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Strangest Reaction to a Philippa Gregory Novel

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Sat March 14th, 2015, 4:24 am

And what would he have done if you dropped HIS book down a crevasse?
It must have been a well-surfaced trail, if you could read while walking it.

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Post by SCW » Sat March 14th, 2015, 10:39 pm

From memory, I was walking very slowly. I guess its not safe to walk and read at the same time.
For a while afterwards I tended not to take books on small trips. Although my last holiday I spent a lot of time on the beach reading A Kings Ransom. And my DH was happy to read his biography of Einstein.

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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Posts: 3566
Joined: August 2008
Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
Location: California Bay Area

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Sun March 15th, 2015, 3:00 pm

I confess myself to thinking that hiking and books are a wonderful combination. My solution is audiobooks. I used to take a cassette walkman on packtrips (not when I was the guide, tho--you need all your attention on the front and back members of the group) and welcomed the advent of the mp3 player. Now I will use my kindle's text-to-speech function so that I can go from reading at home, to listening in the car or on the trail, and back to reading at rest stops.

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