It’s the Easter holidays - at last! - and I’ve just spent a week in sunny Malta (of which more will come later) where I’ve been able to enjoy getting properly stuck in a book. The Spring term at school is always short but intense - mock exams and frantic last drafts of coursework require endless marking as well as plenty of counselling and coaching of stressed-out students - and this also coincided with the school production I’ve been working on since October. Time for personal reading and blogging over the past few weeks has therefore been virtually non-existent, so a reasonably long plane journey (3 hours), chilling in sunny spots and early nights has been a real balm for my reading-deprived soul. Luckily, I thoroughly enjoyed every book I took with me, and I’ve been inspired by each of them to explore their subject matters and authors further. So, quite the win!
If you like magical realism, you might also like the early works of Isabel Allende.
I felt pretty meh about Zone of Interest when I read it. I conceded that it probably would make a better movie.