Reading – Page 5

For 7 months, I’ve been using Kindle, and for 7 months I’ve been reading only e-books.

I always said I love entering bookstores and smelling books and feeling the pages and covers in my hands. One of my dreams is to have a huge library in my home, with thousands of books … but I confess I haven’t thought about that much since I started reading books on Kindle.

However …

I entered a bookstore today. I’m in Brazil yet and I just like to see the titles that are available here … you see, only a few come down this way and it’s interesting to see which ones. Anyway, I ended up in the little shelf where the books are originals: in English. Hum, I was tempted.

I bought paperbacks of Graceling by Kristin Cashore, and Evernight by Claudia Gray.

I want to see how I feel reading a print copy again. I think I’ll love it. I think I’ll realize I miss print copies.

So, what does that mean?

I don’t want to abandon my Kindle–it’s practical, it carries many titles at once, and when I’m travelling it’s the best. But will I buy print copies too? Will I have some titles as e-books and others as print copies? How do I decide which one to buy?

In the same topic, that shows me the brick and mortar bookstores won’t disappear in a few years as some say. I think the need to feel and smell a physical book won’t go away. Yes, we may buy more e-versions of our preferred books, but, if my excitement over the print books I’m holding in my hands at this moment won’t fade till I’m done with them, I guess that print books won’t die that easily.

Now, let me get’s to the reading part!

Cheers,

I’m not a good blogger. I’m not. There, I said it. Ah, in the same line: I’m not a great tweeter too!

I read many, many blogs and think about parallel topics to write about, but they all voiced out my thoughts, why will I be redundant here?

More important, I’m a shy person. A few years back, I was very sociable and talkative. I’m not like that anymore. And I feel stupid talking and talking and talking about speculative topics—though I like to read them in other blogs.

What else could I say here then?

About my personal life? I’m not really a fan of talking about me … what do you want me to tell you? That I took my daughter and my niece to see Disney on Ice last weekend? That I took my daughter to the doctor yesterday because she has been coughing for the last two weeks? That my daughter didn’t want to go to her ballet class this morning? See, it’s boring. When I’m not writing or reading, my life revolves around my daughter—and my husband, but in a smaller scale.

So, since I’m not very experience in the writing department yet, I decided to go with the “reading” route.
Each month’s end, I’ll talk about the books I read that month …

A warning: May will be filled with books about writing … but the others won’t be so much.

Occasionally, depending on what happens, I’ll blog about writing and my writing …

Talking about my writing: I received the report back from the critic on my latest manuscript and I’m very excited about it! There are a few points to work, of course, but she told me it was very good and that she loved it! Yay!

Well, soon I’ll post about the books I’ve read recently, but previous to May … Then I’ll start a monthly report about it.

Cheers,

OMG! I bought print books!

What to blog about?