I may have to try The Painted Veil, I've had Of Human Bondage on my TBR forever but keep being too intimidated to start it! And A Room Above a Shop does sound like it would be worth reading, even if the author doesn't seem to have quite found his feet yet <3
The Ed Viesturs book sounds interesting - I read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer a number of years ago and it set me off on a bit of a phase of reading books about mountain climbing (a thing I have never done and never will do /o\). One I'd recommend, if you fancied more of that sort of thing, is Heinrich Harrer's The White Spider, which is a history of the various attempts to climb the north face of the Eiger - Harrer was in the party who made the first successful ascent by that route.
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Date: 2026-02-28 09:47 am (UTC)The Ed Viesturs book sounds interesting - I read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer a number of years ago and it set me off on a bit of a phase of reading books about mountain climbing (a thing I have never done and never will do /o\). One I'd recommend, if you fancied more of that sort of thing, is Heinrich Harrer's The White Spider, which is a history of the various attempts to climb the north face of the Eiger - Harrer was in the party who made the first successful ascent by that route.