things change

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland – I couldn’t get beyond the first 10 pages. It had great reviews on Amazon though! This left me without a holiday read so I had to find a replacement in the Pickering second-hand bookshop.

In the Wake by Per Petterson, a Norwegian novel on family and loneliness, was a laboured read.

So not a great holiday for reading. But the pictures came out good!

A Life Too Short – The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng is a marvelous book about football and depression.
In 2009, the German goalkeeper Robert Enke stepped in front of a train. He suffered with depression. This award-winning book tells of the pressures of being a footballer, in particular those of being the goalkeeper, and of how Robert Enke’s depression would eventually lead to his suicide. Highly recommended for anyone interested in football.