Summer has arrived in our side of Europe this week, and I've been suffering with it. I've been reading a lot again lately which has been enjoyable. Today I started Letters from Egypt by Lucie Duff Gordon and in the blazing heat I was a bit baffled by the notion that everyone thought her health would improve if she just spent more time in more tropical surroundings. I'm not sure if it did that much for her because she did kick the bucket in a rather untimely manner but maybe there is a point in it for some? I think I would probably die on the spot mere seconds after having left the airplane.
Aside from that today I also finished The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. I had wanted to read this after having finished a lovely biography about Agatha and I did feel the need to continue with her for a little while longer. Those vintage pockets are just lovely, very snappy reads. Actually I did feel the need to go for another pocket of hers after but I decided on Lucie after all. I've been dying to start in one of my fair few books of letter collections, reading correspondence is so fascinating to me.
I was just speaking to a friend of mine from Nafplio (Greece) and I told him about Gerald Durrell, he was a naturalist who spent his childhood in Corfu in the 1930s. I've spent a great deal of time in Greece as a child, all our summer holidays were there. We went to Corfu as well, the most gorgeous island! Now that I am typing this I realize that when I was at my parents house this afternoon I should have taken a look at our photographs from that holiday. Perhaps next week! Anyway my friend will look into Gerald, he had never heard of him before.
The point of that was actually that I also have a lovely book with letters from Gerald to Henry Miller. The cover is rather unusual though so I think I will not be reading that book in public. I also have my eye on a nice collection of the books he wrote about his youth, so I think it would be nice to read that beforehand. I do wish to go back to Greece sometime in the future, but I don't know where I would need to go to re-capture the feeling of my childhood.
After having written all of this I do feel like I would want to go to a few book stores tomorrow but as it's a holiday I doubt many of them will be open. I still have to get The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman, I've had to wait a while for the proper paperback version to come out. I've waited so long I can imagine he's almost ready with the next one! That would be lovely, although again, I would have to wait for the paperback...
Well I think that was it for now though because I'd like to get back into Letters From Egypt. Please enjoy a picture of my lovely Luna lounging in the sun as a parting gift!
-Lily
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