Reading

I have been on holiday to Tenerife, while I was there I read four books. All different.
I took with me "Shadowmancer" a fantasy set in Yorkshire near Whitby. It was the first fantasy book I have read. Although it was primarily a kids' book, i njoyed it. Perhaps because it is set in an area that I know. The author was G.P.Taylor.

The second one was "Coastliners" by Joanne Harris, I have read most of her books, but this one did not seem to me to be as good. It was the tale of a girl returning to the small Island off the French Coast that she was brought up on.

The Hotel where we stayed had a "Library" where if you put books in, you can take books out. I put my two in and took out: "All Passions Spent" by Vita Sackville West and "My Beautiful Career" by Miles Franklin. Coincidentally, both books were set in the late 1800s to early 1900s.
Both dealt with the "privillaged" lives led by men, and the lot of women as "second class" people.
One book by an accomplished author, and one written by a first time 16 year old author who lived in the Australian outback (she had to write, like the Brontes', in a masculine name). I also began "The Girl who married a Lion" by Alexander McCall Smith. This turned out to be Aesops Fables type stories in an African setting, quite charming.