My Kindle

Darrell, bless his little pea pickin' heart, gave me a kindle for Christmas.  All my friends and family know how much I love to read so they also know this is the most incredible gift I could receive. 

I had been throwing the idea around for sometime and almost bought one myself but something kept holding me back. You see, I love my books.  They aren't inanimate objects to me.  They are my friends, I flip through the pages tenderly and caress them like a lover.  I was having difficulty seeing that same relationship with a hunk of plastic.

I have finished my first book on the kindle and have started two more.  (Yes two, one for research and the other for pleasure.) 

I have found I do miss the smell and touch of a real book but there are advantages of the kindle.  If I decide I want to read a book I do not own I no longer have to run to the mall or get on the computer to order the book then wait for its delivery.  I can order the book through my kindle and have it in mere seconds.  AMAZING!  Plus kindle has over 7,000 free books.  Most of them are the classics.  I had already decided to start reading the classics just to find out what has made them so special for all these years. Now I can make this discovery for free.

I just finished reading The Secret Garden by Frances Halcyon Burnett (a classic) and have started reading Alice In Wonderland (another classic) both free.  Next I plan to read JRR Tolkien trilogy The Lord of the Ring.  I am told that will take quite a while to read.

Here are a few other books on my wish list.. Most of them I can get free.  Hooray for free!

The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Neffenegger
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
To Kill A Mockingbird -  Harper Lee
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Chronicles of Narnia -C.S. Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
The Inferno - Dante
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Three Musketeers - Abercandre Dumas
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Count of Monte Carlo - Alexandra Dumas
The Kite Runner - Khalid Hosseni
A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's Court - Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Eyre

That should keep me busy for a while.  Happy Reading!