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It seems I'm getting the kindle deals of the day more often than not However, I don't know what to think of it not having German books as deals at all... Germany has a fixed book price agreement that means ebooks are mostly as expensive as buying the paperbacks. My mom is a little dissapointed since she likes to read in English but has to use a dictionary from time to time and it's much slower reading for her. However, I bought her a kindle paperwhite and she can use the dictionary quite well with that touch screen. I guess I'll put some of my books on her kindle too.
Anyhoo' the last books I downloaded are the following: The Bloodletter's Daughter by Linda Lafferty Stone Maidens by Lloyd Devereux Richards Bone River by Megan Chance Death of a Gentle Lady by M.C. Beaton (I know it's no. 28 in a series but I thought I might give it a try) The Spa Decameron by Fay Weldon Catcher, Caught by Sarah Collins Honenberger
Anybody read anything from these? Are they any good?
I'm 60% through The Passage and I'm looking forward to the other books now!
It seems I'm getting the kindle deals of the day more often than not However, I don't know what to think of it not having German books as deals at all... Germany has a fixed book price agreement that means ebooks are mostly as expensive as buying the paperbacks. My mom is a little dissapointed since she likes to read in English but has to use a dictionary from time to time and it's much slower reading for her. However, I bought her a kindle paperwhite and she can use the dictionary quite well with that touch screen. I guess I'll put some of my books on her kindle too.
Anyhoo' the last books I downloaded are the following: The Bloodletter's Daughter by Linda Lafferty Stone Maidens by Lloyd Devereux Richards Bone River by Megan Chance Death of a Gentle Lady by M.C. Beaton (I know it's no. 28 in a series but I thought I might give it a try) The Spa Decameron by Fay Weldon Catcher, Caught by Sarah Collins Honenberger
Anybody read anything from these? Are they any good?
I'm 60% through The Passage and I'm looking forward to the other books now!
MM, I just looked up German books with Kindle format on our library's site and found only five, but eighteen if I open the search to include Kindle books available from other sources (still through the library, but on inter-library loan). If she isn't restricted to Kindle only, the numbers increase. I use the library exclusively for my Kindle reading and have yet to run out of books to read from that venue. You might want to see what your library offers.
As for your list, the only author I recognized was M.C. Beaton and she is a fun, light fiction author that I've often used to help lighten up after reading something heavier. Though she's written many, I've never found it necessary to read them in sequence.
I've been sick for the past couple of days and so chose to do a re-read of a couple of older books by John Lescroart, Guilt from 1997 and The Oath from 2003. Had no recollection of the story lines at all so it was almost like having something new to read. Since the stories are set in San Francisco they did have be feeling a bit nostalgic for life in the Bay Area, especially the foods available there as compared to very rural VA.
Hard to stay focused when you have to stop every page and a half to blow your nose. I can now get through about 5 pages so I guess I'm getting better, slowly but surely.
So I went on vacation for a week and left you all unattended and you filled up nine pages of posts!!!
Good thing someone is doing some reading, because I am certainly not contributing much to the consumption right now. I am slowly, slowly, slowly reading Winds of War. I enjoy it, but can't read it quickly. I am hampered by my lack of confidence in my European geography and keep wanting to look at a map. Last night I was reading on the plane ride home and had the seat back screen showing me the tiny little plane flying across the United States and I kept wanting to swipe at the screen to move the view from the US to Europe so I could confirm how big Poland was, how far from Cracow to Warsaw... Um - nope the seat back screen is not an ipad!
So, reading and learning and wishing I had paid more attention in 10th grade.
Artie wanted to join that band -- his namesake -- but I've banned guitars in our new home.
By the way, Artie Fufkin is the name of a character, played by Paul Shaffer, in the movie This Is Spinal Tap. That's how my Artie got his name... named by J of DandJ's old fame.
___As for your list, the only author I recognized was M.C. Beaton and she is a fun, light fiction author that I've often used to help lighten up after reading something heavier. Though she's written many, I've never found it necessary to read them in sequence.
Well now, I guess I will have to look into getting some of her (his?) books as I too suffer frequently from just not being able to read. I think it's gotten progressively worse over the past few years. I was always a big waster of time on the internet, and now with a laptop on my lap as I recline on the couch, the internet just sucks me in and I never actually get up to get the book to read. I share this here in hope of getting help.
I really do love to read but I just seem to not find the time as much as I should. Even when I love a book, it seems to take me forever. I love this forum because it really has helped me find so many great books.
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However, I don't know what to think of it not having German books as deals at all... Germany has a fixed book price agreement that means ebooks are mostly as expensive as buying the paperbacks. My mom is a little dissapointed since she likes to read in English but has to use a dictionary from time to time and it's much slower reading for her. However, I bought her a kindle paperwhite and she can use the dictionary quite well with that touch screen. I guess I'll put some of my books on her kindle too.
