Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Happy New Year!

Yeah, it's been some time! I've been a very neglectful blogger, I know! Between holiday bustle, winter colds and the slog of work, my Kindle has also been somewhat neglected too *shock* I know!

For the past, um, 20 or so years I've read something every single day. Over the past few years, I read more & more - read with morning coffee, when the family watches TV, in the queue at the supermarket. With Kindle & text to speech, I'd even be reading in the car or when weeding the garden.

But about 2 months ago, I got into a reading funk. For the first time ever, I didn't want to read. I got a bit worried. I downloaded a bunch of books. Then I hit the freebies (it could get expensive!). About the best I could manage was a couple of blogs and the Readers Digest (which is pretty good on Kindle, BTW).

Some of the freebies kinda depressed me. There are a lot of not-so-good books out there, to be polite about it, and I seemed to download each and every one of them. ugh! Bad horror, cheesy dramas and the oddest thing - the Christian fiction hiding as a thriller. Don't get me wrong - I've nothing against Christian fiction, or any religious fiction. Just that if I wanted to read it, I'd read it. If I want to avoid it, I do that too. So getting halfway through a couple of thrillers - and even a horror - recently to have it turn into a pious ranting wasn't my cup of tea. And I promptly deleted them.

"Next!"

So what have I read? Wow, very little!! I did finish a few Cesar Millan (Dog Whisperer) books (Kindle edition) which were good reads. But I didn't even start my long awaited Under The Dome yet! I KNOW!! I told you - major reading funk.

Right now, I am reading The Keeper, by Sarah Langan that I got as a freebie ages ago. It's pretty creepy, actually. Plus I am re-reading the fabulous Hunger Games with my 10 year old daughter. Love that she loves so many of the same books as I do! She's recently finished Oz Chronicles trilogy and keeps begging me to write to RW Ridley to find out about book #4!

3 comments :

  1. Suggestion? Check the Steig Larssen trilogy, beginning with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. (Not sure about Kindle edition, but I read the 2nd one on my Kindle.) If you enjoyed Distant Cousin, The Girl series will have you chewing your nails. Check the reviews, at least.

    Cheers!

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  2. I would delete it, too. My new release, Angela 1: Starting Over my come from a background of Christian values, but it never preaches or proselytises. It just a good story, period, the first in a series of three set in a coastal Texas high school. If interested in knowing more, please click on my name and follow the link to my website. Thanks!

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  3. Hi Al! Happy New Year to you!
    Yep, read 'em and loved 'em. Eagerly awaiting #3 (march, isn't it?)

    Hi David! I'll check it out, sounds like a good one for the kids. On the Kindle yet?

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