Kindling

Well it's now one month and five days since my Kindle purchase and I love it!

So what have I read to date?

A Guest at the Feast, by Colm Tóibín
The Stranger's Child, by Alan Hollinghurst
The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin
The Skeleton in the Closet, by MC Beaton
Locked In, by Kerry Wilkinson
The Etymologicon, by Mark Forsyth
A whole edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

At the same time I have finished off a paperback copy of He Kills Coppers, by Jake Arnott that I was part way through.

I'm about halfway through Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín, which I started this morning.

Ok - so I had two weeks in the 'States with train journeys of eight and five hours; and flights of one and ten hours; oh and a six hour lay-over so perhaps not a typical month...

What do I love about it?

It's light - sounds obvious, but really makes a difference when carrying it around or reading one handed on the tube.

It's small - also obvious, but it fits in my coat pocket and can be gripped in the same hand as a bag when moving between train and tube.

It allows for mood changes - choose which book you fancy based on how tired you are, rather than which one you remembered to bring.

When you don't have to worry about saving your place, you're more likely to keep reading right up to your stop or when stood waiting to board a train - those extra pages soon add up!

So any gripes?

Not every book has chapters or sections marked on the bottom of the page - as someone who likes to flick ahead to count how many pages to the end if the chapter, this is a shame.

And... I genuinely can't think if anything else!

So what about the books themselves? More on that in a future blog!