Books!

Today was the final day of my intensive, four-week TESOL course. We've all been so busy over the past month that it comes as something of a shock - certainly a very strange feeling - not to have any work that we've got to do. OK, so my bedroom could do with tidying (there are offcuts of brightly coloured card and discarded, half-finished lesson plans all over the floor!), but the certain knowledge that I don't have at least two assignments due in on Monday is - well - like suddenly finding that you're not in a tunnel any more but have emerged into sunlit fields.

In celebration, I paid a visit to Waterstone's on my way home, having realised that I actually hadn't read any fiction whatsoever over the last four weeks. Waterstone's almost always seem to have a 'three for two' offer on. I was easily drawn in by their marketing ploy, choosing one book that I definitely wanted to read, one that I sort of wanted to read, and a third which I'd never heard of before and only bought because I was looking for another one that might be interesting, seeing as it was 'free'...

I think I'm going to begin with Book One (the one I'd seen and definitely wanted to read): A Winter Book, by Tove Jansson.