...Christie Craig commented on my blog!!! I feel recognized by royalty! There is some kind of awe I feel for authors who have a deft hand at combining humor, romance, a touch of suspense and even a flash of the paranormal. When I first discovered Christie Craig's books the library already owned 3-4 of them yet I had not tried any. Being the paperback romance queen of the library you would think that I had read at least one of each author but alas there are too many books and too many authors so I grab author's I know and titles that catch my attention.
That's what caught my attention with Craig's book "Weddings Can be Murder". As an almost 40 year old 'spinster' weddings are never something I enjoy and only go if they are close family or lifetime friends so I thought this book was right up my alley. Needless to say within 2 weeks I had checked out and read every Christie Craig book our library had and submitted order recommendations for those we didn't. Even her foray into YA lit under the name C.C. Hunter was a great teen paranormal story.
So all of this gushing and you are probably wondering why she posted on my blog to begin with...in an ever widen hope of winning something cool I entered a contest on an awesome blog: killerfictionwriters.blogspot.com which has some of the funniest authors in the mystery/romance genre that I've read and I actually won!!!! My life once again is good. BTW one of the prizes I won was a $10 B&N gift card and if you read my last post you know I just bought a nook. E-books here I come!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
My foray into technology...
...keeps costing me money. Living in the boondocks (It would be nicer if there really was a lake with a dock) makes keeping up with technology difficult. I have to bring my laptop to work every time I need to update or download something and can't access anything at home.
The TV is filled with ads for Droids, iPads, Blackberry Playbooks, and various other techno devices that are suppose to be the 'must haves' of the techno world. I really was thinking seriously about purchasing some type of tablet device but without Internet access at home I would be in the same situation as I am with my laptop. So I start looking into the 3G and 4G options. The problem, you have to have a service provider agreement to access these features. Once again I live in the boondocks and service providers are extremely limited. We can only get access with our current cellphones because we invested in a booster antenna to reach a service tower. Now a few months ago high speed Internet became available in my hometown through our phone company. The caveat, you must live within 2 miles of their service building/hub. I live 8 miles!
So what do I go and do this week. I buy a nook from Barnes and Noble. It's not 3G but it is Wi-Fi so I can bring it to work and load it up with ebooks from the library or if I must keep from B&N. I have previously looked at Kindle but I wanted something that I could access the Internet with not just read books. Kindle is also been a very proprietorial reader in that the only things you could read on it were books you buy from Amazon.com. That is changing this year as they are going to make their Kindle formatting available through library ebook lending sites like Overdrive.com. This will make people with Kindles happy but it still didn't offer what I wanted so I went with the nook color and by next week I should know if it was money well spent or more money wasted.
The TV is filled with ads for Droids, iPads, Blackberry Playbooks, and various other techno devices that are suppose to be the 'must haves' of the techno world. I really was thinking seriously about purchasing some type of tablet device but without Internet access at home I would be in the same situation as I am with my laptop. So I start looking into the 3G and 4G options. The problem, you have to have a service provider agreement to access these features. Once again I live in the boondocks and service providers are extremely limited. We can only get access with our current cellphones because we invested in a booster antenna to reach a service tower. Now a few months ago high speed Internet became available in my hometown through our phone company. The caveat, you must live within 2 miles of their service building/hub. I live 8 miles!
So what do I go and do this week. I buy a nook from Barnes and Noble. It's not 3G but it is Wi-Fi so I can bring it to work and load it up with ebooks from the library or if I must keep from B&N. I have previously looked at Kindle but I wanted something that I could access the Internet with not just read books. Kindle is also been a very proprietorial reader in that the only things you could read on it were books you buy from Amazon.com. That is changing this year as they are going to make their Kindle formatting available through library ebook lending sites like Overdrive.com. This will make people with Kindles happy but it still didn't offer what I wanted so I went with the nook color and by next week I should know if it was money well spent or more money wasted.
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