Making a reading list the focus of an entire holiday is a convenient way to spend your time off. And as people who’ve done it found – it can be life-changing
Breaking a leg so you can have time to read is a common, warped fantasy. But your circumstances needn’t be nearly as drastic.Breaking a leg so you can have time to read is a common, warped fantasy. But your circumstances needn’t be nearly as drastic.e’ve all stretched airline weight limits or our back’s carrying capacity by cramming books into a suitcase, only to return home without having opened a single volume. But books needn’t be sidenotes to a holiday.
Peace stretches over 1,200. Such heavyweight novels get pushed down the to-read list throughout the year, but on a book-devoted holiday they’re a lot more conquerable. Byrne recalls working through these titles “in a happy way” – by rewarding herself with chocolate during challenging parts. “In periods where I’ve gotten really busy, I’ve romanticised deeply awful experiences just so I could read books,” says Benjamin Law, writer and co-host of ABC RN’s Stop Everything!
For freelance producer and DJ Colin Ho, books are so key to his holidays, he’s strategised the best way to travel with them.“I’ll usually have a slim paperback in a jacket pocket,” he says. “And yes, I do pick jackets based on whether they’ll fit a slim paperback.” A medium-to-heavy title gets tucked into his backpack; there’s a partition of publications in his checked suitcase. “The e-reader is always the backup,” he says. If your bulging bag can’t fit a finished book, post it home, he says.