Showing posts with label Nook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nook. Show all posts

Friday, April 3, 2015

Gotta Love those E-readers!



I am totally crazy about my Nook, even though it doesn't perform up to specs.  I could fix it, but that would involve re-registering it, which would clear out all of the books I side-loaded to the 32 gig card I added on--and it might not be possible to reload them, for reasons I don't want to get into here.  Anyway, I've had it for a few years, and I have almost a thousand books, most of which were picked up for less than five dollars (probably a hundred or so were free).  Yeah, I read a lot.

One of the things I love about it is that, thanks to the daily specials, I've been introduced to a lot of writers that I wouldn't have picked up on in print.  A while back I bought Faye Kellerman's The Ritual Bath.  It was the daily special to promote her latest book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series.


I don't know about you, but I like to learn stuff when I read a mystery, and this one has a lot to offer, in this case about Judaism and the daily issues that arise for the seriously religious.  With that and the relationship that  develops between the two main characters, I was able to take a mental vacation from everything that normally has my brain on the worrier's exercise wheel.  
If this sounds good to you, try it for yourself.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Rita Dove's The First Book

Cover of "Bride of the Rat God"
Cover of Bride of the Rat God

This is now one of my favorite poems.  It's so simple, yet it says everything it needs to say about that moment when you first hit upon the book that turns you into a reader.  I'm pretty much a "narrative junkie," with a two-book-a-day habit, and since the semester started, I'm about 30 books behind.  Yeah, I'm reading a lot for school, but it's not like I'm reading stories.  And I've gotten really cranky over not having the time to read for myself.  This is the reason I stopped posting for a while:  I needed to read. 

So, what did I read?  I re-read a couple of favorites, Barbara Hambly's Bride of the Rat God (since it just came out on Nook-- I love that thing!) and Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (another Nook download; I read this in fourth grade and it's still as good as I remember), as well as four free-Friday Nook ebooks.  I've been reading Norwegian mysteries by Jo Nesbo; they are fascinating and disturbing.  My sister loaned me her Hamish MacBeth mysteries (by M. C. Beaton), and they should take me through to the holidays.

I feel so much better now.
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