In March, I focused on rereading some of my favorite books. I reread twenty-one books this month! It was a lovely indulgence, I think. Very nourishing. Very satisfying. It was great to reconnect with Sarah Miller’s Miss Spitfire, Lois Lowry’s The Giver, and Elizabeth Scott’s Bloom. Not to mention, Richard Peck’s The Teacher’s Funeral! And [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Audible Audiobooks for Kindle Goes Wireless
Posted by on March 31st, 2011
Most everybody has probably at least heard of Audible at this point. Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) has done a good job of promoting their services both as a general thing and in connection with the Kindle. Now, to make things even easier for fans of Kindle audio books, users should find themselves able to download their new acquisitions [...]
Book Review: Flights of Fancy by Dawn Huffaker
Posted by on March 30th, 2011
Flights of FancyDawn L. HuffakerLulu (October 15, 2009)978-0557089192 Flights of Fancy is a collection of poetry representing New Mexico poet Dawn Huffaker’s best work from the past twenty-five years. The author has divided the ninety or so selections into six chapters, or flights, as she calls them. Straight away it is apparent that Huffaker loves [...]
Mansfield Park
Posted by on March 30th, 2011
Mansfield Park. Jane Austen. 1814/1998. Norton. 520 pages. About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts [...]
4 More Dictionaries: German, French, Italian and Spanish
Posted by on March 30th, 2011
You asked and we listened… We are releasing 4 more translation dictionaries for Amazon Kindle: German-English translation dictionary with 336,620 words and word forms (conjugations, declensions, etc) French-English dictionary with 225,078 unique word forms Italian-English dictionary with 260,699 word forms Spanish-English dictionary with 568,977 words translated into English. All dictionaries can be set as Kindle [...]
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No Comments »Library Loot: Fifth Trip in March
Posted by on March 29th, 2011
New Loot: Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenThe Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan. Adapted by Robert Venditti.What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth Century England by Daniel PoolMurder at Mansfield Park by Lynn ShepherdOutside In by Maria V. SnyderWither by [...]
Nook Color Firmware Update Moves it from Kindle Competitor to iPad Competitor
Posted by on March 29th, 2011
Recent news regarding the Nook Color‘s new features should go a long way toward illustrating the direction that the mini-tablet is likely to take in the near future. While many have never viewed it as serious eReader competition for the Kindle, this seemed to be the hope that Barnes & Noble(NYSE:BKS) had for the device. [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Color, competitor, Firmware, from, iPad, Kindle, Moves, Nook, Update No Comments »Book Review: Congo Cobalt by Colin Boxall-Hunt
Posted by on March 28th, 2011
Congo CobaltColin Boxall-Huntlulu.com (July 30, 2010)978-1409248453184 pages Journey to Central Africa for action, adventure, excitement, and romance in Congo Cobalt by Colin Boxall-Hunt. Set in 1994, we meet Major Algernon Charles Nasty-Farting or “Warty.” Warty is a retired Royal Artillery and Infantry Officer with a plan; set up a Cobalt mining operation in the Katanga [...]
Warrior’s Rise Kindle Edition
Posted by on March 28th, 2011
Based on Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) description of Warrior’s Rise by LJ DeLeon, it sounds like a fascinating book for the Kindle. As a former member of the CIA, DeLeon has much more experience on a personal level with panorama and fantasy events than most. Such experience adds deeper value to the content of her books. [...]
Sunday Salon: Week In Review #13
Posted by on March 28th, 2011
What I Reviewed at Becky’s Book Reviews: Mansfield Park. Jane Austen. 1814/1998. Norton. 520 pages. A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel. Alan Bradley. 2011. Random House. 399 pages.Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller. Sarah Miller. 2007. Simon & Schuster. 240 pages. Cupid. Julius Lester. 2007. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 208 pages.Bloom. Elizabeth Scott. [...]
