In case anyone is interested …
Popular Bookstore at Ikano Power Centre has a 50% Rebate table. A copy of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex had caught my eye and after picking it up, I looked around and saw the 50% Rebate sign.
Authors on the table included Ian McEwan, AS Byatt, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Pynchon, Muriel Spark, Tom Robbins, Chang-Rae Lee and others. I bought Annie Proulx’s That Old Ace in the Hole, Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street (which I’ve read before as a book on loan from that book rental shop in TTDI that has since closed down), and also Isabel Allende’s The House of The Spirits (finally, my own copy).
All these books piling up in my little apartment, where to begin? And that’s part of the problem. Too many choices, and I can’t pick one.
Actually, I’m reading Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel, a collection of stories by seven Irish authors, including Maeve Binchy. All the stories are located in Finbar’s Hotel and somewhat connected to one another (you see the main character of one story being mentioned in another story – that kind of connection). The book has given me the structure for an abandoned work-in-progress that I now know why it stalled.
I’ve also started reading Peter Straub and Stephen King’s The Talisman in ebook format. I’ve read it many years before but am reading it again as a prelude to the sequel Black House. I just finished Failure to Appear by J A Jance, also in ebook format.
I’m a big fan of ebook formats as I like the fact that I don’t have to lug heavy books on holiday but they are all in my little PDA. The screen on my PDA is great and I have no eye fatigue reading off it. I have a fairly large collection of ebooks, both licensed and *cough* un …
