my grandparents bought me a kindle for christmas. i love it. i was a little unsure about kindles when they first came out because there is just something about the weight and feel and smell of a book. that and i'm a book-keeper. only really really shitty books get passed on or donated (left behind anyone?). i have the majority of my college textbooks still. that said, i'm reading a LOT more with the kindle because it can go ANYWHERE. i've been reading in line at the bank, waiting for parker to get out of school, in bed... it holds a bajillion books and in an effort to avoid spending a bajillion dollars this year on books i'm trying to buy only one book a month and read free books once i've finished. my first purchase was stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach. a quick and comical ready. *thumbs up* now i'm reading venus in furs by leopold von sacher-masoch. it has curious little passages such as the following:
'why not?' she said, 'and take note of what i am about to say to you. never feel secure with the woman you love, for there are more dangers in woman's nature than you imagine. women are neither as good as their admirers and defenders maintain, nor as bad as their enemies make them out to be. woman's character is characterless. the best woman will momentarily go down into the mire, and the worst unexpectedly rises to deeds of greatness and goodness and puts to shame those that despise her. no woman is so good or so bad, but that at any moment she is capable of the most diabolical as well as the most divine, of the filthiest as well as the purest, thoughts, emotions, and actions. in spite of all the advances in civilization, woman has remained as she came out of the hand of nature. she has the nature of a savage, who is faithful or faithless, magnanimous or cruel, according to the impulse that dominates at the moment. throughout history it has always been a serious deep culture which has produced moral character. man even when he is selfish or evil always follows principles, woman never follows anything but impulses. don't ever forget that, and never feel comfortable with the woman you love.'
my grandparents bought me a kindle for christmas. i love it. i was a little unsure about kindles when they first came out because there is just something about the weight and feel and smell of a book. that and i'm a book-keeper. only really really shitty books get passed on or donated (left behind anyone?). i have the majority of my college textbooks still. that said, i'm reading a LOT more with the kindle because it can go ANYWHERE. i've been reading in line at the bank, waiting for parker to get out of school, in bed... it holds a bajillion books and in an effort to avoid spending a bajillion dollars this year on books i'm trying to buy only one book a month and read free books once i've finished. my first purchase was stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach. a quick and comical ready. *thumbs up* now i'm reading venus in furs by leopold von sacher-masoch. it has curious little passages such as the following: