Do you read more than one book at a time? I have been reading two at a time for quite awhile now. One book is always a real paper one. I have had a pretty big stash of real books from a friend who was downsizing her library at her home. I will read almost anything and it has been great fun to go through about 4 large bins of books before I pass them along to a thrift store. I have a book ready to read for a couple hours every evening while Jim has the television on. I just can't watch tv anymore. I don't like the commercials. I get the latest news from online sources and my entertainment comes from Netflix and Amazon Prime when I want something on to knit to. The other book source I use day or rather nightly is an ebook on my Kindle. Finally, after all these years of marriage and not reading in bed because the light would disturb him, I can read in bed before going to sleep each night. As far as I am concerned ereaders like Kindle may very well be the best invention since sliced bread! Who's with me on this?
So what did I finish this week?
The real book was Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It has been a long time since I read a book with so many twists in it. The villain and victim were never really the same people from one part of the story to the next and at the end they deserved each other as far as I am concerned. Don't want to spoil this so that's all I'm saying here. Just read it if you haven't already. It was a best seller a couple years ago but I don't do a good job of keeping up with the latest top books.
The ebook that I finished this week was Lake City: A Novel by Thomas Kohnstamm. According to the summary on Amazon the story begins like this....
Hunkered down in his childhood bedroom in Seattle's worn-out Lake City neighborhood, idealistic but self-serving striver Lane Bueche licks his wounds and hatches a plot to win back his estranged Manhattanite wife.
In the end you are left not knowing what happens with Lane and his estranged wife but his struggle to get there is well worth the time spent with this book.
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