What are you reading at the moment?

Books are one of my favourite ways to spend time (apart from doing Body Attack classes, of course). If I have had a pretty social day, it can be nice to not have to talk to anyone and to be able to use my imagination by escaping into a good read.

Over the Christmas and New Year, people often get an hour or two to chill and read or snooze after a big lunch. Many people reach for a good book, often one that they've been given for Chrissie.

Here is a list of some of the books I have read recently and would recommend.


• Mama Mia: A Memoir of Mistakes, Magazines and Motherhood by Mia Freedman
This book was given to me for my birthday by one of my beautiful friends, Emiley.


• Never Say Die by Professor Chris O'Brien
Unfortunately Prof. O'Brien passed away this year, but it tells of his struggle against a brain tumour after working as a head and neck cancer surgeon for over 20 years.


• Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert
This author wrote one of my fave titles Eat, Pray, Love so I was curious to see how this book compared to her best-seller. Fortunately I was not disappointed- Gilbert explores the institution of marriage all over the Western world and challenges our modern conceptions of what it means to wed.


• How To Break Your Own Heart by Maggie Alderson
I love love love Maggie Alderson’s weekly column in The Good Weekend and also found this book oozed her easy-to-read tone and was filled with likeable characters who were facing big changes in their lives.

Did you get a great book from Santa? What have you read recently - or maybe not so recently - that you'd recommend?