Are you reading War and Peace... or the first book in the Twilight series?
Okay, so summer is nearly over and even the MPs and children will soon be back from their ridiculously long summer breaks.
Still, there's always a chance some of you will find time to go away for some late summer sun and if you do... I know your secret.
Oh yes - and it's all thanks to a cheeky little survey.... so, drum roll please...
Apparently - according to those survey type expert people at Expedia.co.uk and Time Out London - some people on holiday are taking books they don't actually want to read!
Oh yes, the companies have discovered that 20% of the 2,064 adults they polled chose books by the likes of Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy and Thomas Hardy to take away with them... just so they would appear more intelligent.
Presumably they don't make it through the weighty classics by the pool or on the beach... so they probably just doze underneath them or balance their drinks on top of them.
What a waste of perfectly good reading time!
However - and I like these people the most - 45% of people surveyed said they used the opportunity of going away to read books they were too embarrassed to read at home.
One in ten people don't plan ahead apparently and just grab a bestseller from the airport bookshop - although I admit I am almost one of these people - I always end up buying another book even though I have six in my bag.
The survey concludes by saying, rather randomly, that the most popular travel author out there is Michael Palin. So now you know.
Just don't lug War and Peace with you this summer - it'll probably bust your luggage allowance and you can always use a brolly if you need to keep the sun off your face!
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Vicki Kellaway - a Merseyside reporter who would happily spend her days lounging about and reading - if she won the lottery. Vicki's in a book club, which consists of six girls who meet once a month to discuss their latest tome, drink a few glasses of wine and eat far too much cheese.
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On a recent holiday to Portugal, I got through four books in a week - none of which was particularly weighty but all of which were good fun.
Judging by the books in the holiday rep's 'library of left behind', this survey is a lie, unless Bernard Cornwell and Jackie Collins make people look more intelligent.