Well I finally took the big step of buying a Kindle Paperwhite. We live in a 110 year old warehouse in which my wife does her artwork and we make our home. The downside is the poor archival conditions for storing books. Beyond that I’m just tired of having them around. I’m resolved is to get almost all my reading material through the library. With my post retirement conversion to fiction the library has been he way to go.
Before that my three favorite nonfiction books were:
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Righteous Mind
The Master and His Emissary
So about a year ago the author of the last book, Iain McGilchrist, came out with a new book, The Matter with Things, in two volumes totaling 1500 pages.
But with my increasingly painful and weak arthritic hands I knew I’d never be able to hold it up to read in bed. So I got the Kindle.
I’m loving the Kindle and think Iain’s new book is even better than the last. But when the thirst for more fiction arises and it will, I will look to get it on Kindle too.
Some books novels I’ve read and liked a lot:
All The Light We Cannot See
Cider House Rules
The World According To Garp
A Prayer For Owen Meany
Sea of Poppies and other books in series
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
An Unnecessary Woman
A Gentleman In Moscow
Cutting For Stone
Those jump to mind first but there are others I liked that I dot recall now. I also liked the Robert Pirsig novels,
lots by Anne Tyler, some Elizabeth Strout
and some Tom Robbins.