Fun

Sometimes it is fun to take the boat to Hull, hop on a bus to York and just spend the day shopping. York is a very lovely town. We had unbelievable good weather: the sun was shining, no rain, minimal wind, just perfect.

And of course a trip to England isn’t a proper trip without some book shopping. So, I paid a little visit to Waterstones and bought myself some books. Very happy with it.

These are the books I bought:

1. 1.       John Connolly, “The burning soul”
2. 2.       S.J. Parris, “Sacrilege”
3. 3.       Carlos Ruiz Zafon, “The prisoner of heaven”

I finally have completed the whole Charlie Parker-series. All I have to do now, is find time and the right mood to read them.

I also bought the third instalment in the Giordano Bruno-series. This series – just as C.J. Sansom – takes place in Tudor-England. Gruesome things happened back then. The huge difference is the hero: Parris’ hero is a foreigner, an Italian heretic. Sansoms hero is an Englishmen, a hunchback. Both are kind of outcasts. I like them both (but Shardlake a bit more).

It is always a funny thing to read a foreign book in a foreign translation. I could be lazy and read Zafon in Dutch, but somehow I prefer the English translation. I noticed immediately that the book isn’t very thick. It is smaller than the previous one. I’m looking forward to reading it. A cemetery of books. What a brilliant idea!

I also visited the charity shop of the British Heart Foundation. There I found one more book:

1. 4.       Steve Berry, “The Paris vendetta”

Always fun reading Berry.

And now I have to wait till the end of August when we’ll visit England again. Poor me.