Improving reading is best not done on the beaches or beside a swimming pool
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The Telegraph 08 Jul 2014
THERE’S something strange about the idea of saving our reading for holidays. After all, we watch films and listen to music all year round. But something about that long stretch of free time by the pool or the beach tempts us to cram in 12 months’ worth of improving fiction or science. Here are five books better saved for a rainy day — and five that are perfect summer alternatives.