While Light Holiday Blogging Continues....

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I've just started listening to Tom Corven, an audiobook about a boy who finds himself alone and amnesiac in a strange world, with an uncanny power within him. It was inspired by the wild landscape of Arran, and the author reading it has a great accent! So I think you'll enjoy it.

BBC 7 as always has some awesome books and book dramatizations to listen to, right now including C.S. Lewis' Perelandra and some Lord Peter Wimsey detection. But I'm excited about Whisky Galore, the saga of a fictional Scottish island faced with a real WWII problem. What to do when whisky is sternly rationed, but a whole boatload going to America gets shipwrecked on your barren isle? I mean, it'd be a sin to let it all go to waste, as even the priest and the preacher agree....

(The book (and the awesomely fun movie, shot on location!) also features a sweet subplot about how an English soldier sets about marrying his island sweetheart, complete with advice from the local bard. It's by Compton Mackenzie, the same gifted and hilarious Scottish writer who came up with Monarch of the Glen, and so there's a bit of a crossover in it. Highly recommended, if you can get ahold of a copy.)