{"id":140,"date":"2008-06-17T02:54:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T09:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-06-22T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T20:11:49","slug":"reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"READING LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">One of the interesting dilemmas before starting a journey, especially one of this length, is what reading material to pack. Space is at a premium in a motorhome so you have to choose carefully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finally finished reading H.V.Morton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a title=\"In Search of England, Morton\" href=\" http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=63\" target=\"_blank\">In Search of England<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and debating what to start next. Although, to be honest, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not getting much downtime to read, hence the length of time it took me to get through Morton! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing what little opportunity I have after a daily routine of photographing, traveling, finding places to camp for the night, servicing the motorhome (filling with water, emptying sewage, putting up\/taking down beds etc), checking posts on the website, researching future destinations and events, updating the blog, loading and unloading film (in a portable dark bag), eating, helping to entertain Jemima and finally Sarah and I trying to get some personal time together!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a list of what I have to choose from on our cupboard shelf-<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/reading-list.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141\" title=\"reading-list\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/reading-list.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/reading-list.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/reading-list-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A Dream of England, John Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (Sarah&#8217;s recommendation)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh\u00c2\u00a0(Sarah&#8217;s recommendation)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Catch 22, Jospeh Heller<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ed Ruscha and Photography, Sylvia Wolf<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Landscape and Power, Edited by W.J.T.Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Larry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Party, Carol Shields (Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lonely Planet Guide to Britain<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On Photography, Susan Sontag<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Persuasion, Jane Austen (Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sugar and Other Stories, A.S.Byatt (Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Art Book, Phaidon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The English Year, Steve Roud<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing (Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Granta Book of Reportage<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Paris Review Interviews, Volume 2\u00c2\u00a0(Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Photo Book, Phaidon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Story of England, Christopher Hibbert<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The World of Robert Fisk<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you have any recommendations on good books for a journey around England, please post them below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting dilemmas before starting a journey, especially one of this length, is what reading material to pack. 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Although, to be honest, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[17,11,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}