Festive Reads on a Thursday...
I like to read seasonally, as well as based on my mood and my location. So over the December to January holidays while I don’t necessarily make my reading as blatant as reading all of A Christmas Carol every year, (though I do always dip into it with students this term), I do make sure my books are either: cosy, weather specific, or glitzy!
Thus I have just begun reading the The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. A sweet tale of how an unexpected visitor in the form of a feline can change one’s life (this is basically mine and David Horgan’s life story except we found our cat, Stevie, in the streets of Hackney rather than in those of Tokyo!)
Next I have on my ‘To Read’, (on the long train journey from London to Cornwall), list The Thing in the Snow by Sean Adams- not exactly cosy this is apparently a cross between a Beckett play and a Black Mirror episode, eeek! But yes it does feature snow and ice (it’s set in a sparsely populated far Northern Research institute) and apparently also featuring some kind of monster.
Finally bringing back some glitter and glamour to the no-man’s land that is the stretch from Christmas to New Year’s - what a friend of mine calls ‘the gooch’ - I will be reading Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Last Waltz. This is Zelda’s, the original flapper turned fascist, first (and only) novel and it got sort-of panned by reviewers at the time but who knows maybe they were just being sexist!
I’d love to hear what your seasonal reads are, whether overtly yuletide themed, or absolutely and totally random. Basically let’s stop talking I’m a Celebrity and let’s start talking books! So please do get involved below.
At the other end of the weather spectrum here are my summer reads which I read in the blazing Grecian heat this July and August! Other book recommendations can be found here and here.
Finally, as it’s Christmas time perhaps you’d like to read my piece on organised religions, churches, spirituality, and the like here. Or indeed my piece about turkeys here.
As always thank you very much for reading, for sharing, liking and subscribing. It means a lot.
Love,
Emma x o x o