Jessica Names My Kindle!
Wouldn’t you know that my DD rushed to the rescue and named my precious Kindle. Her name choice and mine…to my utter delight is: Stella.
So appropriate since Jess says it’s a derivative of “Storyteller…a wise new invention” She likens the Kindle to ancient medieval troubadors who travelled the roadways, sitting by firesides, singing and telling news and legends through stories and poems. Since the Kindle is actually our new Century’s form of the ancient storyteller…I loved this analogy.
”Stella” she is! And, Jessica gets a free book of her choice, as well as a gift bag of surprises!
My Kindle Is Coming on Tuesday!!
Kindle will afford me the opportunity to download in minutes books such as “The Magnificient Ambersons,” which I’m reading with my Pulitzer Prize Reading Group…and which I really don’t want to own for my library…for pennies on the dollar. Older books and classics, paperbacks and such are as low in cost as $1.99! New and best-selling hardbacks are $9.99. And, I think I’m going to love the accessibility of the Kindle when I’m stuck waiting places: airports, doctor’s offices, for my husband…. you know the drill.
So, I’ve been browsing Amazon to see what my first downloads will be and I’ve come up with this, my virgin list: (I’m really excited…sort of like giving birth or something!! LOL)
1) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
2) A Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3) Passing by Nella Larsen
4) Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
5) Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
6) Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
7) The Magnificient Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
8) The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
9) The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig
10) Stumbling Into Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
I feel like naming my Kindle, so I’m hoping you will help me with that. For those who contribute to the name and whose name I end up using all or a part of…I will send a book of your choice, plus some surprise goodies!
So, please post your votes for my dear Kindle’s name below. BTW, the little gizmo has storage/its own library for several hundreds of books, and “cards” for more. Can’t wait to get it in my hands to read with!
Deb/Bookish Dame
A Trip to Bountiful!
I love a trek to the bookstore. I call it a trip to Bountiful, don’t you? Tonight, I decided to venture into the Psychology section, which is a new place for me….or at least one I haven’t visited for a while. I started to find a book on Sigmond Freud, then realized I had already read and owned the classic volume on his life and writings. So, my eyes fell to the lower shelf and I found this title:
The Art of Seduction
by Robert Greene
Here are some intriguing notes from the back cover:
“Get what you want by manipulating everyone’s greatest weakness: the desire for pleasure. Seduction is the most subtle, elusive and effective form of power. It’s as evident in John F. Kennedy’s hold over the masses as it is in Cleopatra’s hold over Antony. … The Art of Seduction takes us through the characters and qualities of the ten archetypal figures of seduction (including the Siren, the Ideal Lover, the Dandy, the Natural, the Charismatic, and the Star) and the 24 maneuvers by which anyone can overcome a victim’s futile resistance to the practice of this devastating and timeless art form.”
Wow! I had to have this one!! I’ll let you know how it is when I get a chance to read some of it. Gotta go try it!!
