Well, our last Book Club selection was so not a hit. It was The Jewish Detective Union and most of us could just not get into it although one keener ploughed right to the end.
The current selection is The Birth of Venus and most of us are enjoying it so far.
Got my Kindle, see how this is going to be an expensive habit.
Last two - Mockingjay, which is the last Hunger Games book, and which I enjoyed.
Good Enough to Eat, by Stacey Ballis - She was a recommendation from Jen Lancaster (they're best friends), and her book...wait for it...HAD A POST OBESE MAIN CHARACTER. Whose life did NOT turn out perfectly after the weight loss! And who still struggles sometimes with food issues! And who starts dating only to fear getting naked in front of her new beau because she has...loose skin!! The honesty about what after-weight-loss life is like was so refreshing.
Now reading Songs for a Teenage Nomad, which was written by my high school drama teacher, and is about high school students - given that she obviously borrowed SOME from my school for setting and names, it's like a crazy high school flashback.
Got my Kindle, see how this is going to be an expensive habit.
Last two - Mockingjay, which is the last Hunger Games book, and which I enjoyed.
Good Enough to Eat, by Stacey Ballis - She was a recommendation from Jen Lancaster (they're best friends), and her book...wait for it...HAD A POST OBESE MAIN CHARACTER. Whose life did NOT turn out perfectly after the weight loss! And who still struggles sometimes with food issues! And who starts dating only to fear getting naked in front of her new beau because she has...loose skin!! The honesty about what after-weight-loss life is like was so refreshing.
Now reading Songs for a Teenage Nomad, which was written by my high school drama teacher, and is about high school students - given that she obviously borrowed SOME from my school for setting and names, it's like a crazy high school flashback.
Amanda~you can get free books for your kindle. They're things in the public domain (old books) or things that are recent that people can't find publishers for. Google free books and you'll see several sites. I can't remember what one I use the most but I think it's Feedbooks, but there seem to be a lot more sites now than when I got my kindle last year.
I love my Sony digital book, I can check ebooks out of the library! The selection is spotty and very random, but I would assume as more books get digitized, the selection will get better!
I just finished reading The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst (she wrote Dogs of Babel) and I loooooved it.
Oh, my free to paid book ratio is very high - so far I've bought 3, and downloaded 15 others that were free. I'm definitely taking advantage of the free stuff, but "one click" purchasing of a book that appeals to me...well, it's a little dangerous!
Oh, my free to paid book ratio is very high - so far I've bought 3, and downloaded 15 others that were free. I'm definitely taking advantage of the free stuff, but "one click" purchasing of a book that appeals to me...well, it's a little dangerous!
Ah yes, EBOOKS. i think i would miss the turning of the actual pages. and I love putting my bookmark in a book to see how far into the story i am, haha. but my honey wants a kindle thingy, and lots of books at your fingertips does sound pretty cool... maybe i should read more about them!
Anyone ever read Siddhartha? I've always heard such good things about it, but I read it last week and found it predictable, although full of lovely quotes on living. Maybe things were lost in translation? I'm starting 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez today. It's supposed to be phenomenal, i'm excited
Shasha - I thought I would miss page turning too. Turns out - no. And Kindle has a progress bar that tracks your progress through a book, which I love.
Winding up The Hunger Games tonight (and yes alinnell, it is good). Next up Young Woman and the Ocean, about Gertrude Ederle (the first woman to swim the English Channel).
I'll get around to reading the Hunger Games sequels, but once I'm past Young Woman (and I have one other book, a medical thriller whose title escapes me at the moment), I'll have to read Play Dead (about zombie football players: just the thing for October what with Halloween and football season), then once Halloween is past I'll probably start reading Christmas stuff
