Amazon Kindle discussion

Technically I'm getting a Kindle for Christmas, but I'm reading The Martian on Kindle for PC.

Adrian wrote: "Technically I'm getting a Kindle for Christmas, but I'm reading The Martian on Kindle for PC."

A wonderful book, I liked so much, for the amount of details, but especially for the main character, a funny man.

Andrew wrote: "Adrian wrote: "Technically I'm getting a Kindle for Christmas, but I'm reading The Martian on Kindle for PC."

A wonderful book, I liked so much, for the amount of details, but espe..."

I'm about halfway through and I totally agree.

I am reading and enjoying it so far.

cr: (nominee in gr choice awards)

What a story! Imagine being STUCK in a girl's body with boobs and periods when you're really a guy! YIKES!

5★ for Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some, the memoir by Chris Edwards about how he changed his life.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm probably only going to be able to one kindle book this month. I'm getting ready to start Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed.

Dracula
by Bram Stoker

Aussie politics - Were the stakes too high for the Liberal Party's The Turnbull Gamble? Might they have shot themselves in the foot?

Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen (whom you might know from Sky News) have picked over the bones of the change of Prime Minister and the following campaign and election.

5★ - My review, with a bunch of quotes and anecdotes:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Susanne wrote: "I'm probably only going to be able to one kindle book this month. I'm getting ready to start Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed."

That's one that's interested me. Hope it's good, Susanne!

Enjoyed this one a lot - The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam, a good author and a Melbourne palliative care nurse, which makes this story even more believable.

The proposition is that assisted suicide (for painful terminal cancer and the like) is legal, and Evan is an assistant.

Good story, colourful people and more to the story than that.
My review (4.5★)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This year's Man Booker Prize winner, The Sellout by American Paul Beatty is certainly one from left field. I started it, got stuck, quit. Started it again and loved it.
4.5★

You've got to appreciate both the absurd story and the even more absurd situation the world finds itself in which makes this story necessary.

Is apartheid a cure for racism? WHAT!? (It IS satire, after all.)
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Another book that touches on racism, where the whites are getting more and more uncomfortable in South Africa.

Summertime

It's a fictionalised biography of the supposedly 'late' John Coetzee, written by Nobel Prize-winning and twice Booker winner J.M. Coetzee, formerly South African, now Aussie and very much alive in South Australia, as far as I know.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished ~

Loved the writing but got annoyed at the extra people and chapters. Selfishly wanted more of the 'main' story in Idaho.

This is the first novel for Emily Ruskovich, and she's a terrific writer, so I look forward to more from her.

3.5★ because I was annoyed by all those people.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I love spooky house stories, or houses with a history, and just started this one ~

also interested in~
and~

Going to start~

I'm about halfway through The Last Days of Night, which is about a feud between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over the patent for the electric light bulb.

Interesting so far - written as a novel.

5★ for the novel The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore, a fascinating historical 'faction' about the battle of the giants, Edison and Westinghouse.

Factual background with entertaining imagined relationships and romance.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I loved this one! Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

5★ for the Letter Library which has inspired a real ('virtual') Letter Library.

I loved the teens, the people, and the Howling Books Bookshop.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm new here ... I only read kindle books ... excited to see what others read from kindles

I'm reading two books on my kindle right now, and I'm hoping to finish them by the end of the month.
1) The Sisters Brothers
2) Fourth of July Creek

Sounds good. Some good recommendations

I'm reading A Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans. It's good so far - a true story about a wild wolf that befriended the town of Juneau and its canine members. I'm learning a lot about wolves and the controversy surrounding them.

Hi all. New here. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone is reading. I usually read a book on Kindle and listen to an audiobook. Currently I'm reading A Time of Torment, the last so far of the Charlie Parker Series by John Connolly and I am listening to The Last Minute, the second in the Sam Capra Series by Jeff Abbott.

Just Babies: The Origins of Good or Evil, by Yale's researcher Paul Bloom on social darwinism, anthropology and ethics

I finished The Sisters Brothers (yay!). Now, to meet my book challenge for the year, I need to finish Fourth of July Creek.

And I know it's not a book, but I'm also reading my Entertainment Weekly subscription on my Kindle (of course to look up their book recommendations).

On a roll - three 5★ books in a row, I think. The latest is Nicolas Rothwell's book of essays, Quicksilver.

