What are you reading?

BBinNYC · 01-10-2011, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by June

Reading is reading to me. The feel of the book/paper I do not miss when I read a Kindle. I think sometimes our books can *own* us. In that we can accrue so many of them and never touch them again. Pretty soon, there are piles and boxes of them because they won't all fit on the shelves.

Some books, I need to own, but I am finding that I don't need to own or try to figure out where to store the others.

Yes! That is exactly why I started using a Kindle, the storage problem. I soon realized that I actually like the Kindle quite a bit. I love keeping a Wish List and then when I finish a book, I can download the next one in 30 seconds and start on it.

I just finished reading A Tale of Love and Darkness, a memoir by Amos Oz, which I read in connection with a trip to Israel I took with my synagogue (the gay synagogue in NYC). It's a wonderful look at Israel right before and after Independence and it is a chronicle of the eastern European immigration of that period.

Now I'm reading Once Upon A Country, a memoir by Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian who writes about the same subjects as Amos Oz, but from a Palestinian point of view. I'm liking it a lot.

BBinNYC

Kobi · 01-10-2011, 08:09 AM

"I Remember Nothing" by Nora Ephron - unfortunately she remembered to write this.

I wonder how long it will take Kindle type products to put publishers out of business?

Sparkle · 01-10-2011, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Kobi

"I Remember Nothing" by Nora Ephron - unfortunately she remembered to write this.

I wonder how long it will take Kindle type products to put publishers out of business?

I think publishers are safe, regardless of format books take they still need to be edited and published to garner any significant attention. Printers and distributors, however, need to worry; and from a green perspective this is not such a bad thing.

It is the independent book stores I worry for; and even though I own a kindle and I still buy hard copies of books I love and I buy hard copies of books for children and for friends (most of my friends have resisted e-readers thus far).

Starbuck · 01-12-2011, 12:17 AM

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman.

The book also includes The 5 Love Languages Personal Profile so the reader can find out what their primary love language is and share that with their partner.

Now it's written for married hetero couples but we can use which ever term we prefer, right? And there's an additional profile so hy or she can find out what their primary love language is, thereby creating a stronger love bond between the two of you.

Greco · 01-13-2011, 05:34 PM

"Invisible Heroes Survirors of Trauma and How They Heal"

by Belleruth Naparstek

Greco

Semantics · 01-13-2011, 05:44 PM

Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott.

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