I sooo agree with you!!! That is how I feel about books too, I need to hold a book in my hands to read it and feel it, smell it.......no ereader books for me!
I know how you feel about books, Caren... but ironically, circumstances forced me to join the e-revolution several years ago. (First, I started doing a LOT of traveling, which made ebooks so much more practical. Later, when I picked up stakes and moved 2,000-plus miles by myself, it just wasn't feasible to take all my books with me, so I--somewhat tearfully--said goodbye to most of them, replacing the ones I missed most in e-versions.)
Growing up, I idolized Wonder Woman. She had it all--awesome strength and beauty, intelligence and kindness. To me, she was female perfection. Ever practical, I knew I’d never achieve that ideal (she was just fantasy, after all), but following her tireless quest to rid the world of evil and replace it with love and peace allowed me to envision a place and time in which women enjoyed real power and respect (and could fix problems without a lot of senseless bloodshed). It's never all about thrilling feats of derring-do, of course. There’s a bit of melancholy attached to any superhero story too-- sometimes a sense of loss, and always feelings of loneliness. Nothing comes without a price. Raymond Benson explores what it would be like to become an all-too-human superhero in his new book, The Black Stiletto . ✒ ~ ✒ ~ ✒ ~ ✒ ~ ✒ Martin Talbot is a just a regular Joe. Ordinary-looking, middle-aged, and divorced (with shared custody of an only daughter), he’s not the sort to inspire...
If you dug out your blender... threw in a whole bunch of Only Murders in the Building ... added a soupçon of Friends. .. a jigger or so of Cheers ... and a hearty dash of Mrs. Roper (from Three’s Company )... well, you might end up with something much like the delightful tipple that is Jo Nichols’ mystery novel, The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective . And if you did? Oh my, how sweet it would taste, going down... The elderly, caftan-wearing “Mrs. B” is the proud owner and landlady of a grouping of seven quaint cottages (one of which being her own domicile), in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. The cottages are a blast from the past—tiny, grouped intimately around a miniature courtyard—and constantly fighting off “progress”, in the form of fancy new multi-occupant buildings (the likes of which encroach upon all sides). Being just a short walk from the Pacific Ocean, though, means these little homes are veritable go...
By now—a quarter of the way through the 21 st century—we probably couldn’t survive without the internet. We use it for shopping. Keeping up with friends and family. Work. Job hunting. Looking for love. And finding answers to every “How do I fix this?” or “What do I do now?” question that pops into our heads. But it isn’t just a shopping mall/phone-and-snail-mail alternative/meeting place/encyclopedia. Because while it does draw us together, it also allows for anonymity... a murky, shadowy space where con artists, conspiracy theorists, and bullies converge. And sometimes, where maniacs come out to play. Thriller author Sara Driscoll’s latest, Shadow Play , looks at the downside of online. When physical therapist Krista agrees to be part of a weekly, live-streaming show offering relationship and life advice with her best friend, Hailey, it sounds like a fun hobby. After all,...
I sooo agree with you!!! That is how I feel about books too, I need to hold a book in my hands to read it and feel it, smell it.......no ereader books for me!
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel about books, Caren... but ironically, circumstances forced me to join the e-revolution several years ago. (First, I started doing a LOT of traveling, which made ebooks so much more practical. Later, when I picked up stakes and moved 2,000-plus miles by myself, it just wasn't feasible to take all my books with me, so I--somewhat tearfully--said goodbye to most of them, replacing the ones I missed most in e-versions.)
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