{"id":51463,"date":"2010-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalresorts.com\/blog\/beach-books\/"},"modified":"2021-11-29T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:37:06","slug":"beach-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalresorts.com\/blog\/news\/beach-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>With the prospect of warm sun, clear blue waters and a wide beach beckoning, thoughts inevitably turn to relaxing on the soft white sand with a good book \u2013 or the latest download on your Kindle if you are so inclined \u2013 and before you are due to travel to the Mexican Caribbean you should always stock up on beach reads; you can never have too many!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps you like Nora Roberts, Philippa Gregory, Ann Tyler, Anita Shreve and Margaret Atwood or always choose the latest James Patterson, David Baldacci or Tom Clancy novels. Whether you bring books by Ian McEwan, A.S. Byatt and Hilary Mantel, decide to reread the classics or are hooked on the escapades of one &#8220;traditionally built&#8221; lady detective from Botswana, recently the subject of a HBO series, the beach is the place to drift off and set your imagination free. Even if you have your own favorite authors, here are some more ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Color<\/em> by Rose Tremain. Gold casts its fatal spell in this tale of 19th-century prospectors in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Random Acts of Heroic Love<\/em> by Danny Scheinmann. Two stories of love and loss and a journey of discovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Pompeii<\/em> by Robert Harris. A tale of love and adventure in the famous Roman city doomed to destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Notes from a Small Island<\/em> by Bill Bryson. An American writer travels through the United Kingdom and this is his funny and affectionate look at the island and its people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Sea of Poppies<\/em> by Amitav Ghosh. A rich saga of 19th-century India at the time of the Opium Wars. A ship sets sail for Mauritius with a motley crew of sailors, coolies and convicts, including a bankrupt Raja, a widowed opium farmer and a French runaway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Suite Fran\u00e7aise<\/em> by Irene N\u00e9mirovsky. A moving insight into human frailties, nobility, vanity, courage, love and hope. The story of a group of French citizens fleeing the Nazi invasion and of a community as it endures occupation. Tragically, the author perished in Auschwitz in 1942.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Secret Life<\/em> of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. A story of remarkable women in the South, a girl&#8217;s search for truth and how she finds a family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you do happen to run out of books during your vacation, there are two secondhand bookstores in the Cancun area with a good selection of English language titles: Needful Things, Coba Ave., Downtown Cancun and the Alma Libre Bookstore on the main square in Puerto Morelos. Finally, the Royal Resorts all have shelves in the lobby where you can leave the books you have finished and exchange them for others. Why not let us know about some of your favorite beach books?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Beach Books - Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalresorts.com\/blog\/news\/beach-books\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beach Books - 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