Books are Shiny Things

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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.