40,41 and a holiday

So,

It was a good reading week this week for me, as I was on holidays with my family in Ixtapa Mexico. I read: The House of the Scorpion and Rebel Angels. The House of the Scorpion is by far on of the best books I have read all year and likely one of my favourite YA books to date. "Rebel Angels" is book 2 in a series of books about a girl in the 19 century. I enjoyed this book more than the first book of the series (A Great and Terrible Beauty) because it dealt more with the subject matter than the issues of a teenage girl in 19 century London of good breeding. The books themselves are that good kind of fantasy. The kind sans dragons and the like. In my opinion, these are the books girls should be reading rather than waste their time with crappy Twilight and friends. I can't wait for book 3.

On the holiday front; it was a good one. I practically did nothing. Which is exactly what I intended to do. The holiday "almost" went off without a hitch. Although if you ask at the right time there is a funny story in there someplace. The weather was hot (30 - 36C) with chance of cloudy (28-30C) all week long. We all snorkeled, thou it wasn't as good as the Costa Rica experience, we enjoyed the flavour of an all inclusive and then we came home. One week at an all inclusive is long enough for me. As for my next holiday it will have to be full of adventure. I was starting to get bored around day 4. Oh and having Christmas in a hot place is a strange sensation. Especially when they offer an entertainment program called "Hollywood" and I had salmon for dinner.

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