Books

For me, reading is part of being on holiday. Not guide books - I almost never read those once I'm in the country I'm visiting!
This holiday I downloaded a whole lot of easy-reading, vaguely fantasy-fiction books by the likes of Mercedes Lackey onto my laptop, so I've always had SOMEthing to read. But one can't easily use one's computer on, say, a flight or a long train journey, so back to actual PAGES!!
A really good find (I don't think I've mentioned this before...?) has been the 'Temeraire' novels of Naomi Novik. Set in the time of the Napoleonic wars, they are somewhat in the style of Patrick O'Brien but with the added premise that dragons were a part of daily life. Basically, very good yarns - just what one needs on holiday!
At the moment tho, I'm reading Richard Dawkin's 'The God Delusion', which I can highly reccommend to anyone who has the remotest doubt about the existance of any sort of god or gods: the fundamentalist Christians of Middle America would run screaming! He writes in a very amusing way about some very serious problems (and let's face it, the majority of the world's problems stem from religion) and his logic as to why the concept of 'god' is delusional is quite unassailable. I am thoroughly enjoying it!