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Showing posts with label The Summer withoug men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Summer withoug men. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Are you reading more?

Am I the only one who is buying MORE books? The publishing industry laments the downturn in sales; reading is supposed to be in decline, at least deep book-type reading is; and writers are being screwed because there is no market, supposedly...
This morning I heard a review of The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt on a podcast of our fabulous Australian Book Show and immediately downloaded it onto my iPad. I am already half way through this examination of women's lives in relation to men. Many points intersect with my life but wait, a review will come later.
And this profligate book buying is not unusual in my household! Every time someone suggests a book to me I check it out on Amazon and if I like the look of it I download it. Sometimes they are duds of course, but because they are cheaper than hard copies it doesn't hurt so much to put them down. ( I am way too old to waste precious reading time on books I don't enjoy/ understand/ respect!)
Maybe this is just another aspect of my impulsive nature. Or perhaps it is a result of a life of deprived access to book shops. I have lived most of my life in the bush over 100 miles from the nearest book shop and dependant on one or two book buying binges a year to keep me alive.
At the moment I have 3 e-books and 1 real one on the go. How about you?