Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

My New Toy

My birthday is coming up in a couple weeks.  Since M. has to be out of town for it for an academic workshop that he's been invited to participate in putting on and since I was headed out on the road again, he bought me an early birthday present on Saturday.
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I've been wanting a Kindle for months!  First downloads: The Complete Works of L.M. Montgomery, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, and The Decameron.

I'm at my mom's house in Louisiana for the week.  The good news is that she finally had a follow up appointment with a specialist and he believes that surgery can be avoided.  The plan is to treat her lower back problems with a series of injections over the next couple of months.  In the meantime, though, she's still in pain and is not supposed to lift much of anything, and I thought that since I'm on "spring break" I could help her out around the house.  My plan is to do a bit of cleaning, get some work done on a publication project, and grade a mountain of midterms while my mom is at work during the day.  Then I'll make dinner and we can hang out together in the evenings.

But with the light on my kindle cover I may have come up against an unanticipated snag: the temptation to continue reading late into the night while bundled up in bed.  Between my mom catching me doing that last night and the fact that I'm reading Anne of Green Gables, I feel like I'm about 10 years old again....  

Do you have a Kindle?  What are you currently reading for pleasure?