A very busy day today, 11 hours briefing suppliers on new products, checking details with customers, negotiating on a personal deal, brewery admin, picking Ben up from school, taking him to band practise, watching the Elite League Speedway final (good luck Poole Pirates in the second leg on wednesday), and then squeezing in the photo I had planned for today.
When the cricket season is over, I try to catch up on my reading. I am addicted to many things, and buying books is one. The day I buy a Kindle will be a sad one, because there is something special about the feel and smell of a book. Until a Kindle has the feel of paper and the smell of paper, they aren't for me.
This is just a small section of the planned reading pile for this winter. A horse racing biography, an irreverent look at the history of cricket, 3 Scandinavian and 1 Italian crime thrillers, a Graham Greene, a deep and philosophical German novel, a book about why the western economies are messed up and what to do about it, a memoir from the German front line in WW1, a book about temptation and loss, and a book in a box reissued after 30 years, about death, friendship and self analysis, where the chapters are unbound and other than the first and last chapters, can be read in any order.
Oh, my photo. Shot with off camera flash and processed as a colour negative to create white shadow.
@sugarmuser ...and I think you might have posted a pic of it? I think that is why I bought it, I like discovering new writers, otherwise it would all be Scandinavian crime and great British authors!
@seanoneill I love fantasy... I am head down, tail up, reading Brent Weeks second book of his Prism series at the moment. But we are in spring, so I read by the pool :)
@sugarmuser Lucky you!! My lads love Brent Weeks. Our heating isn't working, and the spare part for the boiler will not be here until wednesday, so it is challenging reading in bed at the moment!!!
I haven't read any of your books Sean & I pick up new titles from other 365 ers too. As for Kindles I know what you mean about the feel & smell of a proper book & I have lots of them in our house but I LOVE my Kindle too. I am sorry to say I go to the book shop & look at all the books but if it is a novel I go home & buy it on the Kindle. So easy to review, try a sample & buy a book in the middle of the night if you wish!! It would be the first thing almost I would save if the house was on fire!!!!!
@happypat Well good on you Pat. My kids both have them, but funnily have gravitated back to books over time. There are books all over our house as a consequence. I have 2 bookcases in my bedroom, one on the landing, 5 floor to ceilings in my office and one in each of the kids rooms, and still they are double stacked on the shelves!!
Sean, my girlfriend is a voracious book reader and she refuses to get a kindle - she agrees with you about the look, feel and smell of a book and how important those senses are to the reading experience. As for me, I was assigned 1000 pages of reading a night, three nights a week for my first year of law school and that pretty much did me in on reading for pleasure. Nice shot, btw!
You know, Sean, I have a Nook and an iPad. . .so I'll just let you know that I still ALWAYS have a "real" book on my bedside as well as all the electronic accesses! great shot. . .
That'll keep you going for a bit!! I also love my kindle but love books too, I use my kindle for 'paperback' reading!! Very clever shot, really pops out
@fannyb I am always suspicious of people using Kindles, I wonder what they are reading and think they don't want people to see the cover, so is it something that would offend common decency? Mind you, in our liberal culture that doesn't mean a lot does it?
Love this! I love "real" books. There is something about the actual action of turning the pages and the smell of them. Hope it gets you through the winter. Fantastic capture! :)
@seanoneill the new kindle called paperwhite has back lighting so you can keep on your woollen gloves in your freezing bedroom and read under the duvet.....sorted!!
Could not agree more. I've been reading a book on a tablet. I intended to take the tablet with me to the USA. Now, I consider taking paperbacks. There;s nothing that can beat the color, feel and smell of real books. I see you also like Scandinavian detectives?
@hjv I love them Hubregt. I read all the Wallander books years ago, and Nesbo and Larsson and am working my way through Sjowall and Wahloo, who are the original Scandicrime writers. I like dystopian books, so I love Ballard particularly. These though, have a gentle dystopia to them as the writers percieve the breakdown of Scandinavian culture and morés, but not as aggressively as Ballard and his kind.
Love to see what other people are reading. I love the feel of books too and prefer them, but we do have a kindle. I have a loads of books that I just pick up at boot sales or book sales and stack them up for the future!
Interesting reading matter Sean, the B S Johnson caught my eye immediately. I keep meaning to sink my teeth into something substantial, but the supply of decent Scandinavian crime novels seems inexhaustable.
@pictureitbig I'm just reading the end of The Bat. Yes it isn't as bleak as his other works, but I think this is his first book, and they have translated it out of order. I rarely get chance to watch TV, but should watch some of the Scandi dramas. I did watch Wallander and thought that it fitted the picture in my mind's eye almost perfectly, even though the Dogs of Riga should have set the scene for the whole series with is relationship with Baiba, and was completely left out! Sjowall and Wahloo are the godparents of this genre, and it is incredible to read books set in the 60s where the technology of today didn't exist!
@automaticslim I know what you mean. The Camilleri books are good too. You can't help but like the grumpy and slightly mad Italian policeman and his colleagues. Th BS Johnson has been on the pile for a couple of years. I am almost too scared to read it because of the profound affect it may have on me and the parallels to my own experiences. That said it is working its way inexorably towards the top.
Great shot Sean. There are two kindle users in this house, I'm not one of them though. My biggest argument for why a book is better than a kindle is that you can read a book at the beach without worrying it will get damaged by the sand.
Nice one Sean, share your love of books but I think my eyes and space will reluctantly send me the Kindle direction. Janet Turbull did a book shot the other day too, must try one before the end of the year.
October 22nd, 2012
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