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BOOKS
HUFFINGTON
07.15.12
Six Books In Search Of A Vacation
We may drag our bodies on vacation, but our brains also need their own escape from
the every day. But what should you read, and during what part of your holiday?
Here’s Huffington’s perfect recipe of sun, sea, sand and something to read that’s not
email, PowerPoint slides or memos from the boss. — By Andrew Losowsky
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
While you wait for your
flight to be called, you begin
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
(Crown). And you can’t put
it down. You barely notice
as you board the plane,
hooked by Flynn’s dramatic
psychological twists. The
flight is a blur. You finish the
book as the plane lands, and
demand that your partner
read it right away, so you
can discuss the ending.
The Fault In Our Stars
by John Green
You arrive at your hotel, unpack
your bags and head to the
beach with a copy of The Fault
In Our Stars by John Green
(Dutton Juvenile). The story is
heartbreaking and hilarious, and
as you drift in and out of a nap
you wonder if the two people you
can hear laughing together near
the surf are characters Hazel
and Augustus, playing together
in the sand as they ponder the
fundamental questions of life.
Birds of a Lesser
Paradise by Megan
Mayhew Bergman
Later that afternoon, you read
a couple of short stories from
Birds of a Lesser Paradise
by Megan Mayhew Bergman
(Scribner), a debut collection
of nature-inspired stories that
veer artfully between the tender
and the fantastical. You imagine
that the cries of the seagulls
are in fact mating calls of rare
birds nestling in the backwoods
of North Carolina.