Reading List Update

Books I've read since last update:

• The Film Club by David Gilmour (2008) (read on Kindle 5/11/08 ****)
• Escape by Carolyn Jessup and Laura Palmer (2007) 432 pages (read on Kindle 5/12/08)
• Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope (1861) chapters 51-56 (read 5/12/08)
• The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom by Martin Amis (2008) 224 pages (read 5/13/08 ***)
• Sonnets 52-54 by William Shakespeare (read 5/14/08)
• The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell (1955) 214 pages (read 5/16/08 ****)
• The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby (2008) 384 pages (read on Kindle 5/17/08 ****)
• Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope (1861) chapters 57-62 (read 5/18/08)
• Sonnets 55-57 by William Shakespeare (read 5/19/08)

Books I've been reading since last update:

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (The Arden Shakespeare) edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones () 488 pages
• The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler (1997) 672 pages
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (1988) 1064 pages
• Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, volume 3) by Robert Caro (2002) 1167 pages
• Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South by Thomas F Schaller (2006) 336 pages
• And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander (2006) 336 pages, Kindle
• Careless in Red by Elizabeth George (2008) 1024 pages, Kindle
• The Mind of the South by W J Cash (1941) 444 pages
• Swann's Way (The Remembrance of Things Past #1) by Marcel Proust (1913) 462 pages, Kindle
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (2003) 655 pages

Comments

[SFP]

Mary, I almost bought the Susan Jacoby for my Kindle, but decided I might be happier with it in paper after I perused a copy in the bookstore and saw how extensive the index was. Have you noticed how the Kindle handles indices? I'm assuming it doesn't provide direct links, that the user would have to do a word search, but I don't know for sure. As you can gather, I'm still doing the most basic stuff with mine. . .

[Mary]

The Kindle ignores the index in most books. I guess they figure you can search on the word or name you want. That's not as convenient as having a written index but it does work.

Unfortunately, Kindle hasn't figured out how to let you search in only a single book and so when you search you get hits from all the books you have on the Kindle.

md

[Nan]

I've just bought The Film Club today for one of the Canadian Book Challenge books. It sounds great, and I was pleased to see all your stars. You've been reading some really long books!!

[Mary]

I enjoyed The Film Club and learned a lot from it. As Fay at Historical/Present says: Homeschooling!

md