{"id":1707,"date":"2011-06-23T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/23\/the-kindle-one-year-later"},"modified":"2011-06-23T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:52:00","slug":"the-kindle-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2011\/06\/23\/the-kindle-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle, one year later"},"content":{"rendered":"
Before I had a Kindle I wasn’t much of a reader.\u00a0 I read maybe 4 to 8 books a year. When I was given the Kindle after Jack was born<\/a>, it came with an unexpected gift – access to the books read by other family members.\u00a0 See, my gracious father set it up so that we all share his Amazon Kindle account.\u00a0 So whenever I finish one book, I can instantly start another with limited searching and possibly no additional purchase.\u00a0 Here is a categorical listing of what I have read on my Kindle so far (* indicates I recommend this book):<\/div>\n
\u00a0 <\/div>\n
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Murder Mysteries<\/u><\/div>\n
The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown<\/div>\n
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown<\/div>\n
*Angels & Demons – Dan Brown <\/div>\n
Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs<\/div>\n
The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson<\/div>\n
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson<\/div>\n
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson<\/div>\n
The Girl who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson<\/div>\n
Heat Wave – Richard Castle<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
YA Fiction (aka works by John Green)<\/u><\/div>\n
*An Abundance of Katherines – John Green<\/div>\n
Looking for Alaska – John Green<\/div>\n
Paper Towns – John Green <\/div>\n
*Will Grayson, Will Grayson \u2013 John Green<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Adult Fiction (Curiously, all from a slightly feminist slant)<\/u><\/div>\n

*A Rather Lovely Inheritance \u2013 C.A. Belmond<\/p>\n

The English American – Alison Larkin<\/div>\n
The Actor and the Housewife – Shannon Hale<\/div>\n
The Abstinence Teacher – Tom Perrotta<\/div>\n
The Weird Sisters \u2013 Eleanor Brown<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
YA Dystopian Thrillers<\/u><\/div>\n
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins<\/div>\n
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins<\/div>\n
*The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins<\/div>\n
*Divergent – Veronica Roth<\/div>\n
Matched – Ally Condie<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Funny Non-Fiction (aka my favorite genre)<\/u><\/div>\n
*Packing for Mars – Mary Roach<\/div>\n
*Stiff – Mary Roach (yes, I re-read it on Kindle)<\/div>\n
*Bossypants – Tina Fey<\/div>\n
*The Guinea Pig Diaries – AJ Jacobs<\/div>\n
Waiter Rant – Steve Dublanica<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
History\/Science<\/u><\/div>\n
*At Home – Bill Bryson<\/div>\n
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks<\/div>\n
The Disappearing Spoon – Sam Kean<\/div>\n
Outliers – Malcom Gladwell<\/div>\n
Assassination Vacation \u2013 Sarah Vowell<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
And to impress upon you the awesomeness of our shared Kindle Library:<\/div>\n
Books I started but didn’t finish<\/u><\/div>\n
Valiant – Holly Black<\/div>\n
An Irreverent Curiosity – David Farley<\/div>\n
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk – David Sedaris<\/div>\n
The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner<\/div>\n
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile \u2013 Gyles Brandreth<\/div>\n
American Gods \u2013 Neil Gaiman<\/div>\n
Bruno, Chief of Police \u2013 Martin Walker<\/div>\n
Neverwhere \u2013 Neil Gaiman<\/div>\n
God’s Secretaries \u2013 Adam Nicolson<\/div>\n
Cosmopolis \u2013 Don DeLillo<\/div>\n
The Hangman’s Daughter \u2013 Oliver Potzsch<\/div>\n
The Candy Shop War \u2013 Brandon Mull<\/div>\n
Sphinx’s Princess \u2013 Esther Friesner<\/div>\n
Little Bee \u2013 Chris Cleave<\/div>\n
Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper \u2013 Michael Reisman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

…Still leaving over 150 archived books in our collection I haven’t even looked at.\u00a0 But I’m not a total moocher.\u00a0 I sought out several of those above, and will soon be adding more:<\/p>\n

Books on my To Read list<\/u><\/div>\n
A Rather Curious Engagement – C.A. Belmond <\/div>\n
Nerd Do Well \u2013 Simon Pegg<\/div>\n
The Red Market – Scott Carney<\/div>\n
The Maze Runner \u2013 James Dashner<\/div>\n
The Redbreast \u2013 Jo Nesbo<\/div>\n
The World’s Greatest Stuntman \u2013 Vic Armstrong<\/div>\n
The Psychopath Test \u2013 Jon Ronson<\/div>\n
Some old Sherlock Holmes, because I’m becoming obsessed with the BBC modern series adaptation. \u00a0 <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
33 finished books of varying lengths.\u00a0 (Ben likes to point out that the books he reads are SO much longer than mine, that mine are itty bitty girly books \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 I’d say that’s a huge improvement over my old 4-8 books a year, wouldn’t you?\u00a0 But the scary thing is that I read only a fraction of what my sister can devour. \u00a0 Isn’t that right, Amanda? What’s your count for the past year?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I had a Kindle I wasn’t much of a reader.\u00a0 I read maybe 4 to 8 books a year. When I was given the Kindle after Jack was born, it came with an unexpected gift – access to the books read by other family members.\u00a0 See, my gracious father set it up so that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}