Okay, I can't resist any longer, I'm going to read Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Who am I to resist a Trappist monastery!

SHOCKED by your spoiler for Lord Hornblower, though. Contemplating whether I really want to give the series a go now that I know this... Your reviews have been less than enthusiastic, too. Maybe if I attempt a Napoleonic naval series, it should be Aubrey-Maturin.