flight paths discussion

In my opinion, a good travel book is thick and well written, interesting but easy to put down, and pick up again.
I like short stories for short trips, but want something I wont finish too quickly.

please add your recommendations.

There is little worse than the dismay of being caught with nothing to read when away from home.

I have noticed a move from releasing a book at Christmas to doing it at the start of the Summer holiday season.

I normally pack a Historical Fiction like c j sansom or Bernard Cornwall or John Jakes, a fantasy/sci fi book and a random pick at the airport , normally with a glitzy cover or mystery (Labyrinth.

Then if I am on the long September holiday I go to the local library.

Hoping to blitz my tbr pile whilst on holiday. I can read extra books without adding to the tbr pile.

" 'Its my only hope' obi-1", of keeping the tbr pile under 100.

Ice wrote: "Hoping to blitz my tbr pile whilst on holiday. I can read extra books without adding to the tbr pile.

" 'Its my only hope' obi-1", of keeping the tbr pile under 100."

comendable I suppose Ice to chip away...rather hopeless task.
Im my case, just my virtual tbr pile alone has reached alarming proportions.Luckily, GR is keeping track of those.
My actual tbr pile is an example of my random order
#3 piles by my bed of tbr next, plus a box. Then there is a troublesomely big pile of books I have recently that are waiting to be reviewed or entered into one of my notebooks.

Is Gozo a rough trip or one of those oops were there?

I often do re-reads when I travel. This way, if I'm interrupted by anything on the train/plane, like the meal service or a movie I want to watch, then I don't feel frustrated about having to stop in the middle of a chapter.

I usually bring a second book for after I arrive at my destination to read during down time in a hotel, or if things are too tense or boring during a visit with family. The second book is usually something more interesting than the re-read, so I can escape into it if needed...

I don't know how it happens, but when I arrive home after travel, I tend to have two or more books than when I left. Do you think they multiply in the suitcase somehow?

For sure they must! Just as I am incapable of buying one book at a time but must have two.Onr can find amazing things in old second hand booksores all over the world. Thats something we dont want to lose

Re-reads! Now thts a brilliant idea.
Sounds like you do a fair amount of travelling still.

I like to leave a book after I have read it in an appropriate spot. Like finding a gate of Rome to leave The Gates of RomeConn Iggulden and wilbur Smith'sElephant Songat the elephant refuge in Thailand.

For a long time, my ex and I lived in San Francisco. My family was near NY and her family in Orange county, so lots of travel time very year. Also, Many trips to France over the years. I don't know how the professional business travelers do it.

One of my favorite re-reads for flying is because it takes a lot of focused attention and makes it easier to forget that you're in a metal box zipping through the stratosphere at high speeds. And, it's a book about travel through time, memory, and space. I've read it about 10 times over the years.

I've never left a book in a specific place like that. What a fun idea! Next trip I'll have to bring a book that matches my destination.

This is the place for Ice to tell us about his trip and how the library thing worked out....

They were 'over the moon' with the book contribution, especially when we went for a second time !

Did you manage to read them all before you gave them away?