Confessions of a Book Addict

I follow Barnes & Noble on Facebook together with today they posted a summertime reading challenge. Details here . I dear this idea! I've been reading since I was rattling little, together with e'er wondered why other kids didn't create the same. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of kids await at summertime reading equally a chore, instead of equally a joy. For me, summertime reading is 1 of the best ways to continue kids learning together with growing piece they aren't inwards school. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of schools get got laid reading lists of books kids get got to read, but others make a make of books together with that's my favorite manner of doing it. I intend that, instead of forcing kids into a specific direction amongst their reading equally they create during school, kids should endure left to explore their ain interests inwards the summer. My fiancé Chris likes to rate me the floor of how he loved to read nonfiction on his ai...

I never idea I would bask reading a majority on a screen. Computer screens, iPods, fifty-fifty the DS "game" that comes amongst a ton of populace domain books for you lot to read - none of it always appealed to me. I stare at a calculator concealment all 24-hour interval at work. I prefer the tangible pages of newspaper leafed (or to a greater extent than oftentimes right away glued) together, folding opened upwardly at but the correct place, turning pages amongst my fingers instead of on a concealment (which I create know you lot plow amongst your fingers, but this is a dissimilar sensation). Recently I've started reading eBooks, by together with large because I tin larn the populace domain books I've been wanting to read for free. Saving coin is difficult plenty without wanting to driblet hundreds of dollars on books all the time. I don't accept a Nook or a Kindle or anything. I create accept an iPod Touch that tin create eBooks, but I don't purpose ...

This yesteryear calendar week inwards reading has been difficult. Almost no progress has been made inwards the book I don't like , but inwards other areas I've been moving along quite nicely. Last Mon I finished A Princess of Mars yesteryear Edgar R. Burroughs which was a costless ebook on Suvudu . In finishing A Princess of Mars (and fifty-fifty upon starting it), I realized I had read it earlier in addition to never noted it. I can't think for the life of me when or where I read it. Maybe inwards college? I did accept a scientific discipline fiction course of teaching inwards my finally semester. There was also the Arthurian literature course of teaching I took inwards undergrad, but I don't mean value nosotros read it inwards that class. Anyway, what struck me every bit funny was that I had been looking frontward to starting over inwards C.S. Lewis's terminal new inwards his infinite trilogy, That Hideous Strength . And the argue for this? I remember...