I don't have an e-reader, tablet or any of that snappy stuff just yet. I'm even ipod free- but I have itunes on my Ruby Red laptop.
As an adult a horrible, horrible, horrible habit has overcome me. And I don't know why. But I read books and forget them almost immediately. Or I start one that I'm not 'into' and then I feel so guilty for not giving it a chance that I hang onto it and keep dragging it the places I drag books and then don't read it. This can go on for MONTHS. The book dragging. Consequently, the bulk of my reading is a frenzied smattering of online garble.
But I think- I think I'm hooked again on luscious paper and the words that roll off of it. Where you skip over words or events you don't recognize instead of googling and getting space cadeted off onto 17 other things.
I just finished Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold- which I actually LIKED and it still took me an idiotic amount of time to finish. And that's with 2 business trips in there which usually means a good hundred or more pages per flight leg (seems like you can't get anywhere out of SeaTac airport without it being a 3+ hour flight!).
But... at the recommendation/insistence/persistence of a co-worker who IM'd a link from Amazon for a book he claims to have read 15 times, I have a new book. I bought it at the University Bookstore in the Mill Creek Towncenter and got me a 745 page novel on the softest paper I have ever touched. The book was somehow considered used so it's 745 pages only broke me of $7.99 and it is in perfect, mint condition without a single dog ear. I'm so distracted by how nice the book feels to the touch that I have barely gotten past the prologue. I'm afraid to crease the spine. It's ridiculous.
It also makes me happy that I didn't read this sucker on an e-reader because I would have never made this inordinant touch connection with the book.
It's Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.
I can't wait to read it. Because it's a good, real, actual book! Hope the story matches... and from what I've googled... it should be!
-Sheryl
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