Created a category in the Kindle Touch called “Free eBooks I have READ”.

These books I have mostly found through the following two sites:

• http://www.pixelofink.com
• http://ereadernewstoday.com/category/free-kindle-books/

I’ve found that mysteries, particularly thrillers, read better than other categories on the Kindle.

The Good: 

• one can change the size of the font… if you have bad eyesight this is a big plus.
• you can carry  a lot of books at one time without hurting your back

The Bad:

• Organizing of books on the Kindle is minimal and doesn’t hold across all the apps on which you might read them.  The effect of this is that you really won’t like to have hundreds of books on your Kindle.
• You can’t have multiple books open at once for comparison.
• You don’t really own the books so you can’t resell them.

Cattitude by Edie Ramer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great fun story. Kept me wondering how it could work out until the very end.
To quote:

It’s all in the Cattitude…After Belle the cat switches bodies with a psychic on the run from a murderer, she wants her perfect cat body back instead of this furless human one. But she doesn’t count on falling in love with her former owner. Or that a CEO and a beauty queen want to use up her nine lives. Now is her chance to prove anything a human can do, a cat can do better.”Cattitude is a magical tale that you won’t soon forget. Edie Ramer has a writing voice that charms, and she pulls the reader right into Belle’s amazing world.” -Cynthia Eden, author of Deadly Fear and I’ll be Slaying You
If you REALLY like cats, this is the story for you.

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Cattitude by Edie Ramer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great fun story. Kept me wondering how it could work out until the very end.

If you REALLY like cats, this is the story for you.



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The Unseen by Alexandra Sokoloff

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great fantasy/thriller based on the question “Whatever happened to Dr. J.B. Rhine’s parapsychology research?”

Takes place on and about Duke University & Durham NC. In the Psychology Department at Duke. Fairly realistic. Young female PhD starting on a tenure track position, after having a horrible breakup with her fiancee in California.

[one thing: nowhere in the book or notes is there mention of the fact that Rhine's data was fudged, though not necessarily by Dr. Rhine himself!]

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How did I miss this?   Mr. Hoban died today… and it appears I would like lots of his writings.

So… now I’m looking.

The Lost Army of Cambyses by Paul Sussman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a great acheological mystery/adventure.

If you like chasing a mystery through the deserts of Egypt you are going to like this book.

It is a constant flow of plot twists and surprises right up to the very end.

I believe I must have read this when it came out (2002, I think)… there were little twinges of deja-vu, but it was worth reading again.

Almost everything is not what it appears to be.



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The Dark Streets: A Jack Liffey Mystery by John Shannon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Great story. Jack Liffey is a great anti-hero. He tries. And succeeds in spite of himself.

This story takes place (as always with Jack Liffey) in Los Angeles. He is hired to find the missing 18 yr old daughter of a Korean immigrant family. So we learn something about the modern history of Korea, WWII, and Japan. Also more regarding gangs in L.A.

As well as the wonders of the Patriot Act and security “contractors”.

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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Ok. If you like witches and vampires and daemons, you’ll love this book.

But me, not so much. Sure this book is a great achievement of writing & language, but.

I’ve really had enough of secret societies. And witches. And especially of vampires.

At least the book does not turn into "just" a vampire novel, thanks to great writing. But still there really are enough vampire books already.

The fantasy middle ages is not a place where I enjoy to be, though this moves it (sort of) to the present.

Two more days of my life, gone.





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A Hole in the Universe by Mary McGarry Morris

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I can tell by reading the first few pages, then the rest of chapter 1 that this is going to be a GOOD book!

[UPDATE]
It was a great read. All about surviving the urban war zone.
[/UPDATE]

Why? Because the main character is interesting, a big "Loomer" of a man who was imprisoned for murdering a young woman before he was out of public school.

The story begins with him going for a job interview in his first week out of prison where he had been for 25 years. His brother had set up this interview for Loomer, and loomer just wanted to go somewhere and be alone.

It did not go well. He just wanted a stockboy job at the local grocery store in his childhood home neighborhood (which has turned into a slum war zone in the 25 years of Loomer’s imprisonment), and his brother wanted Loomer to have a "real" job.

That’s just the first chapter, and that’s where I stopped. I’ll let you know if the book keeps up in that fast moving way.






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The Passage by Justin Cronin

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

766 pages of boring words.



I read 4 or 5 pages, skimmed a ways. Gave up.



Nothing happened. Nothing was clear. Nothing to keep me interested.



No character became "real" to me.



Maybe this says more about me than the book, BUT…. I don’t think so.



The author is capable of churning out page after page of words, I’ll give him that.



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