mkmurrays

If I haven't wittered on about it enough, I finally get to move to Canada at the end of the month, with a month's holidays, sorry vacation, en route.
So, as I'll be taking far too many flights for my nervous stomach to contemplate , can anyone recommend some cracking reading for the trips?

All suggestions gratefully received. Ta.

Atlantic Xpat

http://www.amazon.ca/Airframe-Michae...6905489&sr=8-1

mkmurrays

Too kind.

I'll have to double the Diazapan dose if I take that one with me.

dbd33

I filled in a recent flight with Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. It's about the politics of water. That was fascinating but a bit heavy so I mixed in Riders by Jilly Cooper which is about horses and bonking.

Bleech

At the same time?

mkmurrays

Jilly Cooper's clearly a talented woman. And athletic, even at her age.

dbd33

Nope; if you want a novel featuring them simultaneously you need the fabulously titled "In and Out" by Barbara Moss.

steve666

Environmentalists bonk too though, although they don't usually put it in their books

Bleech

I'll order it today, thanks for the tip

dbd33

Fabulously badly written, the product of a deranged mind well informed about show jumping and sexual variations but not the syntax of English. I loved it.

dbd33

<struggles to imagine Edward Abbey going at it>

rain426

Legend, by David Gemmell. My fave book, must have read it about 200 times. Even my mum liked it!

Souvenir

Airplane reading material must be chosen with care.

I am one of those people that doesn't sleep well on planes and I don't watch the movies. I have to read. Buckling up and then discovering that you've already read the book you just bought is a bummer.

Biiiiink

Not a recommendation, I haven't read it yet - but this book by the daughter of an acquaintance of my father looks interesting...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../ncosta107.xml

The novel portrays the lives of natives and immigrants in northern Ontario in the 1860s. It is cold and harsh - and a murder changes everything.

...

Ianucci said he fell in love with Penney's novel after about 50 pages. "We felt that this was not just an extraordinary first novel but also an extraordinary novel," said the writer and broadcaster. "It was a very ambitious undertaking."

Arris

Hi, here's a link about a book I recommended about a couple moving to Canada - hope it helps

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422912

Arris