Midsummer!

Well, it is the second Midsummer Day so it's almost over... but here's a picture that pretty much captures this Midsummer. For once it was warm and sunny rather than cold and rainy, and I got to spend quite a lot of time with my book. :) Midsummer is a sort of magical time, so keeping with my holiday reading traditions, I chose Phil Rickman's "The Man in the Moss", which (set around Samhain, not Summer Solstice) features a nice number of mystical and mythological and historical elements. Oh, and bog bodies! Nothing better on a sunny summer day than reading about rain-lashed bogs and ancient human sacrifice. :D

Summer reading

Well, no. I don't have specific summer reads, if by that one means that one reads a particular genre or certain types of books during the summer. I don't have beach books, either, because I don't go to the beach. This reminds me of a little anecdote... way back when I was much younger, a friend and I went on a holiday in Greece. It was supposed to be a sun and parties kind of holiday... when we arrived at the hotel, the first thing I unpacked was a huge, thick volume (volume one of two, English edition) of Les Miserables. You should've seen my friend's face! :D

But in general, I read whatever I happen to feel like, and the weather or the season has little to do with that. Holiday reads are another matter, however... and if you have a favourite summer read, please go ahead and leave a comment, I would love to hear about it. :)

Anyway, it being summer (= mostly wet and cold) and me feeling too lazy to actually write a blog post, I've decided to simply post a couple of reading pictures.

When glancing up from the book:

Those were the few warm, sunny days we've had so far... more often it's been like this: