Just like Christmas?

I arrived home on Friday evening, having picked F up from the airport, to find a stack of goodies that had come in the post.

First there was an eBook reader that I had bought at a discount. This is to stop what happened during the summer where I was left for almost a week without a book. In future, I shall have books wherever I am (in theory). It’s taken me most of the weekend to set it up but now I have one book already on and I shall look for more in the coming weeks.

There were also a number of (real) books that I had ordered. Having finished Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, I am now ready for the next one which is a choice between:
The Tenth Chamber – Glenn Cooper, the third in the series;
The Weekend – Peter Cameron, who I saw this year at the Mantova Festivaletteratura;
The Haunting Of Hill House – Shirley Jackson;
Maddaddam – Margaret Atwood, the third in the series.

I also received a calendar for next year. This, you might think, is not so special except that the first photograph (for January) was taken by Best Mate’s eldest daughter, so rather special.

The weather is quite crap now. It’s much cooler and we had a lot of rain overnight although, in spite of the forecast, it hasn’t been raining all day.

All made up for by the fact that Friday night almost seemed like Christmas :-)

4 thoughts on “Just like Christmas?

  1. If I may, be careful with the ebook reader! I’ve spent lots of money because it’s TOO easy to buy books… there’s no need to go the bookstore anymore!
    Let me know how it goes. I like my kindle and I read many e-books, however, I miss the paper sometimes I feel the urge to touch a “real” book, if you can see what I mean.
    With Nesbo’s books, for instance, I bought and read The Snowman (e-book) and then I really wanted to buy the paper version of “The Leopard”.
    ps. I really like P. Cameron and I read The Weekend. I liked it a lot.

    • It’s OK. I just don’t feel good about paying for something that I don’t physically have – so I won’t be buying that many. I’ll use Smashwords to start and then we’ll see.

      On the other hand, since the holidays, I’ve bought about 8 books (real ones). You can’t beat the smell and touch of a new book :-)

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