So Excited I just might puke! Holiday Countdown -2

The reason for said excitement is not actually the holiday (for once) but instead is the book that I stumbled across in the local bookshop at lunchtime today - Stephen R. Lawhead's Hood. 

Stephen Lawhead + Robin Hood + Fantasy + the early years of Norman England!!!!!!!!

So I have picked my holiday reading then. Actually its sitting on my desk here. I've already read the prologue. But not here. NO, that was in the shop. I am trying to stop myself from turning to those magical words "Chapter 1".

Yes, I still haven't finished Crossstitch, or Terry Brooks' autobio. Yes, I have a pile of books to read, including Simon Greene and things I borrowed off people ages ago, and the Dark Is Rising Sequence which I need to reread before the film comes out in case they butcher it. (which looks likely given the trailers).

There is also the fact that I don't buy books. Not just like that. I go away, I read reviews, I see if they're in the library, I borrow them from friends and family. But buy a new book, in a bookshop, on first sight, the first of a series I haven't already read at least 7 of? - well, that's just hasty!

But... but... Robin Hood!

I mean this is up there with my childhood love of pirate movies. Errol Flynn has a lot to answer for.

Seriously thought, I will watch ANY adaptation of the Robin Hood legend, even the awful Xena type one (with aliens) from a few years back, the geographically challenged Prince of Thieves (Hadrian's wall? On the way from Dover to Nottingham?) even the marginally less awful recent BBC one. If it involves those magic two words, I'm hooked. Completely.

So, two more days to the holiday. Can I hold off reading the book before it? Well... we'll just have to see, won't we?

Early indications are... Unlikely.