I had a strange experience at Barnes & Noble yesterday. I had gone there after my interview to reward myself. I wound up getting a couple magazines but with every book I looked at I kept thinking "I can get this cheaper on the Kindle." I'm not saying I'll never buy a paper book again -- I collect my favorite authors, especially historical mystery ones -- but for the casual reading it makes more sense to get it for a little less.
I've been checking out the mystery list DorothyL again and there's a big rage going on about e-book readers and e-books. What gets me is that there is this complete black and white thing, especially for people who declare they'll never ever read digital. Like there's no other option, all or nothing. Those who've adopted the e-reader haven't given up paper books at all. Does listening to audiobooks mean you'll never read a paper book again? Nope.
We had lunch at MacKenzie River Pizza today to celebrate a birthday of one of the crew. I drove us because everyone wanted to ride in Moby Dick. Other than a not-great parking job, it was fine. They liked it and actually dubbed it "TheDream Machine" and then "The Mystery Machine" because I like mysteries to which I was reminded of "those meddling kids!" of Scooby Doo.
The book that hijacked my current read, becoming the new current read, has now been hijacked itself so now I have an even newer current read. THE COOKBOOK COLLECTOR by Allegra Goodman. Here is a description:
Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment.Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much—as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way.Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.
It was published in July and has 416 pages. It's a stand alone novel.
I don't have anything to watch on tv so maybe I'll read tonight.
I got up a couple times last night to look at the Perseids comet shower. First, at 12:30, it was too cloudy. Then at 2:45 I went out and was so tired and my alarm was going to go off at 4:30 I said to myself that this was ridiculous, I needed sleep more. So I haven't seen anything yet this year. I maybe too cloudy tonight -- it's already overcast now -- because they're prediciting rain overnight and a high tomorrow of 68 so something has to move in and stay for a while. I may not be able to watch it this year. Bah. And I'm already tired. :)
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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