Ding Dong, The Renters Gone!!

The evil tenants finally vacated our house!!

[now to get them to pay...]

Re-Kindling

Last summer I bought a Kindle to bring with me here to Dominica.  I had such high expectations of sitting on the beach, reading to my hearts content.  What I didn't anticipate was the cost of books!  Who can afford to pay $10-12 every time they want to read a new book?  The cost was going to add up too quickly, so I tucked my Kindle away and stuck with borrowed books.

Then, yesterday, I found a program called Calibre.  Calibre is an e-book syncing program that lets you store your books, convert books from one file type to another, and then sync them to any e-reading device.  I was doubtful, but it worked!

 

Those with a little imagination and uTorrent can connect the dots on where these new books all came from.  

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

I realize that I’m behind the crowd with reading this book, but I think it’s interesting that I started reading it on the day Osama bin Laden was captured and killed.  I wish I had read it earlier.  Everything about this fictional story of 2 remarkable women tugged at my heartstrings.  I was outraged at the men for their treatment of women and girls, and was so touched by the ending.  If you have never read a book about women of the Middle East, this is a great introduction.

Congrats!

Congratulations to Chelsea and the Horsley Home on their two new baby boys!!  Did you know that 1 in 33 births are to twins?  Check out this awesome Mother's Day infographic.

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

This book was not as good as The Other Boleyn Girl.   It seemed to drag at the end, going back and forth between the three women: Anne of Cleves, Jane Boleyn and Katherine Howard.  Although I loved finding out what happened to King Henry’s next wives, the novel itself fell short for me.