Category Archives: Reading

I’m currently taking a break from Trollope and reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch. It is, by current standards, a very leisurely book—not as maddeningly slow as those written by obviously-paid-by-the-word Trollope, but still not a good read for the impatient. I … Continue reading →

Readers who know me, or who have followed this blog, will know that, although I read a lot, I rarely buy books. For printed books, there is the library. For my Kindle, I look for free books, and that has … Continue reading →

In a previous post, I commented on the extreme length of Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, which I was reading on my Kindle. As it turned out, it was not as long as I had thought. My husband had started reading it … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I wrote about what I’m currently reading while I tread the mill. I usually reserve my Kindle for treadmill reading, but, in anticipation of a ten-day vacation, half of it spent on planes and trains, … Continue reading →

My current Kindle/gym reading is Letters from Alabama, by Philip Henry Gosse. I’m not sure what inspired me to download this title, but I’m finding it mostly pretty interesting reading, even though it is very poorly formatted for Kindle, which … Continue reading →