aunt_zelda | Books for MAGFest (Reply)

Packing for MAGFest. I have a surprising amount of room left in my small suitcase, and I'm pretty sure I'm packing way too many shirts. Then again, my jumpsuit hasn't arrived yet, if it doesn't get here by Tuesday I'll have to go to Goodwill and frantically try to find something I can use

Still, lots of room in the suitcase. And about 10-12 hours on trains and busses and waiting in stations, depending on whether I'm going down or coming home.

So ... books! I'm staring at a pretty decent stack here, trying to figure out which I should take, which I should leave. Deciding which to take off of my meticulously organized/stacked shelves (wasn't that an event this summer, jeez ...) was the first step: no hardcovers; nothing I have on audio.

Now, though, there's all these books I've never read before, so I don't know if they'll be good companions for this trip or dead weight I'll regret after twenty pages. Auuuuuuuugh.

I'm thinking Night Watch (the Russian one, not the Discworld one) would be a good start. Other than that ... I dunno. This might take a while.

Also, loading up my iPod with audiobooks and podcasts and some choice playlists. And I'll have my laptop, and the trains I'm taking all promise WiFi, so I'll be ok. I just want to get some nice reading in, since I'll have the time. I don't have a lot of reading time at college, I've taken to reading during dinner but then my friends show up and I can't read and eat and be sociable all at the same time, so I've been about a hundred pages from the end of Dodger for the past two months and I'm NEVER going to find out whodunit at this point!

I think some of my nonfiction history books are a good idea. Take a few hours to get lost in those, with limited distractions. Pity my copy of 1776 is a hardcover. I love you David McCullough, but your book is too heavy for me to lug to MAGFest!