I just finished reading The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey. It's a re-telling of Jane Eyre, set in 1950s/1960s Scotland, and I liked it, but not as much as the original.
When Matt and I did our European backpacking trip in 2001, I found a paperback copy of Jane Eyre on a bookshelf in our Swiss hostel. I had never read it before, and I was so captivated that I stayed up late for three nights in a row, reading in my twin bed by the light of a dim bulb.
The bookshelf had a sign that said, "take a book, leave a book", but I didn't have any book to trade, so I was determined to finish it before we moved on to another city. I had maybe 50 pages to go when we had to leave, so I sadly left the book behind and waited another week or two before we were back home in the States and I could get it from the library.
I'm one who easily falls asleep if I settle in to bed with a book, but there are a few books that I've stayed up late to read:
Harry Potter series
Twilight series (I know. Shut up.)
The Help
Rules of Civility
Any books that have swept you away? Or do you always stay up late to read?
The last one for me would be Mistborn. It's a high action book and it ofen lacks good places to read, and I can't just stop reading when the herioine is in peril.
ReplyDeletePrior to that, I can't quite remember. I recall I would /plan/ an all-nighter when the Harry Potter books were released, but the 7th failed to entice me to stay awake. In our family we opened one present on Christmas eve, and as a teen I aimed to open a book so I could stay up all night reading.