Well, now that 2010 is a bit more than half finished, I thought it might be a good idea to trot out my Best and Worst list as it stands thus far. As of today, I’ve read 65 books this year. (I haven’t published that many reviews, though. I keep a bunch of them queued [...]
I have a few favorite reading spots around the house. First, there’s my leather recliner in the living room. This is a comfy chair that I can curl up in during the daytime, when everyone else is at work or school. I love sitting here because I can take advantage of the daytime sun streaming [...]
Before the Internet, anytime you wanted to do any research at all, you probably had to go to the library. I’m not only talking about research for school projects; I’m also talking about when you wanted to find out such things as what beauty experts consider the best eye wrinkle cream to be or which [...]
A couple of friends have been asking me about the best way to read digital texts. I mentioned the portable readers that are on the market, but they don’t want to pay several hundred dollars for a device that does nothing except read books. And, they can’t imagine trying to read on their phone screens [...]
Every time I go to the gym, I see people reading books and magazines while they’re exercising. I always bring in audiobooks on my iPod, but I’ve never tried actually reading a book while at the gym. But since I was almost finished with something on my Kindle, I decided to take this instead of [...]