What are you reading?

[Cal Amari]

I'll have to try The Man Who Fell to Earth, all I had read from him before was Queen's Gambit and The Hustler, so Mockingbird seemed way out of left field, but I loved it.

I'll have to check out the Bradbury story too, always loved Fahrenheit 451, and A Sound of Thunder

I tried an eReader briefly but found the same difficulty with reading actual books- time to do it, especially with 3 kids. The last decade or so I've been nearly only listening to audio books, some on cd, and now just digitally. There's a couple apps supported by my local library, so my free public library card gets me access to something like 35 downloads a month from each app, I only use maybe 8 to 12 a month combined, depending on the length. It's great though, i listen while doing housework, yardwork, water changes, driving, grocery shopping, lunch breaks, sitting watching baseball practice etc.

I also recently finished the History of Money by David McWilliams and thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[jjohnwm]

For me, E-reading is as far from "real" reading as I am willing to go. I simply do not enjoy being read to.

I want to mention something that I may have touched on before; as usual, the Search function is acting up for me, so I can't easily check if I have done so.

There is a wonderful website called Delanceyplace.com that I discovered quite by accident years ago. The tagline beneath their name is "Eclectic excerpts delivered to your email every day". And that's all there is to them; you get an email each day from them that contains a few paragraphs or a short chapter lifted from some book, written by somebody, sometime, about something. There is no unifying theme behind these selections, except that they all seem to be non-fiction works. They can be related to literally anything, and that is their charm. It's like an ice-cream store that offers a free taste of a different flavour every day, and delivers it right to your door. They provide links to some retailers that will happily sell you the entire book if you wish, and whatever kickback the website gets goes to children's literacy charities.

Their email each morning is one of the very, very few to which I actually look forward, and which I usually enjoy reading. And if the choix-du-jour does not appeal to you, well, you've invested a few seconds to learn about something new to dislike; always a good thing!

 

[Cal Amari]

I'll have to check that out, sounds delightful.