What Are You Reading Now?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Of course. But it takes me about 10 seconds more to go to the library site and then download the book through Amazon for free.

I have been listening to a lot of books lately too. For some reason I am loving Joe Hill's book NOS4A2. Probably only a couple of hours left. He is literally the heir to Stephen King.

You live ten seconds away from the library? I would do the same thing if I were you.

[BigPiney]

You live ten seconds away from the library? I would do the same thing if I were you.

No, butI am 5 minutes away. The 10 seconds its how long it takes me to log onto the salt lake library website and search. Then i check out and it appears on my kindle.

[Jeff Lebowski]

No, butI am 5 minutes away. The 10 seconds its how long it takes me to log onto the salt lake library website and search. Then i check out and it appears on my kindle.

Ok, I am going to figure this out. Thanks.

[bluegoose]

No, butI am 5 minutes away. The 10 seconds its how long it takes me to log onto the salt lake library website and search. Then i check out and it appears on my kindle.

I finally took the 2 minutes the other day to figure this out. Pretty slick, once I figured out which one of the 4 family library cards didn't have an outstanding balance on it.

Halfway through my first library checked-out digital book - Born to run.

[bluegoose]

Ok, I am going to figure this out. Thanks.

At our library (and maybe all that do the digital check out?) you have to have an account already before syncing it. In addition to the account number there is also a PIN number on the back that you have to enter. But really, that is it. Takes just a couple of minutes.

[SteelBlue]

I finally took the 2 minutes the other day to figure this out. Pretty slick, once I figured out which one of the 4 family library cards didn't have an outstanding balance on it.

Halfway through my first library checked-out digital book - Born to run.

You will soon notice that our digital offerings are lacking.

[SteelBlue]

Ha, I thought I searched first, my bad. Btw, did you guys see the headline yesterday that Kim Jong Un ousted a top military commander? That has a whole new meaning to me now. The guy is probably in Yodok, eating moths and jerking off an ox as we speak.

A few months ago there was a story about how he had a few people strapped to explosives and blown to bits. One was his old girlfriend, IIRC. Sadly, I think the book is fairly accurate.

Already been executed: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/...ted/index.html

[OrangeUte]

I know you posted this in 2010, I'm just giving you credit so that Lebowski and Piney don't beat up on me. I'm on pace to finish The Book Thief tonight. Great book. I wonder if the movie does it justice?

I am disappointed in the reviews that this movie has gotten.

Thanks for the recommendation of The Orphan Master's Son. Excellent!

[OrangeUte]

You will soon notice that our digital offerings are lacking.

They are better now than 2 years ago. Next time you're in San Francisco swing by their public library and get a library card there. Digital library is awesome and all you need is a California drivers license.

[SteelBlue]

Just finished Tinkers, a brief novel about 3 generations of New England fathers, the Crosbys. The narrative switches between George, who you learn in the book's first sentence is eight days from death and surrounded on his deathbed by friends and family, his father Howard, and his grandfather, a minister. This book is slow and contemplative, and the writing is very rich and descriptive. It's not a book driven by plot, and is much more interesting for its construction and texture. One of those books that you feel as much as you read as George hallucinates and drifts in and out of consciousness and as you read of pivotal moments in the lives of the elder Crosbys.

I was reading an article about the author, Paul Harding, and he has an interesting story. He majored in English at UMass, taking 6 years to get his degree. While there he formed a band and they spent a while touring Europe before breaking up. Harding ended up gaining admission to the Iowa writers workshop and used his time there to finish this novel. It took him 3 years and scores of rejection letters to convince anyone to print it, with publishers and agents saying it was too slow for the modern reader. He finally got it published, and it had only sold 7,000 copies when it was chosen as one of the 3 finalists for the Pulitzer in 2010. The NYT hadn't even bothered to review it, yet it went on to win. The Kindle version is currently $2.99.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Anybody read any of the Robert Massie bios? I am thinking of trying one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Great-Hi...ref=pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345408772/...=IWSQJDXD0TTRO

[happyone]

Anybody read any of the Robert Massie bios? I am thinking of trying one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Great-Hi...ref=pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345408772/...=IWSQJDXD0TTRO

Both are very good. If you haven't read it, I would also recommend his one on Nicholas and Alexandra.
http://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Alexa...eywords=massie


my thoughts on Catherine

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/516480046

[Jeff Lebowski]

Both are very good. If you haven't read it, I would also recommend his one on Nicholas and Alexandra.
http://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Alexa...eywords=massie


my thoughts on Catherine

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/516480046

I knew you would come through on this one.

I think I will start with the book on Peter the Great and go from there.

[SteelBlue]

Continuing with the 2010 Pulitzer Fiction finalists, just finished Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet. It's a collection of short stories that each involves a "celebrity" and their contact with an animal. Millet is really funny, (Madonna's inner thoughts after shooting a pheasant for instance) but generally it was an experiment that didn't do a lot for me. I did learn that many if not most of the stories were inspired by real events. There was one about Thomas Edison electrocuting an elephant in 1903 and having it filmed. It turns out he really did so as part of a campaign to discredit Tesla/Westinghouse and scare people regarding their alternating current. Anyway, the book was entertaining and clever, but in the end forgettable. I'm guessing it finished a distant third, but I have yet to finish the other finalist.

[Donuthole]

So I downloaded "The Road" onto my kindle from my local library. I read about a page and a half. As I was reading, I noticed it seemed to be missing a ton of punctuation. Commas were practically non-existent. The run-on sentences were ridiculous. I figured this was probably an OCR problem when it converted to electronic format.

So I hopped on Amazon and read the first couple pages there. Apparently it's not an OCR issue. Is the entire book that way, or is this merely setting tone in the initial chapter? I'm not sure I can take an entire book of crappily-worded, run-on sentences.