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You know, going by that thinking, it would soon be apparent that we don't need printed newspapers. If you can take a kindle to the john, then you can certainly have newspapers delivered in e-ink. Just a thought. If they think this way, they are endangering their own business. Cutting down...

Me too. It's outrageous to price new books more than $20! It really makes you think twice if you want to get it or not. For me, my reading stack at home is composed of 2nd hand books. I am not really a book junkie, you know like those fans who lined up for Harry Potter books outside of BNs

I have two signed books. One of them is Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club, and I found this in an antiquarian bookshelf selling for $1.

I was an associate editor in a past life. I reviewed submissions and wrote evaluations on the books. Basically I filtered the manuscripts coming into the publisher and put forth only the best works to the managing editor. It's not as glamorous as you think. Sometimes there are works that are...

On the throne with a cigarettes in hand, reading through Morisson or Murakami and at the same time looking at all the crushed and wet cigarette butts on the bathroom floor.

OOOhhh... a lot... Eat Pray Love, An English-Chinese Dictionary of Love and Saving Fish from Drowning. As you can see, I've recently been engulfed in a flurry of books that had more feminine voices.

Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

A Fine Balance is a great tearjerker, but it doesn't leave you depressed, at least not for me. Mine is Kite Runner... with all the people he could have connected with, but didn't. He was basically a very lonely protagonist even with all the people around him. Now that is sad.

Back to the topic :) Mine is Grisham and Anne Rice. I think that Rice paints poignant imagery and it helps that her characters are so sexual and sensual that it leaves you with a certain impression that you can't shake. Grisham, well, his endings suck, but he can tell a great story.

The Plain Truths of Religion, Gareth Wilson (am Catholic, yet I love atheism books!) 2 books of short stories by Haruki Murakami