4 February 2014

airplane reads

Picking books for an flight (both ways) and holiday is always a fraught decision. Especially when travelling to a country where finding an English book is unlikely. What if you don't like what you've brought?

So, when faced with a combined thirty hours of flying go with what you know. Go with some favourites. Go with your gut. And make sure it'll last:
  • Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick: Something that's been on my shelf for years. So I've obviously always wanted to read it, but never got around to it.
  • Summer House by Herman Koch: Great first novel and the blurb on this suggests more of the same. A safe, reliable choice.
  • Capital by Rana Dasgupta: A cultural-urban-studies view of Delhi. Perhaps the riskiest choice, but urban studies is normally a win and a rapidly developing part of the world means interesting goings on.
And now off to Hong Kong.