more fun was talking about it with my nephew Cashel, who has read all the books (so far). Our conversation lasted the whole week. “So what’s happening now?” he would ask me as he joined me on the dock. Then we would talk it out and discuss plot and characters and the TV show and the adaptation and it was so fun. I love my nephew! He is such a great person, smart and funny and kind and caring. I will continue on with the rest of the series, and text him my thoughts, so we can keep the conversation going. <\/p>\n

And Cashel’s vacation read? Cat’s Cradle<\/i> was one of them (he’s as fast a reader as I am, and blows through two books in a day sometimes), so we had a lot of fun talking about that too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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