Books are Shiny Things

[verbranden]

So after technolusting after the Kindle for eons, I finally broke down and bought, well, not the Kindle but the Barnes & Noble nook. Or at least put in an order for one as they're currently back ordered. Mine should ship around February 12th. Hylke of course, had to get one too. He doesn't read as much as I do, but he loves shiny technology things and he has been reading more lately. Mostly Neil Gaiman. We decided to go with the nook because it allows users to lend books to each other, browse for free at Barnes & Noble stores (we have one just a few minutes away!), and other things we liked over the Kindle (sorry Amazon).

The only thing I really wish an ereader had was to somehow incorporate the dead tree books I already own, because I have so many I've yet to read. So I am currently spending most of my free time trying to catch up before they are rendered obsolete in about a month.

I'm also noticing a trend about the books I'm currently reading. I'm almost finished with Mary, Called Magdalene, and I have Abudance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette which I had dipped my toes into when I bought it on vacation. At work, I keep The Last Empress, having relatively recently finished reading Empress Orchid for lunch break reading. Anyways, I definitely recommend them all. That said, once I finish these, who knows. Probably those Gaiman books once Hylke is through with them.

Comments

[rdallyn.livejournal.com]

I really liked The Passion of Mary Magdalene by Elizabeth Cunningham--it's amazing. It has a controversial interpretation of her, so it's probably not for everyone depending on one's beliefs, though.

[verbranden.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'll definitely be keeping that in mind once I get the nook in. I am now allowing myself to buy any more dead tree books in the interim. :P

[rdallyn.livejournal.com]

I like that I can use my iPod Touch as a means to read e-books. Also, fanfiction, haha.

[verbranden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've had the Kindle app for a while now, but I only got free books because I was still waffling about Kindle vs. nook. I'm actually currently reading Little Women on that. XD I just downloaded the Barnes & Noble version the other day, but I'm a bit nervous about setting it up cause I don't want to make conflicts with my nook, so I was waiting until I got that to even try. Because if there's some way to screw it up, I know I will find it and make it spectacular.

I was doing a bit more looking into the book you suggested, and it seems radically different than the one I linked above. I'm not of a Christian bent so I take little personal offense to people creatively bending their mythos, but the figure of Mary Magdalene has always interested me. The one I am reading now is more tradition in the fact that Mary is indeed Jewish, but she is shown as being rather progressive for her time and for the most part, being around people who were as much as she could before she began following Jesus.