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I have always enjoyed reading during the summer holidays. I grew up in England and because of family, would spend summers in a mountainous part of Austria, close to a lake. If I wasn't walking or swimming, I was reading. I read everything from crime to the classics. And I read one of my first Australian novels there too - Peter Carey's Illywhacker, which introduced me to strange places such as Geelong and Essendon.
Now I find that most of my reading is for work and the holidays tend to be a time when in theory I can indulge myself. In reality, though, I use the time to catch up with books that for one reason or another I didn't manage to read during the year, have kept specifically to relish in relaxed mode or to get ahead with books that due out in February or March. So I have Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog and Alex Miller's Landscape of Farewell lined up. And I am also anticipating an advance copy of Peter Carey's next novel, His Illegal Self. The wheel turns full circle.
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