I like listening to audiobooks on long drives. I had hard time reading classics so I tend to listen to them instead. Especially late 1800 classics like Moby Dick or Dracula. The language is just different enough that if I read it, I’d get bogged down in the words but if I listen to it, […]
I love my Kindle. I pre-ordered Charlaine Harris’ Deadlocked, the 12th book in the Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mystery Series. On 4/30, at 9:45pm PDT, I got an email saying that my Amazon account was billed and that I could download the book. This is “a day early” for me since it was published May 1.
“Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn’t conceive of any other condition” This was the best line in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A late encounter with the enemy.” Via a Facebook exchange with a friend, it was said that David Sedaris liked Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard
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The second book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency is Tears of the Giraffe. When I finished the first book, I immediately queued this book for download when it was available. Did I mention that I read many of my books from the local library, using my Kindle? The story develops the characters and
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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays by David Sedaris was a recent read. I was accustomed to reading his non-fiction stories and for some reason I though this book would be more of the same. So during the first story, I was very confused. I finally figured out this was fiction. Each chapter was a short
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