Hazel Edwards's Blog - Posts Tagged "outback-ferals"
Climate Co-ordinated Books, Reading Intransit & Carrying Books
Ever climate co-ordinated your book, in reverse?
It's a kind of climate control.
If organised, I'll choose a book with a cold setting when visiting a hot location. And vice versa.
For weight reasons ( the baggage allowance, not my weight) I've moved to e-books and audio stories.
As a children's author I travel to various literary festivals, especially at this time of the year. So I listen to audio stories while driving and I've started to add e-books to my Ipad which fits in my big handbag.
With delayed flights and other frustrations, it helps to be able to lose yourself in a completely different world so I prefer fiction with a strongly evoked historical or geographic landscape. Or serious non-fiction which I might not pick up in print version, but if there's no choice, I keep listening, or repeat the chapter. I also like well plotted mysteries, so there's the pleasure of returning to a complex plot. Reading Antarctica: a Biography or Jesse Blackadder's 'Towards the Light" ( about Norwegian women in Antarctica) is great if flying to Darwin, the setting of 'Outback Ferals'.
I've enjoyed ( or maybe felt vicariously ) the 'cold, bleak' Icelandic setting of 'Burial Rites' .
Although I should read books set in the location I'm visiting, I tend to read them on the way back. Or start to write my own, with that setting.
Also learning how to re-charge devices, so I don't lose the end of the book.
It's a kind of climate control.
If organised, I'll choose a book with a cold setting when visiting a hot location. And vice versa.
For weight reasons ( the baggage allowance, not my weight) I've moved to e-books and audio stories.
As a children's author I travel to various literary festivals, especially at this time of the year. So I listen to audio stories while driving and I've started to add e-books to my Ipad which fits in my big handbag.
With delayed flights and other frustrations, it helps to be able to lose yourself in a completely different world so I prefer fiction with a strongly evoked historical or geographic landscape. Or serious non-fiction which I might not pick up in print version, but if there's no choice, I keep listening, or repeat the chapter. I also like well plotted mysteries, so there's the pleasure of returning to a complex plot. Reading Antarctica: a Biography or Jesse Blackadder's 'Towards the Light" ( about Norwegian women in Antarctica) is great if flying to Darwin, the setting of 'Outback Ferals'.
I've enjoyed ( or maybe felt vicariously ) the 'cold, bleak' Icelandic setting of 'Burial Rites' .
Although I should read books set in the location I'm visiting, I tend to read them on the way back. Or start to write my own, with that setting.
Also learning how to re-charge devices, so I don't lose the end of the book.
