I was very dissapointed with this one. A HUGE Crichton fan, but I personally think it was a secret book he wrote for his own pleasure, never meant for publishing and he's probably turning in his grave.

Going Rogue is next on my list, and I am looking forward to it.

I am really enjoying Eat, Pray, Love. i was surprised at just how much I needed this exact book, at this exact moment in my life. Have you ever just read/listened to a book that fed you? This one is feeding me.

Just finished the lost symbol by Dan Brown. it was sort of a let down in the end. I expected more than the typical movie of the week plot in the end.

I am in love with books again, now that I can hear them!

I was rereading what I'd written earlier in this thread, and thought I should update something about the Kindle.

They now have a Kindle for PC program (free download) that you can put onto a Windows computer and use that to read Kindle books.

I've got it on one of my computers, and really like it. Came in handy when the battery died on my Kindle1 awhile back and I wanted to read my book and couldnt get the Kindle1 to stay on even with the power cord plugged in. (problem fixed itself once it got a good charging)

The program is really nice, the text can be made fairly huge. I wish I could use a text-to-speech program with it, but so far I havent been able to find any info about any TTS programs that are compatible with it.

I got a Kindle 2 for Christmas, and love the fact that it has the text-to-speech program on it. I've used that a couple of times, it's not quite as nice a TTS program as the one that I have on my computers, but it's do-able.

The K2 is also lighter than the Kindle 1, so I like that aspect. Stupid numb hand gets tired easily sometimes (that's putting a crimp in my crochet and knitting activities too)

Right now, aside from some Stargate fan fiction that I've gotten on the internet that I've emailed to the Kindle, I've been reading the complete works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...trying to at least... (still on the first book) I'm a big fan of the movies that Basil Rathbone was in, so reading the books is kind of fun. I just imagine Basil Rathbone as Holmes...(havent seen the new movie yet that has Robert Downey Jr in it)

I think I read Hound of the Baskervilles when I was younger, but I dont remember if I ever finished it. That's probably the only one I ever read, so it's kind of neat to be reading them now. I'm probably appreciating the stories more now than I would have when I was younger.

I'm probably going to skip ahead to Baskervilles once I'm done with the first book. Either that or I'll read The Final Problem (that's the one with Moriarty)

I'm at various stages of a few books... All very good but I have poor concentration.

The Shack
The Soloist
The Blind Side

Recommend all of them... the last two were made into movies... but I haven't seen them.

Loved the soloist! awesome movie too.

Adobe has a digital book reader for FREE! to download to your computer. I get free download audio books from the NH libraries, and its awesome! alot of books from the library can be downloaded in printed form for free too. the Adobe digital book reader is great! it will even read the book for you too!

http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

check it out!

I do the same thing - start a bunch of books at the same time. I have 2 Dean Koontz and a Stephen King open now. Under the Dome is really good, but while I favor those 1000 plus page type things, it really is too heavy (physically).

I must be a little ADD in my old age. I'm also in the middle of a sweater, just finished 2 scarfs and started another, and cutting sewing patterns. Just trying to survive the cabin fever.

Just read "South of Broad" by Pat Conroy; really enjoyed it. I am currently reading three books. I always have one in my car that I can read if I am eating out alone or at appointments. The best of the three is "True Blue" by David Baldacci. For bookclub next month we are reading, "American Wife," by Curtis Sittenfeld, which is a fictional account of a woman married to politician. It is based on Laura bush and the Bush family. I really like it and found it to be rather amusing, but if you are a Bush fan I would not really recommend it.

Knitting or crochet? I've got about 5 or 6 scarves that I'm knitting, and I'm crocheting two or three afghans.

I read at my computer a lot while I'm crocheting and knitting.

Crochet. I tried to knit, but no way. I can nver remember, which way did I just go? Dh came in and asked how I was doing with it, I said not too well. He said - "Well, you still have both your eyes, that's better than I thought you'd do, so that's pretty good!" And I put the needles down, lol

Granddaughter saw my big Under the Dome sitting on the table and wanted me to read some to her. So I picked it up and started...

"No pictures of dinosaurs?" she asks.

"Nope, no pictures, just words," I said. Read a little more.

"I think I wanna read Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) instead," she said.

I never do much more than scarves with knitting, and really nothing more than knit and purl ribbing, or just plain garter stitch. I've tried to knit cables, and I cant never remember what row I've just done, and still, after three years of knitting, cant tell which side is purl and which side is knit.

At least with crochet, I've been crocheting since I was 6yrs old and it's a heck of a lot easier than knitting. If I want to get something crocheted within a week, I can do that...as long as my hands cooperate.