I researched the e-readers and decided on a Nook. I read a few books on it and found it very acceptable. Nice and small, easy to hold, a good feel (more important than you might think). Then Husband got the eelectronics itch and came home with an iPad. I'm sold. The iPad has color, it's a better siz...

This is a sprawling book. Cast of thousands. A million stories. It reminds me of the Beatles’ Abbey Road, second side (speaking vinyl-ly). I always thought that the “songs” on that side weren’t finished. They were snippets that they probably had lying around; they dusted them off and cobbled them to...

I Was Amelia Earhart - Jane Mendelsohn. I read this years ago and sorry to say can't remember much, but I do remember it was dreamy and a little profound, and whenever I think about it I hear ocean waves. The Maytrees - Annie Dillard. Not so much the sea, but Cape Cod. Novel about a marriage and unr...

Theomanic, I had to look up Henkel Manning, and couldn't find a thing. Then Amazon gently corrected me to Henning Mankel. If that was a test, did I pass?? Judging from the blurbs on Amazon about Mankel's stories, his protagonist, Kurt Wallander, sounds a little the detective in Indridason's books, E...

Reading right now - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, by Allan Gurganus. Little more than halfway through, I like it fine. I'm having a little trouble "getting" Lucy. She's not falling into place like really well-drawn characters usually do. But the story (stories, really - there'...

Thanks for the welcome. Theomanic, I've read several by Arnaldur Indridason. They were my first try at mysteries. Also read Independent People by Haldor Laxness (not a mystery). What they all seemed to have in common was emotion. Or lack of emotion. Or maybe the emotion that the lack of it stirred i...

Hello to the forum. I'm typing on a quiet night in Northern California. I'm 54-1/2 years old and love to read. A few months ago I canceled Netflix and decided to get away from watching movies, cause if I'm going to sit on a couch like a lump it should be while doing something worthwhile - like readi...