He knows whereof he speaks, and he speaks well about European art, Russian literature, Australian Aboriginal art and history, and the growing interest in Australia's 'real' history.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just read my first James Lee Burke, and I'm sure it won't be my last.

He sure can write! This is one of his latest, I think, The Jealous Kind, which paints quite a picture of 1952 Houston teens and crims.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A couple of days ago I fnished Carmilla and now I'm reading Ancient Affliction. A good story and easy to read.

Quirky novel about young girl who tries to earn a living in what was a real exotic dancer club, Market Street Cinema in San Francisco.

The author, Michele Machado has done a good job of describing what it was like without it being erotica.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Superb, perfect debut novel by Aussie author Jane Harper - The Dry. I'd give it 10 stars if I could.

Country Victoria, drought, mysteries, memories - WOW!
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It's hard to believe Trevor Noah, the well-known comedian and presenter of The Daily show (used to be Jon Stewart's), had such a scary upbringing in apartheid South Africa. Everybody had a tribe . . . except him.

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

4.5★
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished a debut by Aussie author Anna Snoekstra.

Only Daughter is about a young woman impersonating a girl who disappeared in Canberra many years earlier.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

LOVED To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey, whose first book, The Snow Child, made the short list for the Pulitzer Prize. I haven't read it yet, but after having read this, I sure will!

This one is a solid 5★ and it has a gorgeous cover.


My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "It's hard to believe Trevor Noah, the well-known comedian and presenter of The Daily show (used to be Jon Stewart's), had such a scary upbringing in apartheid South Africa. Everyb..."

I am listening to this on audiobook, and his narration really makes it special. Great story so far.

I'm reading Storm Siren by Mary Weber

Kristie wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "It's hard to believe Trevor Noah, the well-known comedian and presenter of The Daily show (used to be Jon Stewart's), had such a scary upbringing in apart..."

Kristie, I reckon it would be even more moving listening to him tell the story. There's a lot that's funny, but an awful lot that's harrowing, to say the least!

There seems to be renewed interest in Anthony Trollope's works, so I read a book of six of his short stories, Selected Short Stories.

I like short stories and had never read Trollope. Can't say I was crazy about these, but he did have a way with words, so I quoted some bits I liked. I think fans of Jane Austen will probably enjoy Trollope.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm reading The Shadow of the Wind and Zer0es.

I've finished Ancient Affliction a good scientific-supernatural horror, with a good pace. Now I'm reading The Sands of Mars, a book by Arthur C. Clarke that I didn't know. The main theme of the story is the colonization of Mars, with a focus on the settlers, their fight for build a new world and the difficulties they found.

Just finished the wonderful time-slip-romance~

and now reading.....



I got both with Kindle Unlimited subscription.♥♥♥

Next up for my Kindle~

and~

Hello Everyone,

I am currently reading "The 259 Conjecture" by Brian Robinson (new author) I'm on chapter 19. This book is a real page-turner. A book not to be missed if you are looking for something fresh and new.

This book blends fiction with today's world.
Search here or Amazon for the full Description.

Description

Sam Fisher was a brilliant mathematician and displayed many of the attributes a genius might. But his view of mathematics was unorthodox. Mathematics for him was not just a way of finding answers or resolving problems. Mathematics was a journey of discovery.

Just finished the excellent, and highly recommended~

and just started...

I finished - GASP! - Aussie author Steve Toltz's enormous book A Fraction of the Whole.

Great writing (short list for 2008 Man Booker Prize) , but by golly it's long. I did include a lot of quotes so you can see what a good writer he is.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Oh golly, I loved this one! Short and almost perfect. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson is so full, it's hard to believe it isn't longer.

Young black girl in Brooklyn - doesn't begin to describe it.

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Almost finished with , Great Read.... Highly Recommend!!

I finally finished Zer0es! It turned out to be more sci-fi than reality...at least I hope it's sci-fi because it would be spooky if they are able to do that. Of course I know there is some work going on between man/machine with people who are paralyzed, but this was on a WHOLE other level.

Now I'm going to finish The Shadow of the Wind (I really, really am), and then I get to start on Homegoing

I'm reading and

Susanne wrote: "I finally finished Zer0es! It
Now I'm going to finish The Shadow of the Wind (I really am), and then I get to start on Homegoing..."

Susanne, I've got this rising to the top of my TBR list, too. I've seen some mixed reviews, many that love it and some that just don't. So I'm looking forward to Homegoing to see what all the fuss is about! :)