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oooooooooh! Danger Danger is right. I used to go to the library and check out two books every two weeks, one trash and one literature (or semi literature at least). Now I have a virtual library at my fingertips.
I have actually been pretty good and not spent much money on books, but I admit to downloadig a bunch of freebies from Pixel of Ink, Book Basset and Project Gutenberg. Plus my mom and I have a linked account which means whenever either of us buys or downloads something the other one has access to it. This means I won't be downloading Fifty Shades - can't let my mom know I'd read THAT. Or maybe she has to be careful not to order it so I don't know she would read something like that, ha ha.
I have read a lot of classic (or will be classic someday) books these past 10 months:
Little Women
Treasure Island
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Gulliver's Travels
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Help
The Pillars of the Earth
And a bunch of fun sometimes mindless freebies, mostly historical romance or mystery romance genres. Plus I still check out books from the library until I exhaust their supply of Johanna Lindsey (mostly the Malory series), Stephanie Plum series and Nero Wolfe novels.
I just started reading Earth Abides by George R Stewart, which was highly recommended by my brother who told me our dad took a class from Stewart when he was at Cal.
So, are you reading anything interesting? Any resolutions to read more in the New Year? I am always looking for new ideas.
I finished Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn last month. I LOVE her stuff. I love it so much that I purposely drag out reading it because I don't want it to end!
ReplyDeleteI have a really short attention span. So if I'm not into a book right away, I'm done. Tried to read The Shack and Incendiary. Both sit unfinished on my desk.
I'm vowing to read more in 2013!
I try to give books a good chance, but with the limited time I have these days I have started bailing on books more if it isn't doing it for me. One of the advantages to reading for pleasure versus reading for a grade. I might have stuck out For Whom the Bell Tolls a bit longer, but it was just too grim and showed no signs of getting better.
ReplyDeleteI think one of my SIL's mentioned Gillian Flynn, I'll have to check it out.
Keep a watch on Amazon, they often have bargin books and free books.
ReplyDeleteI really like Barbara Kingsolver and just put her new book, "Flight Behavior," on my Nook. I can highly recommend "The Poisonwood Bible," which I read in two days. I also love, love, love Anne Tyler. I'm going to have to get "Gone Girl," as I've seen so many excellent reviews of it.
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