One of the most difficult preparations for a long journey is choosing the correct books to take along. It has to be something amazing that will hold my attention for a long time, and hopefully this amazing-ness will be balanced out by the book not being too heavy. But it has to be heavy enough not to be a half hour read, it needs to have a few hours of life in it, at least.
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The first choice for this particular trip is performing very well indeed. I'm 200 pages in and loving it. It's Nick Hornby's
Juliet, Naked![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_umg9Di3Ok5WvAnskB2TapX0oFvuBoz8A_iNsIQn_vC5ETWIk61B41vmSxvUzFNnYDLTMPocexuDY-0Jd4yItve4QuchpiI8B9UUzvmNSeCQ-rd2knzsZ1IiFJG5SJLYIQrYIkpfZxhEzryKS6b=s0-d)
. Hornby has an amazing skill to juggle humor, deft characterization, deep insights into music and art and also a real understanding of how people act and why. It's been a really entertaining read so far.
Also, the cover is awesome. I was staring at it for quite a while before it suddenly hit me that it was more than just a set of ear buds.