How about something from our very own literary genius Bubba?.........sci-fi, fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, comedy, tragedy, history, reality, and then some, all rolled up in one.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquitous-Bubba/e/B00AS4QEJY/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

emeraldsoul
David Byrne's "How Music Works" has a nice big pillowy cover, so if it gets boring, you can use it as a pillow.
 
But it won't get boring if you are interested in the history of music and Byrne's interpretations of its value as a commodity.
 
Which means, you've probably already read it.
 
Have a good time!
-Tom
 

I read this on a holiday.  It was a problem because all I wanted to do was get home and back into the studio!
Read it, but hold off until you return!

Hatstand, good call on The Colour of Magic. Sir Pratchett was one of my all time favs. His books top my must read list. 
 
Bit, you've probably already read these because they are older, but I enjoyed David Brin's Uplift series, anything by William Gibson, the Time Patrol (short stories) by Poul Anderson, the Heechee series by Frederick Pohl (no relation to Poul Anderson), and absolutely everything by Ursula LeGuin. 
 
I hope you enjoy reading and relaxing in between the more strenuous activities. 

Hi,
 
Have fun on your vacation is first and foremost ... very important ... and most useful.
 
I do not like to make suggestions in reading, any more than I do for listening, mostly because it is such a subjective touch, and no one knows where it comes from, and that makes it harder to read and relate to.
 
That said ... here are some bits and pieces, and my comments on it.
 
Robert Wyatt -- Different Every Time. Probably one of the most fun things to read, and valuable in terms of learning how to do something else, in music. I kinda look at it, how the heck can RW go back to being a kid on this album, then you listen to it ... son of a gun ... there it is again. Even though it is never discussed as such, the ABC thing on Soft Machine 3 is perfect, and a total "anti-jazz fan" thing, kinda making fun of the whole thing. Instead it made them famous ... !!! His music discussions are priceless ... and please pay attention to what he says about Syd Barrett! You'll absolutely love it! Also an incredible history of the time.
 
My Last Sigh -- Luis Bunuel (the film director) put together this, and it is a bit of history of Spain in the 1930's and 1940's and you can see how some literature survived, or was shot, and sometimes I think that "surrealism" was an intentional way of getting a laugh on the many horrors in front of these folks. A true insight into the crazy details in many of his film, and if you can, get "The Exterminating Angel", "Los Olvidados", "Robinson Crusoe" (his is the funniest!), "Nazarin", "Viridiana", "The discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", "The Phantom of Liberty" ... all of these highly recommended viewing for stuff that is not on the "pop music" side of things, and yet, is as powerful as anything you have ever thought in film, or music.
 
Future Days -- About "krautrock", the harshest term ever for music in Germany, but it is detailed and insane and well done, and is a total history of Germany through music after WW2. Very well done, all around, and the hardest part is getting past the long introduction. But learning that this was as much about each area, just like America ... and how the influences arrived and left on the same boat!

Mesh
How about something from our very own literary genius Bubba?.........sci-fi, fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, comedy, tragedy, history, reality, and then some, all rolled up in one.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquitous-Bubba/e/B00AS4QEJY/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

You missed where he already said that was being taken along (or I would have also suggested it). 
 
Here's a couple more series that I read multiple times when I was younger:
 
Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea (eight total books)
 
Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever Series (three trilogies)

Bert Guy
Yo BF,
I am about 2/3's through this one and its already one of the best books about music I have ever read:
 
https://www.amazon.com/Rest-Noise-Listening-20th-Century/dp/B00115MOUC
 
It has enriched me.
 
Happy New Year and thanks for your service, here,
 
Bert
 
 
 

Yes this is a fun book.  I recommend it as well.

Greg Bear: Blood Music, Darwin's Radio / Darwin's Children, Eon / Eternity
 
Any of the Culture series by Iain M Banks

I forgot about Blood Music. Fantastic book. Good call.

Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle was a great alien invasion tale.
 

ston
Any of the Culture series by Iain M Banks

Not every one in that series.  I wouldn't have minded if I skipped Matter, and The Hydrogen Sonata gives away the ending way too early in the book.
 
On the other hand Player of Games is great and Surface Detail is so far beyond anything I have read in the last four years it's not funny.
 
Also, the first book in the series, Consider Phlebas, was an enjoyable enough book, but left me wondering what all the fuss was about.  Player of Games, the second one, justifies the hype.